AZ: Mohave County Supervisor asks judge to grant him immunity to scrap ballot machines
PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes wants a judge to toss a bid by Mohave County Supervisor seeking a court order granting him immunity if he votes to scrap machine counting of ballots.
In court filings, Emma Mark, one of the lawyers in Mayes' office, told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Brad Astrowsky that what Ron Gould really wants is a judicial declaration that he can vote to require that ballots be counted by hand. As part of that, the supervisor claims he needs an order blocking Mayes from subjecting him to "threats and intimidation" for pushing for hand counts of elections.
Gould voted last year to require a hand count of the 2024 election. But he was on the losing end of a 3-2 vote by the board to scrap the idea after members got a letter from Mayes.
"We hope you will choose not to violate the law and thus that it will not be necessary to consider whether criminal prosecution is warranted for conducting an illegal hand count," the attorney general wrote at the time.
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