Cochise County supervisors said they would like to hear more presentations on whether they are properly certified for use in midterm elections, and voted Monday to call for a special meeting Friday on voting machine security. .
The Secretary of State did not directly address the lawsuit in a statement following the Cochise County vote on Monday. I did,” Sophia Solis, a spokesperson for the Secretariat, wrote in an email. “The oversight board had all the information it needed to prove this election, but failed to meet its responsibilities to Cochise’s voters.”
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, had a serious problem on Election Day, with vote centers running out of paper ballots early in the day. A court order there kept polling places open for an additional two hours to allow voters to cast their ballots, Spotlight PA reported: The local district attorney is investigating the shortage.
Democratic Attorney Elias seemed to hint at potential lawsuits there. And a statement from the Pennsylvania State Department late Monday afternoon said the State Department ” [Luzerne] Ask about the board’s decisions and their intended next steps. “
But the results in Lucerne are likely to be certified soon, even if they don’t go to court right away. In an interview with the Associated Press later Monday, he said he would vote immediately to prove the results.
“I wanted to find out the exact number of people who were not allowed to vote. told AP, told the news agency that election officials had reached out to two-thirds of the workers who run individual polling stations and “reported that no one was denied.” The AP reported that a meeting to prove the results is scheduled for Wednesday.
A county attorney told board members during a meeting that the state or candidates could “sue” after the county failed to certify the election.
In recent elections, there have been few examples of counties refusing to prove legitimate results. Earlier this year, Otero County, New Mexico, initially refused to certify election results in the state’s summer primary.New Mexico Secretary of State Sued, State Supreme Court ordered the county to certifyit finally did.
Monday morning’s Cochise County Board meeting was brief. However, during a meeting in Luzern County and another in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest county, angry people demanded county officials not prove their votes, sometimes calling for new elections.
In Maricopa, protesters targeted both Republican Board Chairman Bill Gates and Recorder Steven Richer after the counting machines malfunctioned at many polling places in the county. can’t read ballot Election day. (Troubled voters could instead choose to turn in their ballots and have them counted at central voting sites, although long lines were seen at some sites.
After hours of hearings, Maricopa’s Republican-dominated board unanimously decided to approve the election. Losing gubernatorial candidate Lake tweeted several videos of people criticizing Maricopa County election officials.
Elsewhere, the certification process also faced protests, but officials still authenticated ballots. Prove the election results. Christina Karamo — the Trump-backed secretary of state candidate who was easily defeated earlier this month — pleaded with the board not to be certified, but was turned down. temporarily left the room for confusion.
“Many questions stem from a lack of proper understanding, unfortunately fed by candidates and party officials on both sides of the aisle preying on this nonsense,” said Republican Commissioner Tony Daunt. At the meeting he said: According to the Detroit Free Press“And what I’m talking about is essentially trying to put out the wildfires right now at the Dixie Cup.”
Holly Otterbein contributed to this report.
