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Cochise County

Dec 20, 2024

Peggy Judd: Just here to do her job

As she reflects now on her career, Judd said she never wanted to be political, she just wanted to do her job. 

Oct 21, 2024

Cochise County supervisor pleas guilty for delaying 2022 election certification

Cochise County Supervisor Peggy Judd pled guilty to a single misdemeanor for delaying certification of the 2022 election and avoided felony charges as part of a plea deal extended by […]

Voting rights
Sep 29, 2024

Federal court rules part of Arizona election manual illegal

A federal judge late Friday blocked Secretary of State Adrian Fontes from refusing to include a county's vote in the statewide totals if the local supervisors failed to certify the results, calling what he proposed "utterly without precedent'' and comparing it to a nuclear weapon.

Jul 16, 2024

Inside the private pressure campaign to force hand-counting of Arizona ballots

Republican lawmakers in Arizona privately pressured county leaders across the state to count ballots by hand instead of using machines, according to previously unreported text messages.

May 1, 2024

Gov. Hobbs vetoes bills to curb AG’s groundwater plan

Gov. Katie Hobbs won't let Republican lawmakers strip away the right of Attorney General Kris Mayes to sue the owners of corporate farms whose groundwater pumping dries up the wells of their neighbors.

Dec 21, 2023

2 Cochise County officials arraigned in election certification case

Two Cochise County supervisors pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges for delaying the certification of their county's 2022 midterm election results. 

Dec 18, 2023

Kolodin files Bar complaint against Cochise County attorney

An attorney involved in the legal dispute over whether Cochise County could do a full hand count of ballots now is seeking to have the State Bar of Arizona sanction the county attorney who had told the supervisors the move would be illegal.

indictment, Cochise County Board of Supervisors, Peggy Judd, Tom Crosby
Nov 30, 2023

Resigning office under indictment could be poor strategy

Indicted Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby has no plans of resigning after the state grand jury charged him and his colleague Supervisor, Chairwoman Peggy Judd on two felony counts for delaying certification of the 2022 election.

Gowan, border, Arizona, Tucson, Texas, Biden administration
Nov 9, 2023

Gowan, other officials come to Washington to plead for border action

In all the time he’s lived near the border, Sen. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, said he has never seen an immigration crisis as bad as the one he’s seeing now.

Judd, Crosby, indictment, 2022 election
Oct 30, 2023

Cochise County officials who refused to certify election now under investigation by Arizona attorney general

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is investigating two Cochise County supervisors who refused to certify the county’s midterm election results by the state-required deadline. 

Lake, ballots, Maricopa County attorneys, election contest, ballot affidavit envelopes, public records
Oct 18, 2023

Court rules counties can’t hand-count all ballots in elections

Arizona counties are prohibited by law from hand-counting all ballots in an election, even if they want to do so because county leaders have bought into conspiracy theories that say vote tabulation machines are untrustworthy, the state Court of Appeals ruled.

Sep 24, 2023

‘Gatekeeper’ Rep. Griffin thwarts groundwater bills

Rural Arizonans are growing increasingly frustrated with Rep. Gail Griffin’s inaction on groundwater regulation.  

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