Chris McDaniel
KAWC News

YUMA — A delegation from the Arizona Secretary of State's Office, led by State Elections Chief Lisa Marra, visited Yuma County last week to test voting machines ahead of the upcoming election.

The inspection was conducted at the Yuma County Recorder's Office on Main Street.

The delegates conducted the “logic and precision” test for about two hours, with two observers from the Yuma County Republican Committee looking on.

Mara says testing has shown the machine to be 100 percent accurate.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes appointed Mara as the state's chief elections officer in March, after previously serving as deputy state elections officer since 2023, according to the Associated Press.

Mara will serve as the liaison with election officials in 15 Arizona counties and will oversee equipment testing, candidate and petition filings, election night reporting and door-to-door canvassing.

She replaces former elections director Colleen Connor, who was appointed to the new position of state policy director, which will oversee election-related litigation and implementation of the state's election procedures manual.

Mara previously served as Cochise County elections chairman but resigned in 2023 after refusing to cooperate with a request by the Republican majority on the Cochise County Commission to manually count ballots for the 2022 midterm elections, claiming it was illegal.