Voucher-reform measure hangs by a thread as Supreme Court weighs signatures

By: Jim Small

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: August 18, 2026

Words: 1,127

Last Updated: 18 hours, 55 minutes ago

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Whether voters this fall will get a chance to weigh in on a ballot measure to implement sweeping new restrictions on the state’s billion-dollar universal school voucher program hinges entirely on whether the Arizona Supreme Court buys an argument from the initiative’s backers that a trial court judge’s plan for determining valid signatures means some bad signatures will be counted twice.

Analyses of initiative petition signatures performed by Arizona’s 15 county recorders left Proposition 212, …

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