Earlier this year, Mr. Heap proposed an unsuccessful bill to exclude Arizona from a multi-state effort to maintain voter lists.
ARIZONA, USA — Republican state Rep. Justin Heap, who questioned election administration in Arizona’s most populous county, has been elected to oversee voting as Maricopa County Recorder.
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Heap is how elections are being handled in Maricopa County, the fourth largest county in the U.S. with a population of about 4.5 million people and a hotbed of conspiracy theories about voting in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat. could change dramatically.
His Democratic challenger is Tim Stringham, who served first in the Army and then in the Navy as a judge barrister attorney. Mr Stringham admitted defeat on Wednesday and congratulated Mr Heap.
The road to victory began with victory In July’s Republican primary election against current Congressman of Record Steven Richer.
Richer has endured a flood of harassment and disinformation, even death threats, while defending the legitimacy of the vote for four years in one of the country’s most closely watched political battlegrounds. His office fought off criticism of the results. 2020 Presidential Electionas Trump and his supporters false claims Widespread cheating prevented him from participating in the race.
The Recorder’s Office, which shares election duties with the county Board of Supervisors, was similarly attacked when its members defended the county’s elections.
Heap did not say the 2020 and 2022 elections were stolen, but said the state’s practices in handling early voting were unsafe and did not include how the ballots were transported and handled after they were submitted. , raising doubts as to whether it will be preserved. Earlier this year, Heap proposed an unsuccessful bill to remove Arizona from statehood. A multi-national effort To maintain voter lists.
“I am humbled and honored to have been selected as the next Maricopa County Recorder,” Heap said in a victory statement Wednesday, shortly after Stringham conceded. “Protecting election integrity is an issue that affects us all, so I intend to fulfill my promise to be a recorder for every voter.”
He said he would work with the state Legislature to help “restore Maricopa County to its rightful place as the nation’s preeminent leader in election administration.”
Stringham posted on social platform X that he called Heap “to celebrate the completion of a long campaign for both of us and to wish him the best.”
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