The midterm elections are a little over three weeks away —-and some Cochise County Supervisors were thinking of adding a hand count of all the ballots in time for that election.
Suspicions about whether the last election was honest just will not go away, so there’s been a movement to add a hand count to the electronic count Cochise, and most counties have been using.
Out of 22 speakers, we counted 13 for the hand count and nine opposed. Joseph Patterson told Supervisors they don’t want to throw out electronic ballot counts, they just want to add a hundred percent hand count as what they call a confidence builder. But hand count opponents say if the Cochise County system is suspect, what does that say about the last election where Republicans carried almost every race? They see a last-minute call for a hand count as an effort to cast doubt on the election results.
In an afternoon study session to explore actually enacting a hand count, assistant county attorney Christine Roberts told the board that state law simply does not give County Supervisors authority to order a hundred percent hand count unless state lawmakers specifically allow it.
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