Arizona attorney general sues to stop county election switch

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Published March 7, 2023 3:17 PM

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Associated Press

Arizona’s Democratic attorney general is suing a rural, Republican-controlled county to stop it from transferring all election duties from a nonpartisan office to the elected county recorder. The lawsuit is the latest legal dispute between the state and Cochise County over its embrace of election conspiracy theories. Last fall, a judge blocked the county from counting ballots by hand as requested by election deniers. Then a judge had to order the county supervisors to certify the election after they refused to do so, protesting what they claimed was fraud in Maricopa County.

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