Arizona county board delays certifying election results
Source: AP
By BOB CHRISTIE
PHOENIX (AP) The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders had hoped to recount all Election Day ballots on Friday delayed certifying the results of last weeks vote after hearing from a trio of conspiracy theorists who alleged that counting machines were not certified.
The three men, or some combination of them, have filed at least four cases raising similar claims before the Arizona Supreme Court since 2021 seeking to have the states 2020 election results thrown out. The court has dismissed all of them for lack of evidence, waiting too long after the election was certified or asking for relief that could not be granted, in increasingly harsh language.
But Tom Rice, Brian Steiner and Daniel Wood managed to persuade the two Republicans who control the Cochise County board of supervisors that their claims were valid enough for them to delay the certification until a Nov. 28 deadline.
They claimed the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission allowed certifications for testing companies to lapse, and that voided the certifications of vote tabulation equipment used across the state.
FILE - Maricopa County, Ariz., ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, in Phoenix on May 6, 2021. At least one recount will be on tap in Arizona after the counting from the Nov. 8, 2022, midterm elections ends. Once Arizona's counties certify their results in the coming days as scheduled, a recount will be triggered in at least one statewide race. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool, File)
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SunSeeker
(51,664 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)They always use a new exponential regression from reality to support their paranoid conspiracy theories
GreenWave
(6,765 posts)How's about suing states that do not provide ample voting machines in Blue districts?
paleotn
(17,946 posts)lees1975
(3,876 posts)The vote totals in that county are heavily Republican. This county had supervisors who wanted to hand count the ballots. Stupid people live there.
If they hold up the vote and don't make the deadline, it will subtract about 35,000 republican votes from the totals and will lead to the election of a Democrat in the 6th congressional district who lost by just a couple thousand votes. So I wish them well. I hope they don't meet the deadline.
ColinC
(8,327 posts)Irony isnt dead
royable
(1,265 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 20, 2022, 06:01 AM - Edit history (1)
but that would certainly turn the tables on the election deniers!
Cochise county is almost entirely in Congressional District 6. Juan Ciscomani (R) only leads Kirsten Engel (D) by a little over 5,000 votes. He received 26,180 votes from Cochise, and she received only 12,405. So, yes, without Cochise votes, Engel would be the winner.
I'm really miffed about how Tucson was surgically sliced in half between CD 6 and CD 7 so as to give CD 7 to a repub while in CD 6, Raúl Grijalva won with 65% of the votes, Democratic votes unneeded for Grijalva's win could have gone to Engel if the district boundary snaking through central Tucson had been just a little further to the west.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)I wish she'd jump in the lake.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Must.
Not.
Post.
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Words.
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Want.
To.
Post.
bluestarone
(17,025 posts)Claim fraud. Plus NOTHING will happen to them for doing it!
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Joe Bacon
(5,165 posts)Guess they moved on to another country...