AZ: Cochise County gives election skeptic recorder near full control of elections
Elections in Cochise County will now be run almost entirely by Recorder David Stevens, an election skeptic who has said he does not fully trust all of his countys election procedures and believes the county can and should move to hand-counting ballots.
The Board of Supervisors for the southern Arizona county voted 2-1 on Tuesday afternoon to transfer the boards election oversight to Stevens, giving up their statutorily-prescribed control over the appointment of the countys elections director, Election Day procedures, ballot counting and presentation of election results. Republicans Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd voted yes, and Democrat Chairwoman Ann English voted no.
The supervisors moved forward despite a warning from the attorney generals office they received on Monday night, in which the solicitor general wrote that he had serious concerns about the legality of the drafted agreement.
If you are aware of legal authority for the draft Agreement, please promptly provide it to us, Solicitor General Joshua Bendor wrote.
https://www.azmirror.com/2023/03/01/cochise-county-gives-election-skeptic-recorder-near-full-control-of-elections/