Her office administers elections. She's implementing automatic updates to people's voter registration when they update their drivers' licenses. When she was the ranking Democrat on the Elections Committee in the State Senate, Republicans blocked legislation to do this. Her new position lets her just go ahead and set that up at the administrative level.
The Republican she defeated in 2018 to win her office had a very different attitude towards voter access. He planned to eliminate Spanish-language ballots and voting materials. (At some level, he understood that Spanish is useful in Arizona. Journalists who visited his mansion noted that he had 'No Trespassing' signs in Spanish outside.) On the call, I thanked Katie for fighting Republican attempts to recreate a racial aristocracy where some races can vote and other races can't.
Katie won her election by a margin of under 1%. Her campaign was funded in part by thousands of dollars from my Facebook friends, back when I was promoting her campaign and donating money myself. Thanks to you, she'll be the one running elections during Arizona's upcoming Senate race and Presidential campaign.
