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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Rachel Leingang

‘The poison continues to spread’: legal losses fail to quell election denial hotbed

Members of the public attend a Cochise county board of supervisors meeting on 14 February 2023 in Bisbee, Arizona.
Members of the public attend a Cochise county board of supervisors meeting on 14 February 2023 in Bisbee, Arizona. Photograph: Alberto Mariani/AP

In the year since two elected officials in rural Arizona tried to hand-count ballots then refused to certify an election, the consequences have started to trickle in.

Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby, the two Republican supervisors in Cochise county who led these efforts, were recently subpoenaed as part of an investigation by the state’s attorney general.

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