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.
The item notes that Stevens has lined up more than 200 volunteers to tally the results of four races. Board Member Peggy Judd did not return a Friday call seeking comment, and Stevens declined to comment further on how and when he would conduct the hand count of the vast majority of the nearly 12,000 votes cast at polling places on Tuesday. Another 27,000 voters cast early ballots, but there's no way around a Pima County Superior Court judge's ruling blocking the expansion of the normal 1% hand-count audit of those ballots.
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