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  Former President Donald Trump, who touted during the campaign he “was able to kill Roe v. Wade,” won a second term in the White House. Simultaneously, seven out of 10 states voted to restore or expand abortion rights, according to early election results.

  Arizona is still waiting on election results it expected to have by Wednesday morning, with some ballots cast at polling places on Election Day yet uncounted, along with hundreds of thousands of early ballots from Maricopa County.

  Americans are about to find out what happens when they cast an informed vote for an uninformed president. Pima County voters seem likely to remain a noble bastion as the storms gather.

  While the citizen-led abortion rights initiative captured most of the attention in the lead up to the election, there were a dozen other ballot measures for Arizona voters to consider. Here’s a roundup of the ballot measures that mostly flew under the radar.

  Arizonans overwhelmingly rejected giving state judges lifetime appointments, defeating a ballot initiative that would have protected judges from going before voters - as they voted to keep two justices who voted to revive a near-total abortion ban from 1864.

  On the morning after Election Day, Pima County has more than 150,000 ballots left to tally, but the exact number is still unknown.

  Democrats spent more money than ever in their bid to flip control of Arizona’s legislature away from Republicans, but preliminary — and partial — election results show those efforts came up short of convincing voters in swing districts to award them the levers of power at the Capitol.

  While many votes remain to be counted, Democratic challenger Kristen Engel was leading U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani by 7 percentage points in Arizona's Congressional District 6. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva was coasting to a win in CD 7.

  Republican Eli Crane has built a solid lead in his quest to win a second term in the U.S. House of Representatives, as preliminary election results show him leading  Democratic challenger Jonathan Nez by 12 percentage points in the Second Congressional District.

  Arizona voters were anxious heading into Tuesday’s election, thinking about voting problems the state has experienced in the past and primed to worry about election security, but for the most part, election officials declared the day a success.

  Arizona may once again be at odds with the federal government over immigration enforcement, as voters appear to support a GOP bid to give the state the power to jail and deport migrants.

  Polls across the nation have closed, and while election workers continue to count ballots, the results of the 2024 presidential election have not been encouraging for Vice President Kamala Harris thus far, and attention now lies with the three “Blue Wall” states.