The board of supervisors in a southern Arizona county will meet to consider counting nearly all ballots cast in-person on Election Day, despite an earlier court order limiting the hand-count driven by unfounded distrust in machines that tabulate votes.
PHOENIX — The board of supervisors in a southern Arizona county will meet next week to consider counting nearly all the ballots cast in-person on Election Day, despite an earlier court order limiting the hand-count driven by unfounded distrust in machines that tabulate votes.
Elected County Attorney Brian McIntyre told the board and its lawyers in a Thursday letter that going forward with the plan could lead to felony charges against the participants for violating numerous laws. It will also not go unchallenged by the group that sued and won a court order on Monday to stop it. They vowed another challenge if Cochise County officials veer from the court order.
“They are wishing to take part in this way to help people who have lost trust in elections to see that elections are reliable and secure in our county," the agenda says. “Two other results of this hand count will be simply a larger random selection audit of machine accuracy and a test of our back-up plan in case some or all of our machines become compromised or fail at last minute.”
State law lays out the rules for hand-count audits that are used to verify the machines used to tallying votes in Arizona. For Election Day ballots, counties can choose 2% of the county's precincts, or two precincts, for the hand-count. The ruling says the board can expand that, but only if it is done randomly.
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