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The Guardian reports:
In the year since two elected officials in rural Arizona tried to hand-count ballots then refused to certify an election, the consequences have started to trickle in. Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby, the two Republican supervisors in Cochise county who led these efforts, were recently subpoenaed as part of an investigation by the state’s attorney general.
The Republican-led county has had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and settlements for the lawsuits it faced in the wake of Crosby and Judd’s decisions. They have lost in court multiple times in their quest to prevent machine counting – part of an ongoing rightwing effort to switch to hand counts – and stall election results.
The rural, red county has became a microcosm of far-right election fervor that’s featured a host of conspiracies and attempts to curtail voting access.
Read the full article. So far, the county has paid out $300,000 in legal costs and to settle workplace harassment lawsuits. Judd has said she’s willing to go to jail to stop supposed election fraud. Crosby has launched a money beg on the Christian crowdfunding site favored by literal Nazis and Capitol rioters. As you can see, so far he’s raised less than 3% of his goal.
I have been an elections integrity proponent since before it became popular. I have heard that a grand jury subpeona is almost a guaranteed indictment. If that is the case, I would expect to go to trial, and be stuck with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars of court costs and legal fees. If my legal adversary is successful in defeating me, it will intimidate other AZ County Supervisors into falling in line with the globalist plans of compromised elections, and forced use of voting machines.
‘The poison continues to spread’: legal losses fail to quell election denial hotbed https://t.co/6kQCYDXjuz
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) November 25, 2023