Officials in Republican-controlled Cochise County refused to certify its local midterm election results by the state's legal deadline, putting more than 47,000 Arizonans' votes at risk.
The Arizona secretary of state's office was also planning to file a lawsuit on Monday, spokesperson Sophia Solis said by email.may end up left out of official results after the local board of elections deadlocked along party lines when its fifth member, a Democrat, abstained from voting on whether to certify. Monday is the state's certification deadline for counties that have not received legally valid recount petitions.
after the hearing that he planned to vote in favor of certifying at another meeting, set for Wednesday.For the most part, however, the local certification of midterm election results has proceeded without much controversyIn the corner of Arizona opposite of Cochise County, another Republican-controlled community — Mohave County — signaled it was close not to certifying election results.
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