Arizona GOP Supervisors Cost County Hundreds of Thousands in Battles Pushing Vote Fraud Claims
Two Republican election supervisors in Cochise County, Arizona have cost the county hundreds of thousands of dollars in their attempt to stop machine counting of ballots in the 2020 election, claiming baseless fears of election fraud.
Republican officials Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby have lost multiple court cases related to the 2020 election, leaving county taxpayers with hefty legal fees, fines, and settlement and insurance coverage costs, reports the Guardian.
A former county elections director also successfully sued the county for $130,000, alleging the pair created a toxic work environment.
President Joe Biden narrowly won Arizona in the 2020 election by .3% of the vote. The thin victory prompted conspiracy theories of a stolen election.
To date, no fraud on the level necessary to change the outcome of the election has been proven by investigations or confirmed by any court. Former President Donald Trump and many of his allies and supporters, however, still claim the election was fraudulent.
Judd and Crosby have now been subpoenaed by the state attorney general, who is investigating their activities concerning the 2020 election and their costly, unfounded claims of fraud, according to the Guardian.
Many voters have hailed the probe as an attempt to get back to sanity. Yet others remain steadfast election deniers.
“Complaints and allegations submitted to the Arizona Attorney General’s office [about the vote] by members of the public were also largely unsupported by factual evidence or found to be mischaracterizations,” Mayes said in a statement earlier this year.
Mayes said complaints included accusations of duplicate votes, satellites controlled by the Italian military changing votes to favor President Biden, bamboo ballots, and significant numbers of dead people voting.
None of the complaints proved to be true.
