Two county supervisors in Arizona who stalled certifying mid-term election results have been charged by the state’s attorney general with conspiracy and interfering with an election officer.
In the Nov. 27 indictment filed in the superior court of Arizona, Terry Crosby and Peggy Judd, supervisors in Cochise County, are facing two felony counts for initially refusing to certify the county’s 2022 election results, and face penalties of six months to two-and-a-half years in prison.
The indictment alleges Mr. Crosby and Ms. Judd conspired to delay Cochise County’s vote canvass and knowingly interfered with the secretary of state’s ability to complete a statewide vote canvass by the deadline. At the time, Judge Casey McGinley of the Pima County Superior Court instructed Cochise County’s board of three supervisors to convene and declare the election results official.
Judge McGinley’s ruling came three days after the Nov. 28, 2022, statutory deadline was missed. The failure of supervisors to certify the results before the state’s legal deadline was also found to be illegal. Cochise County was the only jurisdiction that did not certify the results by the deadline.
Mr. Crosby and Ms. Judd…
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