Randy Keating

Happy Independence Day, Tempe!

Don't forget tonight's fireworks show was moved to Diablos Stadium. There is more information in the link below.

The headline says "Tomorrow" because the email was sent yesterday, the show is tonight, July 4th.

Tomorrow! Join us for the Tempe July 4th celebration at Diablo Stadium 🎆

🚨 UPDATE: I'm holding Recorder Heap accountable. And I'm not letting up.

Today, I submitted a formal Public Records Request to Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap demanding the Early Vote Rejection reports, Provisional Ballot reports, and voter cure lists for three elections, including the March 10, 2026, Tempe election, where his office's scanner scandal unfolded.

The question I need answered: Were Tempe voters disenfranchised because of Recorder Heap's reckless, partisan interference?

As you know, surveillance cameras caught Heap's top aide removing a ballot tabulation scanner from a secure election facility, while votes were being counted, and loading it into a personal vehicle. The machine was gone for ~50 minutes. A criminal investigation was launched. Taxpayers were handed a $70,000 bill to replace compromised equipment. And Heap still refuses to take responsibility.

But this isn't an isolated incident. It's a pattern designed to deliberately stress and possibly break our election system.

Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court challenging HCR 2001, a last-minute, party-line Republican legislature ballot referendum that would gut mail voting, impose impossible ID requirements, and strip constitutional protections for Arizona voters, all crammed into one take-it-or-leave-it ballot question.

From removing scanners during a live election to rubber-stamping legislation designed to make it harder to vote, this is what actual election interference looks like.

I will not stop demanding answers. I will not stop pushing for accountability. And if a single Tempe voter was denied their voice because of Recorder Heap's partisan gamesmanship, he and everyone who helped him will face the full weight of the law.

Every voter deserves better. Tempe deserves better. Arizona deserves better.