Elections

These Counties Already Want a Recount and the Votes Aren’t Even In Yet

HERE WE GO

Groups with ties to 2020 audits in Arizona and elsewhere are preemptively demanding hand recounts as part of a larger war on voting machines.

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The morning before polls opened in Cochise County, Arizona, a judge still had not ruled on how local votes would be counted.

On one side of the case were state officials and voters who opposed an effort to audit Tuesday’s election by hand.

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