Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says her office is filing a lawsuit against Cochise County for its recent move to assign election duties to its County recorder David Stevens.
The vote came in late February, about a month after Lisa Marra resigned from her role as the county's Elections Director.
"In addition to this broad transfer of power, I am deeply concerned this move might shield or obscure actions and deliberations the Board would typically conduct publicly under open meeting law," Mayes continued. County recorders, who are elected partisan officials, already have a role in state elections—registering voters, distributing ballots and verifying signatures. Election duties such as counting the ballots fall under the scope of non-partisan, non-elected elections directors.
The Board and Recorder repeatedly flouted the law with respect to the November 2022 general election, first by attempting to engage in an illegal hand count of ballots and then by the Board violating its duty to canvass the election within the statutory time frame.
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