Governor vetoes GOP bill to close schools on Election Day, convert gyms to polling places

A Republican proposal that would have closed Arizona schools on Election Day and forced them to allow their gymnasiums to be used as polling places was vetoed Tuesday for being “nonsensical and objectionable.”

It was one of a series of election-related bills that GOP lawmakers sent to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs that were rejected.

One of those bills would have effectively created a bounty system to reward Arizonans who sued local governments that present election information “in any manner that is not imperial or neutral,” while another would have required the Arizona Department of Transportation to also send voter registration information directly to county recorders instead of solely to the Secretary of State’s Office.

A third would have barred Arizona from participating in the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, a multistate partnership to cross-check for duplicate voter registrations across state lines.


https://azmirror.com/2025/05/13/governor-vetoes-gop-bill-to-close-schools-on-election-day-convert-gyms-to-polling-places/