Arizona AG takes back opinion favoring election hand counts

by Bob Christiecapitol media servicesPHOENIX — Democratic Attorney General Chris Mays has retracted an informal opinion issued by his Republican predecessor. He said counties could manually count all ballots during elections. Cochise County Republicans attempted the procedure last year based on unsubstantiated concerns that mechanical ballot-counters were fraudulently counting. Neither safe nor accurate.Mays issued an […]