Republican Arizona legislator Justin Heap has been elected to oversee elections in the state’s most populous county. The Maricopa County recorder-elect has criticized how elections are administered in the jurisdiction of some 4.5 million, calling them insecure.
FILE - Maricopa County Recorder candidate Arizona state Rep. Justin Heap, R-Phoenix, speaks during a campaign event Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Peoria, Ariz.
Heap could dramatically alter the way elections are handled in Maricopa County, the fourth-largest U.S. county with a population of some 4.5 million and a hotbed of conspiracy theories about the vote following President-elect Donald Trump’s loss in 2020. Richer has endured harassment — even death threats — and a flood of misinformation while defending the legitimacy of the vote over four years in one of the nation’s most closely watched political battlegrounds. His office fought off criticism over the results of the
“I am humbled and honored to have been elected as the next Maricopa County Recorder,” Heap said in a victory statement Wednesday, shortly after Stringham conceded. “I intend to fulfill my promise of being a Recorder for every voter because protecting the integrity of our elections is an issue that impacts us all.”
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