For years, Maricopa County, Arizona, voters have been forced to endure incompetent election administration from the locality’s top elections officials. So in 2024, they decided to do something about it.
During the Grand Canyon State’s July primaries, Maricopa voters ousted then-Recorder Stephen Richer, a self-professed Republican who often used his position to attack Arizonans concerned about the county’s inept election management and engaged in efforts to censor his political opponents. To take his place, voters nominated Republican Justin Heap, a then-Arizona Freedom Caucus member who ran on a platform of restoring “confidence” and transparency to Maricopa County elections.
With Arizona trending in Republicans’ favor and a Heap victory in the November contest likely, Maricopa County voters seemed all but poised to have someone oversee
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