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Hansi Lo Wang

Arizona's Cochise County finally certifies its election results after a court order

A man walks out after casting his vote on Election Day 2020 in Tombstone, Ariz., in Cochise County. (Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images)

Under a court order, officials in Republican-controlled Cochise County, Ariz., finally certified their local midterm elections results after they missed the state's legal deadline and put more than 47,000 people's votes at risk.

Ruling from the bench at a court hearing on Thursday, Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley ordered the county's board of supervisors to meet and make the results official by 5 p.m. MT Thursday.

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