Arizona officials who refused to canvass election results face criminal charges
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In December 2022, Cochise County certified election results only after a judge ruled the officials, both Republicans, were breaking the law by refusing to sign off on the vote count by the deadline.
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Republican officials of Arizona's Cochise County face criminal charges after they risked more than 47,000 people's votes for the 2022 midterm elections by refusing to certify them by the deadline.
In December 2022, Cochise County certified election results only after a judge ruled the officials, both Republicans, were breaking the law by refusing to sign off on the vote count by the deadline.
An indictment accuses two Cochise County supervisors of interfering with the state canvass of votes. The county has been a hotbed of election conspiracy theories.
Officials in a rural Arizona county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been criminally charged, the state's top prosecutor said Wednesday.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted two local Republican officials who balked at certifying their county’s general election results by the legal deadline in 2022 – in a standoff with state officials that drew national attention at the time.
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