Mohave County plans on doing a hand count of 2024 general election ballots
From the AZMirror on 6/7/2023: "A day after supervisors in a northwestern Arizona county voted to request a plan to hand-count ballots in the 2024 presidential election, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes sent a letter to Mohave County supervisors on Tuesday telling them he is concerned that moving forward would break state and federal laws, potentially be insecure, and would lead to inaccurate results.
“Hand counting ballots is incredibly prone to human error, which results in a time-intensive process to arrive at correct, final results,” Fontes, a Democrat, wrote. “However, even assuming correct and final results, state law does not allow county boards … to unilaterally substitute a hand count for certified and tested electronic tabulation equipment.”"
Commentary by Bob Karp: We have seen the results of this decision by the Cochise County Board of Supervisors two Republican officials, Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby. Multiple lawsuits, the respected county Elections Director quitting and ultimately winning a toxic workplace lawsuit in the amount of $130,000 and lawyers fees and other costs paid by county taxpayers in excess of $190,000. Now the Elections Director is the handpicked applicant of County Recorder David Stevens another Republican who sides with the Tom Crosby and other election deniers including a losing Republican candidate for Arizona Secretary of State is known to have posted on social media that he also is an election denier.
Two things stand out: the Republican majority on the Board of Supervisors is willing to ignore legal advice from the County Attorney and the courts, as well as be fiscally irresponsible with taxpayer dollars by engaging in actions that make governing the county more difficult.
County voters should be very worried that elections procedures going forwarded may be tainted with partisan meddling by the board, Recorder and Elections Director. Democrats particularly should we warry of the process of validating nomination petitions for their August 2024 primary.
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