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https://www.yahoo.com/now/cochise-county-supervisors-prove-katie-140036365.htmlsnip:
Cochise County is heavily Republican.According to records on the countys website, Republican Juan Ciscomani received nearly 14,000 more votes than Democrat Kirsten Engle in their race for Arizonas 6th congressional district.Likewise, Republican Tom Horne received 9,000 more votes than Democrat Kathy Hoffman in the contest for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
If the supervisors were to refuse to certify their election results and, as the law provides, disenfranchise all of the voters in Cochise County, Democrats would have enough votes from the other 14 counties to win both of those races.
All Katie Hobbs office has to do to make that happen is turn a blind eye. Dont file a lawsuit. Dont do anything.
Hobbs prevents MAGA from stepping on rakes.
Shame.
Ray Bruns
(4,515 posts)AverageOldGuy
(1,941 posts)If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
Me.
(35,454 posts)215 DEms/218 Cons? Not much wiggle room for them.
SCantiGOP
(14,154 posts)But a sitting Dem congressman has died, and that seat wont be filled until there is a special election in Virginia. It is a safe Dem seat.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)If even 1 county refuses to certify theirs?
Even though I live here, I don't know either way, and no article I've read states either way what will actually happen if Cochise does not do so.
But I suspect that the RePuQ's wouldn't make such an obvious and grievous mistake that hands the election to Hoffman, and grows the lead for every other Dem candidate.
Then again, I've overestimated their intelligence in the past, for sure
lees1975
(5,678 posts)so if Cochise doesn't "certify" theirs, which is really a matter of reporting, since according to the one sensible supervisor there, they have already verified the accuracy of the count, then it doesn't get included in the statewide total.
This is not the first boneheaded, grievous mistake made by the Cochise County Board of Supervisors. They have a long reputation of inept incompetence to maintain. I grew up there, I know.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)The law is the law.
You enforce it even if it means your side loses an election because the people voted and their votes count.
SCantiGOP
(14,154 posts)I hope everyone on our side opposes disenfranchising voters even if it were to benefit us.
Caliman73
(11,767 posts)Would I be upset if Cochise continues to shoot themselves and the Republican Party in the foot? Not at all. I would however, be upset if our elected officials started to cheat to win like the Republicans do. Hobbs is doing the right thing by following her mandate as SOS in Arizona. That may not stop Cochise from screwing over their voters, but it won't be the fault of Democratic meddling but of Republicans stupidity.
MissMillie
(38,935 posts)to shoot themselves in the foot.
dchill
(40,146 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,753 posts)Bucky
(55,334 posts)Forcing the morons to do their jobs is the right thing to do.
I'd like the irony of Hobbs doing nothing and letting Republicans eat the consequences, but not following the letter and spirit of the law would be off-brand for Good Government Democrats.
It'd be like a parent punishing an obstinate child for resisting potty training by refusing to change the child's diapers. When you take on the job of supervising elections, you're promising to clean up the mess
FelineOverlord
(3,753 posts)I like her.
I remember when she announced that she was running for Governor. This was when she was getting lots of death threats during the Cyber Ninjas nonsense.
republianmushroom
(17,196 posts)lees1975
(5,678 posts)They are so ignorant and stupid and unaware of the law, the way votes are counted and how secure and accurate and verifiable they are that they make stupid moves like this.
As I understand the situation, not only would excluding their votes flip the Congressional district election, and the state superintendent of public instruction but at least one state senate and representative district would be left without an elected candidate.