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EXPLANATION OF BALLOT MEASURES AS NOTED ABOVE.

The following is a summary of the above ballot measures that were provided by Ballotpedia.  

Proposition 141 — Ban on vehicle-miles-traveled taxes

Amends the Arizona Constitution to bar all levels of government from imposing a tax or fee based on vehicle miles traveled, or monitoring those miles. The proposal seeks to preemptively eliminate possible replacements to the gas tax that currently pays for road construction and maintenance, but which is underfunded both because the tax has not increased in decades and the proliferation of electric vehicles and fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles.

Proposition 142 — Anti-DEI amendment

Amends the Arizona Constitution to add prohibitions targeting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. It would bar public institutions from compelling endorsement of race-based preferences or DEI/intersectionality tenets, and from spending public money on offices that promote race-based preferential treatment. It includes carve-outs for coursework, research, student groups and instruction about events like slavery and the Holocaust.

Proposition 144 — “Fast Election Results Act”

Amends the Arizona Constitution to include a series of election reforms: only citizens may vote; foreign nationals may not contribute anything of value to influence an Arizona election; and every voter must show government-issued ID before casting a ballot “whether voting in person or by any other method.” The provisions limiting voting to citizens and requiring voter ID at polling places are already in state law; it is unclear how voters would show their ID if they vote by mail, as more than 70% of voters do.

Proposition 316 — Cap on local grocery taxes

Amends state law to cap municipal sales taxes on food for home consumption at 2% and requires voter approval for new or increased taxes; cities and towns already above 2% are frozen at their current rate rather than rolled back.

Proposition 317 — Drug cartels as terrorist organizations

Amends state law to declare drug cartels terrorist organizations and direct the Arizona Department of Homeland Security to act against them. The text includes a clause stating nothing in it supports an alien’s asylum claim, and ties its findings to Proposition 314, which voters approved last year, and the “actually invaded” constitutional language.

Proposition 318 — Anti-trans “Protect Girls’ Sports Act”

Amends state law to expand the existing statute banning transgender students from playing on the gender-appropriate K-12 or college sports team to require that teams be designated by biological sex (per original birth certificate) beginning in 2027. Additionally, the law would be expanded to bar schools from letting transgender students use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, something Republican lawmakers have failed to add to state law for more than a decade. The provisions would now also apply to private “athletic associations,” like Little League, not just Arizona schools.

Proposition 319 — Photo-enforcement voter approval

Amends state law to bar local governments from using photo enforcement systems to enforce traffic laws. For local governments and agencies already using photo enforcement systems as of Dec. 31, 2026, they must win voter approval to keep operating speed- and red-light cameras. If voters approve the cameras, that authorization lasts for 10 years, after which voters must once again vote on their use. 

Proposition 320 — 60% direct-instructional-spending mandate

Amends state law to require large school districts (those with at least 7,500-plus students) and all districts in Maricopa and Pima counties to spend at least 60% of operational dollars on direct classroom instruction, phased in over several years, with escalating cuts to a district’s Classroom Site Fund if it doesn’t comply. The Auditor General reported that, on average, 52.1 cents of every dollar currently ends up classified as instruction, the lowest in two decades of that report.