An end to political deadlock? Arizona’s experiment with third parties

Will alternative parties and a change in voting methods deepen democratic representation or just favor one of the two established parties?

In a swing state that's likely to decide the next presidential election, two new third parties want to get on the ballot and other groups want to remake the way votes are cast and counted.

Arizona, which voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 as the state has grown more purple, could see big shifts to its political establishment in the next year, all premised on the idea that the dominance of the two main political parties creates dysfunction and prevents progress on issues that matter to voters. That has Democrats and Republicans here worried.