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David Stevens |
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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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Arizona Pilot For Secure Ballot Paper Won’t
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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 |
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2014
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position
Sought: State
Representative
LD-14 |
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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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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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Position: Oppose |
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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 |
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2012
Candidate
Questionnaire |
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Position
Sought: State
Representative
LD-14 |
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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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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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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 |
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2010
Survey
Questions
For
Arizona
And
County
Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State Representative
LD-25 |
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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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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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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 |
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2008 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
State Representative
LD-25 |
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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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