First, you will need to become a Precinct Committeeperson (PC). To do that, find out which Legislative District you live in and contact the Chair. Tell them you would like to apply to become a PC. Once you become a PC, your Chair (or anyone on the LD Board) can create a walk list for you. If you would like access to the voter file, please speak with your Chair about that application and training process.

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Our notaries are volunteers, so we only have a notary in the office when they are able to come in. The most up to date Notary office hours are listed on our calendar. Click HERE for a tutorial on how to use our calendar’s search function

An electoral district which provides its population with representation in the US Congress. Arizona is represented in Congress by nine Congressional Districts. All Congressional representatives are elected every two years.

An electoral district which provides its population with representation in the Arizona State Legislature. There are thirty Legislative Districts in Arizona. Each district is represented by two State Representatives and one State Senator. All state legislators are elected every two years.

A precinct is the smallest unit into which electoral districts are divided. Also known as a voting district, traditionally a voter’s polling place is found inside their precinct (though that is no longer the case in counties with different voting systems like vote centers).

A subdivision of the state (Arizona) that provides needed municipal-type services and addresses problems common to the geographic area. The County is run by a Board of Supervisors which, in addition to overseeing the delivery of a host of municipal services (from roads to parks and libraries and law enforcement), is also responsible for approving the county budget and setting the amount of taxes to be levied.

An electoral district which provides its population with representation on the County Board of Supervisors. Pima voters are represented on the Board of Supervisors by one of five Supervisors, who are elected to four year terms.

A subdivision of the County Justice Court, which is a trial court of limited jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases. There are ten Justice of the Peace (JP) districts in Pima county. Justices of the Peace are elected by voters in their JP district, and serve four-year terms.

The city of Tucson is divided into five wards. Each ward elects a Coucilperson who serves a four-year term.

A county is divided into school boards. Officials elected by voters in the school district to school boards are responsible for guiding the school or district’s budget, approving bills, and establishing spending priorities.

Usually campaigns get their information directly from the publically available voter file; when you registered to vote, you likely wrote down your landline or mobile number. However, a campaign may also be targeting you based on data they have purchased from companies that have collected hundreds of data points on you. Unless you use a burner phone and live out in the middle of nowhere and have never subscribed to anything in your life, odds are that campaigns can find your information. We suggest voting early and replying STOP to any unwanted messages you receive.

The Federal Trade Commission’s National Do Not Call Registry only applies to sales calls, not political calls.

Simply ask the volunteer or staffer on the other end of the line to remove your number, and most campaigns will opt you out of call lists.

Political text messages can be sent without the intended recipient’s prior consent if the message’s sender does not use autodialing technology to send such texts and instead manually dials them (which is what all campaigns do)

Simply reply to the text by typing STOP, and most campaigns will opt you out of their texting.

While there’s no federal law prohibiting candidates from sending voters emails, there are ways to opt out of political spam. The next time you receive an email from a politician you don’t remember giving your consent to, try calling the campaign and asking to be removed from its list. There may also be an “Unsubscribe” link in small print at the bottom of the email.

The Pima County Democratic Party can only unsubscribe recipients of Pima County Democratic Party emails. We cannot unsubscribe you from a candidate’s email list, any state or national party list, or any PAC list. Because we did not send it.

A coordinated campaign forms under the umbrella of the state party to elect Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. Candidates will (literally) buy into the coordinated which will help make decisions and run voter turnout efforts for that candidate. By pooling resources, the coordinated campaign can organize a unified strategy, thereby reaching more voters while removing the risk of duplicative efforts. Once bought in, candidates give up complete control of their field program to the coordinated campaign.

The cost to “buy in” to a coordinated campaign varies widely, but in general it is easier for candidates higher up on the ballot to buy in than candidates running for more local offices. The state party relies on larger buy ins in order to pay the staffing costs needed to execute the coordinated program.

This sometimes results in tension between the coordinated campaign and local organizations who do not want to give up their agency regarding strategy for voter outreach, but lack the funds necessary to do the amount of work achieved by the coordinated campaign. Local organizations can feel resentful towards the coordinated campaign, which drains their local resources normally used for local elections, and the coordinated campaign can feel frustrated with local organizations for not immediately jumping on board with their plan to win important elections elsewhere in the state.

In Arizona, the state coordinated campaign is called Mission for Arizona.

Here are just some of the groups in Southern Arizona focused on specific aspects of our Democracy.

This is surprisingly complicated, as rules change frequently. Thankfully there is a HOTLINE for questions about political signage, at the Tucson City Planning and Development Dept. 520-791-5550.

We feel this! Candidate yard signs are paid for and produced by the candidates’ campaigns. While PCDP makes every effort to reach out to campaigns to ask for signs to be dropped off at headquarters, campaigns are not always able to answer our requests. If we don’t have your candidate’s sign, make sure to reach out directly to that candidate’s campaign and ask them to give us more signs and literature! When we get a bunch of new signs, we try to publicize that on our social media and website.