The race no one understands
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- (Last Updated On: May 28, 2026)
You’d be hard-pressed to find a political race with a more clear, direct impact on Arizonans’ finances than the Arizona Corporation Commission — yet most residents don’t seem to have any clue about it. It all starts with the name. “It’s not necessarily very clear what the Corporation Commission does,” Clara Pratte, a Democrat running for the commission, told us. “A lot of people skip it (on the ballot), or they’ll say, ‘Well, I don’t own a company and that doesn’t impact me, so I would rather not vote for it than vote for the wrong thing.’”