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19-year-old wins county clerk election for nation's 4th-largest county
The Arizona State University student defeated former state senator Jeff Dial after a Republican hold on the office that lasted for decades.
- On Wednesday, 19-year-old Arizona State University student Sebastian Matta won the Maricopa County Clerk election, becoming one of the youngest people ever elected to a countywide office in Arizona.
- To secure his ballot spot, Matta collected 4,063 signatures and raised $20,000 from nine different states while driving nearly 30,000 miles across 25 legislative districts in Maricopa County.
- The Democrat defeated Republican Jeff Dial, a former state senator, in a race contributing to a historic Democratic wave seen by many as a rebuke of President Donald Trump's agenda over his past two years in office.
- Matta plans to build a foundation before implementing campaign changes, telling staff, "I don't plan on instituting some of my campaign changes for a couple of months, even a year in." He emphasized reassuring employees their jobs are secure.
- The clerk-elect aims to make the office more accessible by increasing staff interpreters for residents who speak less common languages in Maricopa County, including Urdu, Haitian Creole, and Korean.
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Sebastian Matta, a 19-year-old ASU student, is set to lead one of Arizona's biggest court offices after defeating a former state senator
Sebastian "Seb" Matta, a 19-year-old Arizona State University student, defeated former Republican state senator Jeff Dial to become clerk of Maricopa County Superior Court.
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WHAMArizona teen, 19, set to win county office Republicans held for decades
An Arizona teen flipped the seat for Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court for Democrats after the GOP held it for years, according to unofficial results.
·Washington, United States
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Bizpac Review19-Year-Old Democrat Defeats Republican In County At Center Of Election Integrity Debate
A teenage democratic nominee was just elected to serve as clerk for Arizona’s Superior Court in Maricopa County — of voting debacle fame from 2020.
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