Cochise county appoints Bob Bartelsmeyer, elections director who has shared social media posts with election fraud claims
Before he came to La Paz county, Bartelsmeyer served as a county clerk in Missouri and held elections-related roles in Arizona, Florida and New Mexico,In comments to the supervisors at a public meeting Tuesday, Bartelsmeyer tried to distance himself from his social media posts, saying they had been “distorted” by the media and that he was a private citizen, not overseeing elections, at the time he posted them.
He defended his experience in elections and said he had the “utmost respect” for former Cochise county elections director Lisa Marra. He said La Paz county administrators gave him high marks in his year as elections director and he was ready to serve a larger county like Cochise. He said he is in favor of machine counting, which he called “99.9% accurate,” and hand-counting a percentage of ballots to compare to machine results.
“I want to be honest and fair in every election,” Bartelsmeyer said. “Do you think that there is a perfect election? No. There is never a perfect election because you deal with human error.” While many election deniers in high-profile races in Arizona and other swing states lost their bids for office last year, there are still, from local officials to statewide officeholders, throughout the US who believe there is widespread fraud that’s led to stolen elections, despite a lack of evidence.
In several counties in swing states, Republicans who believe fraud claims have taken over local boards or roles in charge of elections, giving more prominent voices to these claims. In Spalding county, Georgia, Republicans
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