I watched KPNX's Sunday Square Off with Brahm Resnik today (I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'm a politics geek :) ).
Adrian Fontes, Arizona's Secretary of State was on. At approximately the 5:30 mark of the linked YouTube video, he informed viewers that the state's No Labels party would be changing its name as of 12/1/2025.
To "Arizona Independent" party.
As most registrants put "Independent" instead of "Party Not Declared" (PND) on their voter registration forms, this reeks of being a dirty trick intended to falsely inflate that party's registration numbers.
Fontes did report that he and staff are looking for ways to minimize confusion.
In spite of that, voters should check their registrations, especially PND voters.
What wasn't covered, and what I don't know, was if this is happening in other states, or if Arizona is serving as the guinea pig/test case for this scheme, and if it works here, it'll be exported to other states.
