2nd Arizona county delays certifying election, for now

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By BOB CHRISTIE 38 minutes ago

PHOENIX (AP) — A second Republican-controlled Arizona county on Monday delayed certifying the results of this month’s election as a protest against voting issues in Maricopa County that some GOP officials have blamed for their losses in top races including the contest for governor.

The delay came as Maricopa, the state’s most populous county, finished counting the last remaining ballots and the state attorney general demanded that officials there explain Election Day problems some voters experienced.

Arizona voters elected a Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs, and gave Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly a full six-year term in office. But the race for attorney general was heading to a mandatory recount once the election is certified by all 15 counties and the secretary of state. Democrat Kris Mayes ended up ahead of Republican Abraham Hamadeh by just 510 votes on Monday after Maricopa County counted about 3,000 remaining ballots. Nearly 2.6 million Arizonans voted.

The split vote by the board of supervisors in Mohave County in northwest Arizona came with an explicit vow to certify the election on the Nov. 28 deadline. Members called it a political statement to show how upset they were with the issues in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix and about 60% of the the state’s voters.



FILE - An election worker gathers tabulated ballots to be boxed inside the Maricopa County Recorders Office on Nov. 10, 2022, in Phoenix. A second Republican-controlled Arizona county on Monday, Nov. 21, delayed certifying the results of this month's election as a protest against voting issues in Maricopa County that some GOP officials have blamed for their losses in top races including the contest for governor. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)


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[msongs]

1. jail time if they have no problem in their own jurisdiction and are being obstructionist nt

[AZSkiffyGeek]

4. These are Red Counties, I say don't count the votes

We can use the extra Democrats.

[msongs]

6. good idea nt

[lees1975]

7. I agree. If one of the two doesn't certify, then the Congressional race in District 6 flips

to the Democrats.

They're complaining about the counting time. The issues with the ballots in the few precincts that had problems was resolved that day and even Lake supporters couldn't find a single person who had been "disenfranchised" and whose votes didn't count.

One of those counties, Cochise, where some of Arizona's most ignorant and uninformed people live, had supervisors who wanted to require a hand count of the ballots. Talk about all the time it would take, not to mention the inaccuracy or the opportunity for Republicans to cheat.

The ballot counting issues in Arizona are the result of its conservative, Republican controlled legislature. This is the same group that recruited the Cyber Ninjas to "audit" ballots in 2020, without the authority to do so, and wasted taxpayer dollars on a group that couldn't get the job done and wound up declaring bankruptcy and bailing. Kari Lake and Blake Masters should have done their homework before whining about problems created by members of their own party.

[SheltieLover]

9. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[alfredo]

15. I saw the read out of the totals and the recount. There seems to be little error.

I think I saw two, in separate races, and the one vote wouldn't have decided the race.. That was for the whole state. I think I found it on the Az SoS site.

[yankee87]

12. Great idea

Don't count their votes

[JohnSJ]

2. Should the DOJ be involved now?

[ColinC]

13. At least in this case they vow to certify they results

By the deadline. Seems like an empty gesture, but nothing illegal apparently

[JohnSJ]

14. Good point, at least so far

[sop]

3. Too bad the Cyber Ninjas went out of business.

[Marthe48]

5. You don't like the results because you're in a minority?

Move. Move out of this country because you are prestending you don't understand the process of voting to elect an official. You pretend you don't understand that the person who gets the majority of votes is the winner. But you know how it works and you are acting like petulant losers.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

8. They're the majority in those counties

These are Republicans who don’t want to certify majority votes that went for their candidates. This would flip one house seat, probably the secretary of Education out here.

[Effete Snob]

10. Yep, fuck 'em

[Marthe48]

11. They might be the majority in their county

but if they are trying to stop a certification of state totals, they are willfully acting against voting laws, regulations, just wrong.

[moonshinegnomie]

16. a simple solution

the deadline to certify is nov 28th. If they fail to do so then just discard all the votes from those GOP leaning counties. and if that means that any seat is unfilled because they have no votes then let the new democratic governor appoint people to fill the seats