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Ballots were bought and sold in the City of San Luis for years, often in front of witnesses and often by perpetrators with no fear of prosecution. That is the indisputable fact confirmed in public records obtained from the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.But those records also confirm something deeper – that the unrestrained illegal election activity has denied citizens the opportunity to have a voice in the community’s future. It is a harm which will take a long time to heal, according to some people who tried to call attention to the problem in the past.The San Luis community will...

The Arizona attorney general’s office announced on Oct. 5 that Guillermina Fuentes was indicted for voting another person’s early ballot in the August 2020 primary election. She was charged with conspiracy, forgery and a ballot abuse count. Guillermina Fuentes who was indicted for illegally returning four voted mail-in ballots that were not hers is facing three new felony charges. Fuentes, 65, a Democrat, is a former mayor of the border city of San Luis. She serves as an elected board member of the Gadsden Elementary School District in San Luis. Calls seeking comment from her attorney in the earlier case,...

Nearly 30 years ago, before San Luis, Ariz., was a town, Elias Bermudez drove around its dirt streets hollering into a bullhorn that was strapped to the roof of his Chevy. Ever since, the name of the ex-convict and former San Luis mayor has become synonymous with protest and activism. The voice of a popular Phoenix radio show program, he has developed a reputation as a leading voice in a series of pro-immigration protests in Phoenix that are growing progressively more massive. One of the first to serve as mayor of San Luis, he is the only mayor to do...