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Arizona's Cochise County finally certifies its election results after a court order
Last edited Thu Dec 1, 2022, 09:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: NPR
Under a court order, officials in Republican-controlled Cochise County, Ariz., finally certified their local midterm elections results after they missed the state's legal deadline and put more than 47,000 people's votes at risk.
Ruling from the bench at a court hearing on Thursday, Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley ordered the county's board of supervisors to meet and make the results official by 5 p.m. MT Thursday.
Two members of the board Ann English, a Democrat, and Peggy Judd, a Republican then voted to certify, while the board's third member Tom Crosby, a Republican did not attend the court-ordered meeting.
The court order came three days after the board's two Republicans voted Monday not to certify the results despite finding no legitimate problems with the counts turning a usually uneventful step in the election process into a closely watched controversy. The move prompted multiple lawsuits, including one by the state's secretary of state, who has been waiting for the county's results to proceed with the statewide certification that is legally required to take place next week.
Ruling from the bench at a court hearing on Thursday, Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley ordered the county's board of supervisors to meet and make the results official by 5 p.m. MT Thursday.
Two members of the board Ann English, a Democrat, and Peggy Judd, a Republican then voted to certify, while the board's third member Tom Crosby, a Republican did not attend the court-ordered meeting.
The court order came three days after the board's two Republicans voted Monday not to certify the results despite finding no legitimate problems with the counts turning a usually uneventful step in the election process into a closely watched controversy. The move prompted multiple lawsuits, including one by the state's secretary of state, who has been waiting for the county's results to proceed with the statewide certification that is legally required to take place next week.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140086777/midterm-elections-cochise-county-arizona-ruling
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Arizona's Cochise County finally certifies its election results after a court order (Original Post)
brooklynite
Dec 2022
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duhneece
(4,112 posts)1. Basically the same thing that happened in Otero County
Cowboys for Trump county here
with Couy Griffin still harassing me and DUer Stephanie DuBois, who took out a restraining order on him.
And our own election denier was in Arizona and CNN & MSNBC.
Theyre not through.
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)2. All from lies. That's all they have. Keep us posted please
Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)3. Just wait until you meet
the people who run against them because they did do it. That should be a fun bunch. They will probably come to a debate with an AR-15 in their hands.
MissMillie
(38,553 posts)4. great paragraph from the Canadian Press article on this
"The board members represented themselves in court after struggling to find someone willing to take the cases. The elected county attorney, who normally represents the board in legal disputes, refused to handle the cases, saying the supervisors acted illegally. The board voted hours before the hearing to hire a Phoenix-area attorney, but he was not able to get up to speed before the hearing and did not inform the court he was representing the supervisors."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arizona-county-certifies-election-after-judge-s-order/ar-AA14NJqk?cvid=a89bf49f767942eabbcbfae8d45089ac
(Adding this wherever I can as we're still coming up quite short: https://gofund.me/6f42a1e1 )
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,944 posts)5. Good