Posted on 11/29/2023 12:56:37 PM PST by Coronal
A grand jury voted to indict two local officials who delayed the certification of midterm election results in 2022 in Cochise County, Arizona, state Attorney General Kris Mayes said Wednesday.
Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd, 61, and Tom Crosby, 64, voted against certifying the county’s election results by the statutory deadline in 2022, after months of casting baseless doubt on the integrity of the election. The county only certified its election results after a court ordered them to do so.
The indictment alleges that Judd and Crosby committed two felonies by conspiring to delay the certification of election results and interfering with the secretary of state’s statewide canvas. Both are Class 5 felonies, which can carry prison terms of 6 months to 2.5 years.
“The repeated attempts to undermine our democracy are unacceptable,” Mayes, a Democrat, said in a statement.
While each state's election laws differ, local officials’ stamp of approval is often required during the election certification process across the country.
If Cochise hadn't certified their results by the statewide deadline and the state had been forced to affirm their election results without including the Republican county's 47,000 votes, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani would have lost his race for the U.S. House.
The fight in Cochise County began well before the election, as Judd and Crosby cast baseless doubt on the voting machines and sought to do a hand count of all the ballots, something state law doesn't permit. The pair also sued the county elections director, Lisa Marra, who later quit her job after five years running the county's elections.
Judd participated in the Jan. 6th “Stop the Steal” rally in 2021, but denied entering the Capitol or any wrongdoing in an interview with the Tuscon Sentinel. The paper also reported that she has spread conspiracy theories online.
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This is the kind of government you get when the hookers and piggies take over.
Can you be indicted if you don’t vote for the ‘RATs?
Lawfare.....................
Is that in any way comparable to the “baseless doubt” reasonable people have that NBC and other msm outlets are unbiased?
the Tuscon Sentinel.
Nice proofreading - this is an eighth-grade spelling mistake. It’s Tucson. Sheesh...
If you have to certify, why vote to certify ?
If you can be indicted for voting the wrong way, you’re vote is mere theater.
Arizona is corrupt.
Soviet style “Wrecking” charges.
Might be nice if you actually went to the trouble of identifying the photo! Or should we just guess?
“Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd, 61, and Tom Crosby, 64, voted against certifying the county’s election results by the statutory deadline in 2022...”
Are their ages relevant to this report?
It’s the author of the NBC screed, Jane C. Timm.
I put her name in the mouse-over section, but it doesn’t appear in smartphone screens.
Nor on desk top computer screens.
You don’t use a mouse?
I mentioned that the name appears with “mouse-over”, i.e. when the mouse cursor moves over the picture.
Well, 2 of the County Supervisors wanted to do a hand count in Cochise County. All counties are required to use the same method of counting votes, counties can’t pick and choose different methods.
“If Cochise hadn’t certified their results by the statewide deadline and the state had been forced to affirm their election results without including the Republican county’s 47,000 votes, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani would have lost his race for the U.S. House.”
Cochise is pretty red, Trump carried the county about 60-40 over Biden. Breaking the law and refusing to certify results from a Republican county looks kind of stupid.
The article reads like a 1930’s Pravda story.
Mayes is still in the “maybe” column as to her own election status - “winning” by 150 “votes” which are still in court - but yet she recklessly rolls the dice on which ham sandwich she wants to imprison.
Never in Arizona’s history has anyone pulled crap like this.
The real question is, will the “Republicans” stay still, or will they get a recall going - she’d lose, hands down. She didn’t actually win the general.
Maybe watching their friends led off in handcuffs by Kris Maye’s freak stasi will encourage them to do so.
Those scofflaws wanted to undermine democracy by carefully counting the ballots to verify that the results were accurate.
Ten teams could easily hand-count 47,000 votes in about 3-4 days.
Wish I could be on the jury, but I guess any juror who votes Not Guilty will be prosecuted for undermining dictatorship.
Preposterous abuse of authority.
Dat be true.......
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