Claims: Arizona’s Yavapai and Gila counties are delaying the certification of midterm election results.
AP Rating: Wrong. Gila County will certify the results on Nov. 18, and Yavapai County will do so on Nov. 28, a county official told his Associated Press. Her two other counties in Arizona have delayed the certification of election results.
Fact: Two Arizona counties, Cochise and Mojave, are both Republican-controlled. delay authentication In the midterm election results, social media users spread unsubstantiated claims that Gila and Yavapai counties did the same. The claims spread across multiple platforms, including Facebook and Truth Social.
“Meanwhile, in Arizona…..Gila and Yavapai counties have joined Cochise but have not accredited. Two additional counties considering the same,” said the former Fox Nation host. Lara Logan wrote in a tweeton A Sunday shared more than 7,000 times.
Arizona Senator. Wendy RogersRepublicans who supported a partisan review of the 2020 ballot in Maricopa County also shared Logan’s tweet on Sunday, writing: Yes Yes. #ruralAZ I know. #ruralAZ ROCKS!”
In a separate tweet on Monday, Logan revealed that Gila County certified the results “last Friday,” quoting Rogers. It did not remove the correct post and did not correct the false claims about Yavapai County.
The Gila County Supervisory Board investigated the election results on November 18, according to the report. county document and bureaucrats.
“The canvas was done last Friday,” said Melissa Henderson, chief deputy secretary of the Gila County Board of Supervisors. She said, “It was scheduled for the 16th, but I needed a few more days, so I postponed it to the 18th.”
The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors has set Monday, Nov. 28, as the day to prove the election results and will stick to that plan, said Jamie Rush, deputy secretary of the board. November 28th is the legal deadline for Arizona counties to certify election results.
“The board will meet on Monday the 28th to review the results of the election,” she said.
Senators Logan and Rogers did not immediately respond to AP’s request for comment.
The split vote by the Mojave County Board of Supervisors to postpone the ballot came with a clear pledge to prove the election by the Nov. 28 deadline. AP reportedMembers call it a political statement to show how angry they are voting problem Located in Maricopa County.
Mojave County became the second Arizona county, after Cochise, to delay certification. The board made the decision Friday without any commitment to prove the results by a deadline, even though it had set a meeting to review it. It occurred after hearing the Board’s opinion that it was not. State election officials testified that the machine was certified. AP reported.
The all-Republican commissions in two other counties, Pinal and La Paz counties, did little to prove their election results on Monday.
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