Mike Stauffer, independent candidate for Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has already gathered 30,000 signatures to gain a place on the November 2012 ballot for Sheriff of Maricopa County. Maricopa County contains Phoenix and has over half the population of Arizona. Here is his web page. The Republican nominee is expected to be Joe Arpaio, who is 79 years old and has been in that office starting in 1992. Stauffer is a former registered Republican and has 29 years of law enforcement experience from New York city and Scottsdale, Arizona.