Two Republican Cochise County superintendents who have previously refused to certify the November 8 election because of ostensible concerns about the reliability of the electronic ballot counting system said the same device could help them win the 2020 election. I wasn’t worried when I checked.
Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd were elected to the Cochise County Supervisory Board in 2020. win a competitive Republican primary in the August election. These victories allowed them to advance to the November general election, where neither was opposed.
Both of these elections used the same electronic vote tally machines that Crosby and Judd now say are unreliable in the 2022 election. It cites these concerns and unsubstantiated allegations that the machine was not properly authenticated as to why the county’s election results could not be authenticated.
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Well, prefecture being sued to force them to vote should be charged with a felony for not following state law.
County elections administrator Lisa Mara told the Arizona Mirror that the county purchased ballot tallies in 2015 and used them for the first time in 2016. He said he did not question it.
“There have been no inquiries from them about procedures for removing themselves if they are not legally elected,” she said.
Crosby and Judd did not respond to messages seeking comment.
However, it’s unclear if the concerns expressed by Republican supervisors about polling tables are genuine. After Crosby and Judd voted to delay verification of the election, Judd denied the rationale and told The New York Times that the vote was a protest.
“Our little county, we’re tired of being kicked and not respected,” she said. told the timesThe move was a protest against the Maricopa County election, adding that printer problems affected voters on Election Day at about 30% of polling places.
Voters in affected Maricopa County were unable to read their ballots by polling place tabulators. However, I was able to deposit the completed ballots in a secure box to be transported to the county central elections facility and counted later. There were about 17,000 of those votes and they were all counted.
