Working to get election deniers out of county supervisor positions in Arizona

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/03/election-deniers-still-try-their.html

Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva asks the DOJ to investigate illegal activity committed by the two Republican, election denying members of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors.

The two Republican supervisors were quite the election deniers. They refused to certify the vote count by the deadline, which is a violation of the law. Then, not trusting the vote counting machines, they ordered the county election supervisor to count the ballots by hand, something like 55,000 of them. That was also deemed illegal, so she refused, so the two supervisors sued her, costing the county more than a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees, and the elections supervisor who resigned. Following that, the two supervisors tried to roll the duties of the supervisor into the county recorder's office, currently held by another election denying Republican. That action is illegal as well, and so the Congressman who represents the district in which the county seat, Bisbee, is located, has asked the DOJ to get involved.

With counting ballots falling to county election supervisors, it is possible for politically motivated deniers to cause problems that would wind up disenfranchising voters who cast ballots for candidates they've targeted for defeat. Congressman Grijalva is claiming that Cochise County's supervisors have violated the law, particularly in rolling the duties of the county election supervisor into the job description of the county recorder, which is illegal. The duly elected and long-serving election supervisor in the county resigned, citing a hostile work environment when she was harassed by Crosby and Judd for not giving in to their orders to conduct an illegal hand count of the ballots. So the job now belongs to a partisan, Republican election denier.

If it didn't work for this election, they've set things up for down the road. And if something isn't done about all of this very illegal activity, it will change the course of electoral politics in Arizona.