Join us Friday, October 31, at 12p (PST) to learn more about Voter Choice Arizona and the benefits of final five voting.
Voter Choice Arizona is a non-partisan group of mostly volunteers with a mission of educating Arizona voters about how better ballots will improve elections, give them more voice and more choice, and lead to better outcomes for our state.
To learn more:
To learn more: https://voterchoicearizona.org/learn/ – Use this link to find basic information through our website, blogs and helpful videos.
To volunteer: https://nb.voterchoicearizona.org/volunteer – There are many ways to help bring about election reform.
To find Voter Choice Arizona events: https://nb.voterchoicearizona.org/calendar – Check out our calendar to find trainings, presentations, volunteer opportunities, and social events
To donate: https://voterchoicearizona.org/donate/
What is ranked choice voting? How does it work? Does it offer any benefits?
Join us on October 31 at noon (PST) for a conversation about ranked choice voting with Voter Choice Arizona.
Click here to register for this virtual presentation.
Learn more about Voter Choice Arizona, a non-partisan group of mostly volunteers donating their own time and financial support for essential tools to help Arizonans vote.
The battle over Proposition 137 to eliminate the judicial merit selection and give judges lifetime appointments subject not to the people but to increased legislative control, and the campaign to vote no on Supreme Court Justices Bolick and King has snagged another victim – the ethics system.
Arizona has a Code of Judicial Conduct and a Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee (JEAC) that does what it says , i.e. issues ethics advisories about judicial conduct. Never before has the Supreme Court overturned an advisory.
SO WHAT HAPPENED?
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We’re number one! We’re number one!
Great news, fellow Arizonans — decades of our GOP-led legislature’s effort to grift and gut AZ’s public schools have finally, fully paid off! We’ve achieved a truly rare status: Worst school system in the USofA!
That’s right, we beat out perennial winners, like Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi, to take home that top prize! Our state is now ranked not 48th, not 49th, not even 50th, but 51st in the nation for education.
But wait, you may be asking. How in the world could this happen?
Settle in and let me tell you a little story about the Republican legislature’s long-haul effort to get Arizona to the absolutely shameful spot we’re in today.
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This year’s ballot promises to be one of the longest ever. Are you ready for two pages packed with more than a dozen initiatives on crucial issues like abortion rights, immigration, employment, and even voting itself?
Secular AZ offers a number of resources to help you be informed at the ballot box.
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The election is just around the corner! Please join us on October 25 at noon for a conversation with Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services for the latest election update. More here: https://azcapitoltimes.com/
Click here to watch this presentation on Secular AZ’s YouTube channel.
Join us on September 20 at noon for a conversation with Victor Aronow of Vic’s Picks to talk about this year’s judicial elections. Here’s a link to Vic’s Picks for 2024.
Click here to watch this presentation on the Secular AZ YouTube channel.
Victor Aronow graduated from Boston College Law School in 1970 and was recruited to come to Phoenix on a Reginald Heber Fellowship, a program of the Johnson War on Poverty that was intended to breathe life into moribund community legal services programs that had basically been doing only small contracts and divorces. The Fellowship was for one year, and now, almost fifty five years later, he is still in Phoenix. He would like to move back to the East Coast, but can’t give up the daily laughs of Arizona politics from Jack Williams to Kari Lake. During his career, he has been a pro tem Phoenix City Court judge, the supervisor of the ASU Law School Civil Clinic, founder Radio Phoenix, unsuccessful candidate for state Senate, the first member of the National Lawyers Guild to invade Arizona, and in the interim, earned a Masters to Teach English as a Second Language which took him on many adventures and travels. He serves as a volunteer with the East Valley NAACP Legal Redress Committee, is a mentor for new law school graduates, and gives a big tip of the hat to Dianne Post, whom he admires not only for her politics, but her ceaseless energy in working for a better and more satisfying world for everyone.
Join us on September 13 at noon for a conversation with League of Women Voters to talk about this year’s ballot initiatives.
Click here to watch this presentation on the Secular AZ YouTube channel.
The Arizona League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization. They encourage informed and active participation in government and work to increase understanding of major public policy issues and influence public policy through education and advocacy.
Today’s speaker, is Pinny Sheoran, President of the LWV Arizona, President Elect of the LWV of Metro Phoenix.
Pinny provides leadership for LWV of Arizona, specializing in the areas of advocacy, including representing LWV Arizona as the designated volunteer lobbyists, Member since 2017. Retired as Faculty member of the Maricopa County Community College District. where she taught computer science. Fierce Advocate for PUBLIC FUNDING OF EDUCATION, FAIR REDISTRICTING , VOTING RIGHTS. Pinny is active in helping voters register and vote, she is a deputy registrar with the Maricopa County Election department and is a poll worker with the county elections department, serving as inspector at polling locations. She has lived in Arizona for over 45 years, and raised her children through Arizona public school systems.
Join us on September 6 at noon for a conversation with Voter Choice Arizona.
Click here to watch this presentation on Secular AZ’s YouTube channel.
Click here to learn more about Voter Choice Arizona, a non-partisan group of mostly volunteers donating their own time and financial support for essential tools to help Arizonans vote.
Today’s speaker, Mark Cable, has been a middle school teacher for 15 years, with 10 of those years teaching the We the People civics program to 8th grade Social Studies students. Mark has a B.S. in Business Administration from Northern Arizona University and a Master’s in Education from Arizona State University. Mark enjoys playing tennis and pickleball, and is excited to be a part of Voter Choice Arizona/ Better Ballot Arizona.
Why Mark supports Ranked Choice Voting: Mark spent 10 years teaching young people to be active citizens. He discussed the importance of making a well reasoned argument, and the importance of really listening in a respectful way to those who have a different point of view. His students can do this, but they are then faced with an elections system that rewards name calling, hate and fear mongering, and other forms of negative campaigning. How can we ask young people to not be apathetic, when they continuously feel like they are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils? We can and should do better.
