Election Officials In Battleground States Receive Suspicious Mail Election officials in battleground states facing concerns over suspicious mail ahead of November election. Top News · Sep 19, 2024
‘Chaos will be created’: Arizona court hears election-subversion case – with eyes on 2024 Implications of the lawsuit could extend beyond Cochise county, if local officials try similar tactics in November The Guardian - US · May 3, 2024
Recall effort against Arizona election denier fails An effort to remove an Arizona county supervisor over election denial has failed The Independent UK · May 4, 2023
Arizona county's new elections head shared voter fraud memes A rural Arizona county where leaders have embraced voting machine conspiracies has hired an elections director who has promoted the false claims that voter fraud cost former President Donald Trump reelection in 2020 The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2023
Arizona county hires election director who spread false claims about 2020 Cochise county appoints Bob Bartelsmeyer, elections director who has shared social media posts with election fraud claims The Guardian - US · Apr 25, 2023
Could election denialism in a feuding Arizona county upend US democracy? Republicans in Cochise county who undermined midterm election gain control in critical swing state for 2024 The Guardian - US · Mar 16, 2023
Why the 2024 election cycle could result in more threats to US democracy “I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution.” These were the words of former US president Donald Trump during an address to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on March 4. In a speech laced with threats… The Conversation · Mar 8, 2023
Arizona county board votes to give recorder election duties A rural Arizona county board that was embroiled last year in voting machine conspiracies has voted to give all election duties through 2024 to the county’s elected Republican recorder The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023
Republican losses fan election conspiracies in rural Arizona Election losses by Republican candidates last year who denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential results have only added fuel to voting conspiracies in rural Arizona The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2023
Arizona: elections director in county that refused to certify results quits Lisa Marra, who worked in Republican Cochise county, condemns ‘physically and emotionally threatening’ work environment The Guardian - US · Jan 26, 2023
Arizona county board delays certifying election results The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders had hoped to recount all Election Day ballots is refusing to certify the results of last week’s vote The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022
Arizona county leaders end hand-count lawsuit, cite recount Two Republicans who control the board in a rural southeastern Arizona county now want to withdraw a lawsuit they filed two days ago seeking to force their own elections director to hand-count all the ballots cast in-person on Election Day The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022
Fight over election tally threatens Arizona certification The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own election director to force her to conduct a greatly expanded hand count of ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2022
Arizona county's plan to hand-count ballots blocked by judge A judge has blocked a rural Arizona county's plan to hand-count all the ballots in this week’s election The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2022
Axios · Aug 11, 2022 House report details grisly threats to election workers "I think we should end your bloodline," one official was told.