Alexander Kolodin

The Arizona Legislature gave final approval to Kolodin's HCR 2001, referring voter-identification, citizen-only voting, foreign-money restrictions, and onsite-tabulation provisions to the statewide ballot.

June 12, 2026For

Source: gopld3.org · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin introduced HCR 2001, the Arizona Secure Elections Act, proposing citizenship and identification rules, a foreign-money ban, early-voting deadlines, and affirmative mail-ballot requests.

November 17, 2025For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin introduced HCR 2013, proposing address verification, early-voter identification numbers, an earlier cutoff for early ballots, and a prohibition on foreign election funding.

January 14, 2025For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin and Senator Wendy Rogers reached a memorandum of understanding with Runbeck Election Services providing bipartisan observation, legislative software-audit access, workflow documentation, and access to 2022 loading-dock video.

March 4, 2024For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

The Arizona Supreme Court vacated an appellate stay and reinstated modified injunctions favoring Recorder Justin Heap's statutory election authority in the case where Kolodin served as counsel.

July 7, 2026For

Source: azcourts.gov · researched July 13, 2026

A Maricopa County Superior Court ruled for Recorder Justin Heap in an election-authority dispute; the Recorder's official release identified Kolodin as counsel who helped secure the ruling.

April 17, 2026For

Source: recorder.maricopa.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's emergency HB 2022, moving Arizona's 2026 primary to July, protecting overseas military ballot timelines, revising cure deadlines, and expanding party-observer access.

February 6, 2026For

Source: azsenaterepublicans.gov · researched July 13, 2026

As chair of the House Ad Hoc Committee on Election Integrity and Florida-Style Voting Systems, Kolodin held a public hearing on address verification, early-ballot verification, ballot deadlines, and foreign election funding.

January 15, 2025For

Source: azhousegop.com · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's HB 2473, requiring a behavioral-health licensing fee waiver when an associate licensee's independent-licensure application is pending at renewal.

March 29, 2024For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

State Representative Alexander Kolodin completed three days of negotiations with legislators, Scottsdale, and Maricopa County and proposed a temporary standpipe district to restore hauled water access for Rio Verde Foothills households through HB 2561.

March 22, 2023For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

The Arizona Supreme Court vacated an appellate stay and reinstated modified injunctions favoring Recorder Justin Heap's statutory election authority in the case where Kolodin served as counsel.

July 7, 2026For

Source: azcourts.gov · researched July 13, 2026

The Arizona Legislature gave final approval to Kolodin's HCR 2001, referring voter-identification, citizen-only voting, foreign-money restrictions, and onsite-tabulation provisions to the statewide ballot.

June 12, 2026For

Source: gopld3.org · researched July 13, 2026

A Maricopa County Superior Court ruled for Recorder Justin Heap in an election-authority dispute; the Recorder's official release identified Kolodin as counsel who helped secure the ruling.

April 17, 2026For

Source: recorder.maricopa.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's emergency HB 2022, moving Arizona's 2026 primary to July, protecting overseas military ballot timelines, revising cure deadlines, and expanding party-observer access.

February 6, 2026For

Source: azsenaterepublicans.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin introduced HCR 2001, the Arizona Secure Elections Act, proposing citizenship and identification rules, a foreign-money ban, early-voting deadlines, and affirmative mail-ballot requests.

November 17, 2025For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin chaired a House hearing bringing election officials, technologists, and policy experts together to examine artificial intelligence risks and safeguards in elections.

November 7, 2025For

Source: azhousegop.com · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed Kolodin's HB 2046, which would have expressly included voting centers in post-election hand-count audit samples and accelerated the start of audit work.

May 6, 2025For

Source: kjzz.org · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed Kolodin's HB 2153, which would have expanded political-party observers at early-voting locations and required designated observers to act as challengers.

April 15, 2025For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Sponsored a strike-everything amendment to HB 2038 requiring county recorders to notify affected voters, change their status to not registered if satisfactory documentary proof of citizenship was not provided, and cancel the registration after the next general election if the proof remained missing.

