Jen Fifield

Jen Fifield

Senior Reporter

Jen Fifield previously covered Maricopa County and Phoenix for The Arizona Republic, including the high-profile review of the county’s 2020 election. Prior to that, she covered politics and government for local newspapers in Maryland and state policy for Stateline, a news service run by The Pew Charitable Trusts. She has won several regional press awards in Arizona and Maryland for her investigative, feature, politics and education reporting. Jen is a Phoenix native and graduated from Arizona State University’s Cronkite School.

Secretary of State Adrian Fontes can’t threaten to exclude votes from a county that refuses to finalize results, a federal judge ruled, but he has other legal options.

The error put the eligibility of nearly 100,000 voters in limbo. The court said it would be too late — and unfair — to limit their rights now.

The record checks are critical for determining which voters go on the ‘federal only’ rolls. The state will have to resolve the issue in court, with time running out.

Lawsuit alleges that counties aren’t doing enough to verify eligibility. Officials say they’re following the law.

After ‘activist rulemaking’ in Georgia, experts are still confident officials can thwart local efforts to interfere with finalizing presidential results.

Why the secretary of state’s office originally overlooked write-in candidates who had enough votes to win.

If the Maricopa and Pinal board meetings are any indication, expect more challenges to results in November.

Kevin Cavanaugh, a longtime critic of the county elections department, says he found ‘strong evidence’ of cheating. County officials say the election went fine.

The rules prohibit yelling at or photographing voters outside polling places and drop boxes. A judge’s order says they restrict free speech.