As of 8 a.m., Wednesday, May 19, Proposition 100 has passed.
The proposition creates a 1 percent temporary sales tax, raising the state’s sales tax from 5.6 cents to 6.6 cents on taxable items.
With all 52 precincts in Yavapai County reporting, voters unofficially approved the measure 33,581 to 24,038, or 58.3 percent to 41.7 percent. An estimated 47.9 percent of registered voters participated in the in-person election. There was no vote-by-mail option for most voters.
With 95.6 percent of Coconino County polls reporting, voters in that county also approved the measure by a margin of 15,158 to 6,124 votes.
Statewide, Arizona voters appear to have unofficially approved the tax increase by a wide margin of 693,281 to 388,797, or 64.1 percent to 35.9 percent, with 98.7 percent of precincts reporting. Thirteen precincts spread out in Maricopa, Pima and Coconino counties have yet to deliver final numbers to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
