The Arizona Secretary of State's office is calling for an investigation and “appropriate enforcement action” over two Cochise County supervisors who refused to certify results for the 2022 election.
The Arizona Secretary of State's office is calling for an investigation and "appropriate enforcement action" over two Cochise County supervisors who refused to certify results for the 2022 election.
The office sent a memo to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Dec. 2, claiming that supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd potentially violated state law for not certifying the results by the Nov. 28 deadline. "Supervisors Crosby and Judd knew they had a statutory requirement to canvass the election by November 28, but instead chose to act in violation of the law, putting false election narratives ahead of Cochise County’s voters," wrote Kori Lorick, state elections director in the memo. "This blatant act of defying Arizona’s election laws risks establishing a dangerous precedent that we must discourage.
The refusal to certify by the rural southeastern Arizona county comes amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject results showing Democrats winning top races.Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who narrowly won the race for governor, asked a judge to order county officials to canvass the election, which she said is an obligation under Arizona law.
The lawsuit was filed just hours after the southeastern Arizona county refused to certify results of the 2022 election. Officials have warned that the county has no legal rights to refuse a certification, and that such an act could lead to votes from that county being excluded from a final statewide canvass of election results. FOX 10's Marissa Sarbak reports.
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