“Arizona Officials Charged With Conspiring to Delay Election Results”

From NYT:

Two Republican county supervisors in Arizona were indicted Wednesday on felony charges related to their attempts to delay the certification of 2022 election results.

Kris Mayes, the state attorney general, announced in a statement that Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby, two of the three supervisors in Cochise County, face charges of interference with an election officer and conspiracy, criticizing what she described as their “repeated attempts to undermine our democracy.”

Neither Ms. Judd nor Mr. Crosby could be reached for comment Wednesday.

Last year, Ms. Judd and Mr. Crosby sought to order a hand count of the ballots that had been cast in Cochise, a heavily Republican rural county, citing conspiracy theories that had been raised by local right-wing activists. When a judge ruled against them, they voted to delay certification of the election before eventually relenting under pressure of a court order.

The episode was closely watched by democracy advocates and election law experts, who saw in the supervisors’ machinations a worrying precedent.

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