https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-12-07-az-county-supervisors-charged-with-election-interference.html
dec 7 2023 Two Cochise County supervisors have been indicted on election interference and conspiracy. Arizona's Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes announced the charges in a media release.
On Wednesday, Mayes, who was narrowly elected as the state's attorney general last year after multiple recounts, revealed that a State Grand Jury had returned felony indictments against Willcox's Peggy Suzanne Judd, 61 and Sierra Vista's Terry Thomas "Tom" Crosby, 64. Judd and Crosby are both Republicans
The indictment, which was marked as a rare instance of criminally prosecuting people connected to the vote canvassing being dragged out last year in six Arizona counties, indicated that the two supervisors "knowingly interfered with the Arizona Secretary of State's ability to complete the statewide canvass for the 2022 General Election by preventing the canvass of votes from Cochise County from occurring during the period required by Arizona law."
In December 2022, Cochise County certified election results only after a judge ruled Crosby and Judd were breaking the law by refusing to sign off on the vote count by the deadline. The two said they weren't satisfied that the machines used to tabulate ballots were properly certified for use in elections. This prompted lawsuits including one from then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat..
