Voters in Arizona will be given the opportunity to enshrine the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution this election.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes certified 577,971 signatures Monday, which far exceeds the required 383,923 to get a question on the ballot. Earlier this year, Arizona for Abortion Access turned in more than 820,000 signatures, which was the largest total of signatures for a ballot referendum in state history and accounts for one-fifth of registered voters in the state.
“Today, we got word that Arizona’s 15 counties finished their review of a random sample of our signatures and the Secretary of State confirmed that we gathered far more than enough valid signatures, 50 percent above the required minimum. It is the most signatures ever validated by a citizen’s initiative in state history,” Arizona for Abortion Access, the group behind the…
