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Phoenix

Reporter covering voting issues in Arizona

Education: University of Idaho, BS in Journalism

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez writes about voting issues in Arizona for The Washington Post. Her reporting focuses on how state and local officials navigate pressures on the administration of elections, while tracking legislative and legal battles over voting rules and access to the polls. She also tells the stories of people and communities who have lost faith in American democracy. She previously covered politics for the Arizona Republic.

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A voter walks to a voting precinct before casting his ballot in the state's primary election on July 30 in El Mirage, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Election workers sort mail-in ballots for the 2022 midterm elections that were dropped off at polling locations in Maricopa County on Nov. 8, 2022, in Phoenix.

An Arizona judge denied a request by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his case from state to federal court.

A supporter signs a Trump-themed bus ahead of a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Harrisburg, Pa., on July 31.

Mark Meadows, who was chief of staff in the Trump White House.

Tina Peters, a former clerk in Colorado's Mesa County, appears in court on March 3, 2023, in Grand Junction, Colo. (Scott Crabtree/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel/AP)

Donald Trump was described as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Arizona case.

Jenna Ellis, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington.

A school crossing guard stops cars for voters entering a Phoenix polling station in 2020.