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Pima Recorder Gabriella Cazares-Kelly Details How to Run an Election

By Larry Bodine|2023-01-17T08:31:26-07:00January 10th, 2023|Elections|

Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cazares-Kelly outlined the services her office provides, speaking at the January 9, 2023, meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson.

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Pima County has 705,072 registered voters, and 480,321 voters on the Active Early Voting List (who vote by mail). Exactly 82.45% registered voters participated in the 2022 general election. Cazares-Kelly said she restructured training for the staff to provide additional accessibility, subject matter expert speakers, longer training sessions and additional resources and materials.

The recorder

Launched “track my ballot” alert feature for email and/or text messages
Included early voting faq’s and early voting site information in ballot packet
“Text to cure” for ballots requiring signature follow-up through free program through the secretary of state’s office.
Created a a web page specific to Voter Accessibility that has been adopted by Pima County Communications.

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About the Author: Larry Bodine

Larry Bodine is the page President of Democrats of Greater Tucson and is currently the Chair of Legislative District 18 Democrats. A journalist and attorney, Larry Bodine attends live political events and reports on them for the Blog for Arizona, which features politics from a liberal viewpoint. See http://blogforarizona.net/ He has been an elected Democratic precinct committeeman in Illinois and Arizona, starting with the 2006 Tammy Duckworth campaign (she is now a US Senator). As an elected Democratic precinct committeeman in LD9 in Tucson, he works to get Democrats elected. Since 2017 he has taught “Getting Active in Local Politics” at OLLI-UA (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His 45-year career includes reporting for the New York Daily News, when it was the largest-circulation US newspaper at the time. He has won 7 awards for investigative journalism.