On Tuesday, Arizona's attorney general sued to stop a transfer of election duties in a rural county where the leaders have embraced voting conspiracy theories. abc15
The Republican majority on the Cochise County Board of Supervisors voted last week to transfer all election functions from the nonpartisan elections department to the county's elected recorder, also a Republican. The move follows the resignation of the elections director, who had objected to the board's efforts to conduct a full hand count of last year's vote.
“While counties may appropriately enter into cooperative agreements with their recorders to manage elections, Cochise County’s agreement steps far over the legal line,” Mayes said in a news release announcing the lawsuit. Crosby and Judd have said they believe the transfer is legal under Arizona law and that they have little choice because the elections director, Lisa Marra, resigned last month, citing threats and intimidation.
During the November 2022 election, at the urging of Crosby and Judd, Stevens was prepared to count all ballots by hand until a judge stopped it. Crosby and Judd then refused to certify the county's elections results, protesting what they contended were irregularities in Maricopa County that they blamed for statewide wins by Mayes and other Democrats. A judge eventually forced them to sign off on the election.
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