2026 Ballot Measures
Vote YES on the Municipal and School Overrides on Your Ballot This November
County Proposition
YES Jail Facility Excise Tax
School Bonds & Overrides
YES Scottsdale USD, Capital Bond
YES Scottsdale USD, Site Sale
YES Paradise Valley USD, M&O Override
YES Paradise Valley USD, DDA Override
Vote NO on These Referrals On Your Ballot This November
Thank you to Civic Education Beyond Voting for the information on these referrals.
Constitutional Amendment: Prohibits Taxes or Fees Based on Vehicle Miles Traveled
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Proposition 141​
VOTE NO!
Proposition 141 would amend Arizona’s Constitution to prohibit taxes or fees based on vehicle miles traveled and restrict programs that monitor or limit mileage without consent.
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Gas powered drivers currently help fund road maintenance through an 18 cent per gallon tax. As more electric vehicles use Arizona roads without paying that tax, the state must be able to consider other funding options, including a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) program.
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Prop 141 would permanently remove that option. Arizona should preserve the flexibility to find fair ways to fund and maintain our roads. Vote NO.
Constitutional Amendment: Prohibits Preferential Treatment and Discrimination (Anti-DEI)
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Proposition 142​
VOTE NO!
Proposition 142 would prohibit government agencies, including public education systems, from requiring an applicant, student, or employee to endorse "promoting preferential treatment toward or discrimination against an individual or group on the basis of race or ethnicity" and would prohibit requiring enrollment in a course that promotes the creation of a race-based diversity, equity, and inclusion or intersectionality.
Some politicians would have us believe human differences should be hidden, not welcomed or celebrated. Those who put this ill-intended prohibition on our ballots ignore that it would block teachers from discussing truthful history and accurate science. They refuse to acknowledge that race and ethnicity data is essential to meaningful research or medical results. They especially hope we ignore the provision that would let them ban any “related practice or concept,” giving them a free pass to create catch-all discrimination and injustice. Vote NO.
Constitutional Amendment: Election Requirements (Attack on Voting By Mail)
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Proposition 144​
VOTE NO!
This legislative referral creates obstacles that would limit our access to the ballot, requiring proof of identity including when voting by mail, limiting the types of identification currently accepted in Arizona, and creating a new standard for judicial review of election laws which may make it more difficult to challenge election laws.
It authorizes legislators to create a new process for voting by mail, and would even allow the legislature to ban mail-in voting altogether. This means we would be authorizing them to restrict our voting rights in the future. If you're thinking, "They won't do that," consider: the author of this measure freely admits that he designed Prop 144 to eliminate mail-in voting. Hands Off Our Vote! Vote NO on Prop 144.
Statutory Measure: Prohibits Local Governments From Increasing Taxes on Groceries
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Proposition 316​
VOTE NO!
Disguised as tax relief, Prop 316 was designed by the legislature to handcuff cities and towns by restricting the revenue they need to function. Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a similar bill in 2023 that would have cost 65 Arizona cities over $150 million a year, blowing holes in local budgets and forcing them to slash services and raise property taxes. For example, food tax revenue makes up more than 30% of the budget in the small town of Taylor. City officials have said a 3% food tax is a lot more equitable than adding a new property tax and concentrating that tax on homeowners.
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When state legislators cut taxes to the bone, counties and cities have to make up the difference in order to fund essential services like firefighters, police, libraries, parks, street maintenance, and the hundreds of unnoticed benefits that make daily life possible. The legislature should work on putting its own house in order, and let cities and towns manage theirs. Vote NO!
This measure takes the empty, performative step of declaring that drug cartels are terrorist organizations. It is critical that we understand this for what it is: not a contribution to public safety, but a messaging move in line with efforts by the current federal administration to frame desperate migration as "invasion" by "animals" and to convince voters that terrorists are massing at our southern border. Prop 317 will connect cartels to terrorism in the public’s imagination, helping supercharge the dangerous militarization of the border while doing nothing to solve the actual problem of drug trafficking.
Passing this into law could carry unintended consequences for victims of human trafficking. The Brennan Center for Justice warns of the danger to large numbers of people with no connection to drug trafficking or terrorism, such as churches, synagogues, food banks and health clinics. Any organization that aids a migrant who was smuggled across the border could be vulnerable to prosecution or freezing of assets.
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Proposition 318​
VOTE NO!
Prop 318 would prohibit schools and athletic associations from authorizing a student, athlete, employee, or other individual from using a restroom, locker room, shower room, or other private space that is not designated for their sex; define sex as the "biological status as male or female as recorded at birth on the individual's original birth certificate;" and remove the provision allowing any student, including females, to participate in any interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport designated for males.
It lumps kindergarteners and college athletes into the same one-size-fits-all category, forcing the same rules on toddlers and college track stars. Prop 318 is careless and broad, which means unintended real-world consequences for our kids. Children could be needlessly examined and shamed, or be asked to prove they are male or female. This measure belongs in the Hall of Shame, along with all other attacks on our rights and freedoms.
Prop 319 would prohibit state agencies and local governments from using photo enforcement systems to identify violators of traffic laws unless the agency or government contracts to use those systems by December 31, 2026, and would require ocal governments to obtain voter approval of existing photo enforcement systems at the next regular general election and every 10 years afterward to continue using photo enforcement systems.
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Red-light cameras at intersections reduce fatal crashes by 21% (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety), mostly by improving driver attentiveness. Other studies show reductions of up to 29%. The jury is in: speeding up to get through a red light causes serious crashes and fatalities that are preventable. Prop 319 would remove one of our best tools for preventing them.
With regard to traffic cameras, one recent study in Philadelphia estimated that monitoring a particularly dangerous roadway prevented up to 20 crashes per month and 1.4 monthly deaths. The intent of traffic cameras is to prevent serious accidents, not to generate expensive tickets. Please vote NO.
Statutory Measure: Requires Certain School Districts to Spend 60% on Instructional Expenses
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Proposition 320​
VOTE NO!
Prop 320's inflexible, arbitrary 60% threshold for “direct instructional expenses” includes only teachers, some aides, instructional supplies, field trips and athletics. Schools that can't comply would be defunded. This narrow definition leaves out all the other components that make a kid’s school day work. Imagine a school without custodians, counselors, librarians, teacher training, technology, building maintenance and repair, groundskeeping, security, accounting and payroll, air conditioning, insurance, food service, buses, clerical staff, security, lighting, or the extra services students with special needs require. How would it function? Would that help our kids learn?
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Proponents' noise about "administrative spending" is grossly deceptive. In reality, Arizona's district schools spend among the least on administration nationwide. Arizona's average for-profit charter school spends 22% on administration — double what public district schools do — but this measure doesn't include them.