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Republican David W.
Stevens is a former member of the Arizona
House of Representatives, representing
District 25 from 2009 to 2013 and District
14 from 2013 to 2017. Before winning office,
Stevens ran unsuccessfully in 2002 and 2004. He was elected Cochise
County Recorder in the 2022 election. |
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'$200K Gone
To Waste' As
Arizona
County Buys
Unusable
'Fraud-Proof'
Ballot Paper |
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"Tall tales
about China
influencing
the 2020
presidential
election
with
nefarious
bamboo-filled
ballots were
ridiculed by
most
elections
experts --
but not by
Cochise
County
Recorder David
Stevens.
CNN's Donie
O'Sullivan
reported on
Friday that
Stevens has
invested
$200,000 in
purported
"fraud-proof"
paper to use
for ballots
in
elections,
only to see
the returns
on that
investment
go up in
smoke. In an
interview
with
O'Sullivan,
Stevens
defended his
decision to
buy the
special
ballot paper
due to
unverified
"concerns"". |
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Mar. 15,
2024 |
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Arizona
Pilot For
Secure
Ballot Paper
Won’t Move
Forward As
Planned |
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"Cochise
County
supervisors
on Tuesday
voted 1-2
against
extending
the time
period for a
$1 million
state grant
for the
secure
ballot paper
that expired
in May —
this means
County
Recorder David
Stevens’
proposed
contract
with
Authentix
will not
move
forward.
Supervisors
Ann English
and Peggy
Judd voted
no, and
Supervisor
Tom Crosby
voted yes.
The “no”
vote means
that Stevens
will only be
able to use
supplies he
had already
ordered from
Runbeck
Election
Services,
which cost
$187,500, to
test
watermarks
on ballots
as part of
the pilot,
and will not
be able to
hire
Authentix
and one
other
company that
had applied
separately
for the
work,
ProVoteSolutions.
An item on
Tuesday’s
meeting to
approve a
contract
with the two
companies
was
nullified. Texas-based
Authentix
has
partnered
with former
state Rep. Mark
Finchem to
try to make
its security
products
mandatory on
ballots
across the
country. A
Votebeat
investigation
published
earlier this
month found
that Stevens
— a good
friend of
Finchem —
appeared to
have
tailored the
Cochise
pilot to fit
Authentix’s
products." |
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Aug. 23,
2023 |
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Cochise
County
Elections
Official
Questions
Petition
Gatherers |
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"Petition
gatherers
for the
Recall Tom
Crosby campaign
were
approached
by Cochise
County
Recorder and
Interim
Elections
Director
David
Stevens
Friday
morning, who
claimed that
they were
illegally
gathering
signatures
on federal
land near
the Hereford
Post Office.
[...] McCloy
said that he
had
permission
to gather
signatures
on the
property, to
which McCloy
said Stevens
replied,
“‘well,
there might
be some
mistake, but
this is
federal
property —
post office
property —
and it’s
illegal to
do anything
political.
And
therefore,
you must
leave. And I
said ‘well,
that’s not
the way I
understand
it.’ Then,
he said
‘well, I’ll
call the
Sheriff.’
And he went
ahead and
did.” |
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Apr. 1, 2023 |
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Arizona Sues
After County
Puts An
Election
Skeptic In
Charge Of
Voting |
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"The
county’s
nonpartisan
elections
director,
Lisa Marra,
announced in
January that
she would
resign,
citing
threats
against her
after she
refused to
comply with
rogue
election
directives
from the
Republicans
who control
county
government,
including
plans to
count
ballots by
hand after
last year’s
midterm
elections.
She recently
accepted a
position
with the
secretary of
state’s
office. The
county’s
board of
supervisors
then made David
W. Stevens,
the
Republican
recorder,
the interim
elections
director,
with the
board’s two
G.O.P.
members
supporting
the new
power
structure in
a Feb. 28
vote, and
its lone
Democrat
opposing it.
On Tuesday,
Kris Mayes,
who was
narrowly
elected as
Arizona’s
attorney
general in
November and
took office
in January,
filed a
lawsuit
against the
county and
called the
power shift
an
“unqualified
handover.”
Mr. Stevens,
a defendant
in the
lawsuit, has
close ties
to Mark
Finchem,
a former
state
representative
and vocal
election
denier who
was recently
punished by
a judge for
a frivolous
lawsuit that
had
challenged
his loss in
the 2022
secretary of
state’s
race." |
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Mar. 8, 2023 |
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How An
Arizona
official Is
Making
Cochise
County A “Laboratory”
For Election
Skepticism |
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"Recorder
David
Stevens — a
close ally
to Mark
Finchem —
pursued the
county’s
illegal plan
to hand
count
midterm
ballots and
stands to
take more
control of
elections
there."
[...] "David
Stevens had
never
supervised a
ballot
count. He
didn’t know
how he would
count nearly
50,000
ballots by
hand, who
would help,
or where he
would find
enough space
to do it.
But that
didn’t
dissuade
him. Less
than a month
before the
November
election,
Stevens, the
Cochise
County
recorder,
told the
county
supervisors
he would be
happy to
try. Arizona
GOP leaders
had spent
two years
promoting
unfounded
claims about
compromised
vote-counting
machines,
and were
scouring the
state for a
county that
would
willingly
hand-count
ballots.
They found
it in
Cochise
County,
where
Stevens
grasped onto
the idea,
devised a
plan, and
stoked the
sentiment
starting to
take hold
locally." |
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Feb. 7, 2023 |
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| Center for Arizona Policy |
| 2014 Candidate Questionnaire |
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| Position Sought: State Representative LD-14 |
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| Question 9: Arizona’s voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage should be defended to the fullest extent legally possible. |
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| Candidates' Position: Support |
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| Question 11: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in antidiscrimination law. |
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| Candidates' Position: Oppose |
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| Question 15: Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.* |
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| Candidates' Position: Support |
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| * Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws. |
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Corruption
At The
Arizona
Capitol |
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"Then
there is
Rep. David
Stevens (R-Sierra
Vista) who
is trying to
fix a
contract for
his favorite
lobbyist" |
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Mar. 30,
2014 |
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Representative
David
Stevens
Wants To Pay
Bureaucrats
To Stall Public
Records
Requests |
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Feb. 19,
2014 |
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PLEASE NOTE: A "Yes" vote would allow ranch dogs to be neglected or abandoned, killed and tortured. It would allow the owner of a ranch dog to inflict unnecessary injury to the animal and not provide medical attention. |
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| Center for Arizona Policy |
| 2012 Candidate Questionnaire |
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| Position Sought: State Representative LD-14 |
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| Question 9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. |
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| Candidates' Position: Support |
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| Question 11: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law. |
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| Candidates' Position: Oppose |
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| Question 15: Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.* |
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| Candidates' Position: Support |
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| * Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws. |
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| Center for Arizona Policy |
| 2010 Survey Questions For Arizona And County Candidates |
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| Position Sought: State Representative LD-25 |
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| Question 9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. |
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| Candidates' Position: Support |
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| Question 12: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law. |
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| Candidates' Position: Oppose |
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| Question 15: Protecting professionals from being required to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.* |
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| Candidates' Position: Support |
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| * Discriminatory "Religious Freedom" laws. |
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| Center for Arizona Policy |
| 2008 Survey Questions For Arizona Candidates |
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| Position Sought: State Representative LD-25 |
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| Question 9: Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. |
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| Candidates' Position: Support |
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| Question 11: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law. |
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| Candidates' Position: Oppose |
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