February 7, 2025For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 25, 2026

As chair of the House Ad Hoc Committee on Election Integrity and Florida-Style Voting Systems, Kolodin held a public hearing on address verification, early-ballot verification, ballot deadlines, and foreign election funding.

January 15, 2025For

Source: azhousegop.com · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin introduced HCR 2013, proposing address verification, early-voter identification numbers, an earlier cutoff for early ballots, and a prohibition on foreign election funding.

January 14, 2025For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin helped secure a settlement requiring Maricopa County to provide the tabulators and accessible voting devices it intended to deploy for logic-and-accuracy testing before the 2024 general election.

August 13, 2024For

Source: kjzz.org · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's emergency HB 2394, creating expedited declaratory and injunctive remedies for election-related digital impersonation and other harmful AI-generated impersonation.

May 21, 2024For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

The Arizona Supreme Court vacated fee sanctions against the Arizona Republican Party in a 2020 hand-count lawsuit handled by Kolodin while otherwise leaving the underlying judgment intact.

May 2, 2024For

Source: caselaw.findlaw.com · researched July 13, 2026

Kolodin and Senator Wendy Rogers reached a memorandum of understanding with Runbeck Election Services providing bipartisan observation, legislative software-audit access, workflow documentation, and access to 2022 loading-dock video.

March 4, 2024For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's emergency HB 2785, changing the 2024 primary date and revising election canvass, signature-curing, testing, observation, and recount procedures.

February 9, 2024For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed Kolodin's HB 2319 after it passed the Legislature; the bill would have required competing interpretations of Arizona election law to favor greater transparency.

April 17, 2023For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Sponsored HB 2322, a bipartisan-passed bill establishing minimum early-ballot signature-verification rules; Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed it.

April 6, 2023For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 25, 2026

Kolodin chaired a House hearing bringing election officials, technologists, and policy experts together to examine artificial intelligence risks and safeguards in elections.

November 7, 2025For

Source: azhousegop.com · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's emergency HB 2394, creating expedited declaratory and injunctive remedies for election-related digital impersonation and other harmful AI-generated impersonation.

May 21, 2024For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Represented Phoenix Children's Hospital employees in a class action alleging that the hospital unlawfully disclosed workers' medical or religious vaccination-exemption status.

December 2, 2021For

Source: arizonadailyindependent.com · researched July 25, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's emergency HB 2022, moving Arizona's 2026 primary to July, protecting overseas military ballot timelines, revising cure deadlines, and expanding party-observer access.

February 6, 2026For

Source: azsenaterepublicans.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Citing free-speech concerns, cast the sole House vote against the amended SB 1424 measure criminalizing certain false military-service claims made during political campaigns.

April 9, 2025For

Source: phoenixnewtimes.com · researched July 25, 2026

Governor Katie Hobbs signed Kolodin's emergency HB 2785, changing the 2024 primary date and revising election canvass, signature-curing, testing, observation, and recount procedures.

February 9, 2024For

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Arizona Republican Legislative District 3 voted to endorse Kolodin for Arizona Secretary of State.

April 20, 2026

Source: gopld3.org · researched July 13, 2026

Authored a strike-everything amendment to SB 1291, signed into law, raising the evidentiary standard for guardianship and requiring prior healthcare powers of attorney to accompany guardianship applications.

June 20, 2023

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 25, 2026

Served as vice chair of the Arizona House Municipal Oversight and Elections Committee.

February 23, 2023

Source: azleg.gov · researched July 25, 2026

Kolodin launched his Secretary-of-State campaign claiming Arizona Republican Party chair Gina Swoboda had endorsed him; Swoboda denied endorsing him and said party bylaws barred her from endorsing in the primary.

March 31, 2025

Source: phoenixnewtimes.com · researched July 13, 2026

The State Bar of Arizona publicly admonished Kolodin and imposed 18 months of probation, costs, and ethics-focused continuing education over his work in three 2020 election cases.

December 14, 2023

Source: azmirror.com · researched July 13, 2026