Arizona’s 2025 legislative session adjourned today after passing the long-awaited budget deal to keep funding Arizona’s government into the next year. The end of the legislative session brought massive wins for Common Cause Arizona and voting rights advocates with the defeat of dangerous anti-democracy legislation. 

“Last year we saw one of the longest ballots in Arizona’s history. Arizona voters shot down anti-democracy measures and saw them for what they truly were. Today, we’re able to celebrate the legislative defeat of the newest attempts to flood our ballots and weaken our democracy,” said Common Cause Arizona’s Program Director, Jenny Guzman. “While there is still work to do, it’s a relief that Arizonans’ voting rights emerged unscathed from this session.” 

Many anti-voter measures proposed during this legislative session were designed to limit voter access to the ballot box and to impede the longstanding voting traditions of Arizonans. The most dangerous bills Common Cause helped defeat are:  

• SB1001 — Limits access to early voting by ending election day ballot drop off and limits which polling locations ballots can be dropped off at. This is entirely an anti-voter measure which is expected to be vetoed by Governor Hobbs. 

• HCR2041 — A duplicate application for a constitutional convention which would open the door for the U.S. Constitution to be scrapped and rewritten, jeopardizing our civil rights and liberties as we know them.  

• HCR2013 — A redundant ballot referral aiming to ban election day ballot drop off and cause serious damage to voting procedures and norms.  

From attempts to end election day ballot drop offs, attempts to expand restrictive voter ID laws, and a failed application for a constitutional convention — these losses are a testament to the strength of Arizona’s democracy and a win for everyday voters in the state.