Residents of Arizona's "election denying" Cochise County can redeem themselves with a recall.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/12/residents-of-cochise-county-arizona.html

Since the almost disastrous stonewalling, delaying and violating the law by refusing to certify their county's ballots by the state's legal deadline, there's been a lot of talk in Cochise County, Arizona about the possibility of recalling county supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby. Their refusal to follow the law, resulting from their belief in baseless and unproven conspiracy theories about vote counting machines, and as an attempt to stop statewide certification of the election by withholding their own certification of votes, is grossly negligent and irresponsible. It is a demonstration of incompetence which sends a clear message to voters that they are not qualified to serve, and are willing to put their own interests and politics ahead of their responsibility to the county's residents.

There have been multiple calls for these two supervisors to resign. They put the 55,000 or so votes from Democrats, Republicans and Independents in the county at risk of not being counted. Had the Secretary of State allowed that to happen, subtracting those votes from all of the elections that would have been affected would have resulted in Democratic candidates winning the District 6 congressional seat and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction elections. That risk was incredibly irresponsible, and a demonstration of a lack of respect for the will of the voters that is unpatriotic and anti-American.

A strong showing of voters in a recall election that ousts the two election deniers would be a great opportunity for the county to get some of its reputation back as the historic center of the old Southwest instead of forever being associated as the election denying county. Getting two Democrats to join the third one on the county board of supervisors, who, unlike Crosby and Judd, respect the law and for American democracy, would make great headlines. So we encourage those who are thinking seriously about launching the recall to do so. It may be difficult but it will be worth it.

[lees1975]

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