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Tom Crosby |
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Far-right extremist
MAGA Republican.
Conspiracy theorist,
former Sierra Vista,
Arizona Councilman,
Border Patrol agent.
Trump supporter and
vaccine denier.
Currently a member
of the Cochise
County Board of
Supervisors. |
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Arizona
GOP
County
Officials
Face
Charges
After
Refusing
To
Certify
Election
On Time
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Two
Republican
supervisors
of
Arizona's
Cochise
County
are
facing
criminal
charges
after
they
risked
more
than
47,000
people's
votes by
refusing
to meet
the
state's
legal
deadline
for
certifying
the 2022
midterm
elections.
The
supervisors
— Tom
Crosby
and
Peggy
Judd
—
are
charged
with
felony
offenses
of
conspiring
to delay
the
counting
of the
county's
votes
and
interfering
with the
ability
of
Arizona's
top
election
official,
the
secretary
of
state,
to
complete
the
statewide
counting,
according
to the
Nov. 27
indictment
released
by the
Arizona
state
attorney
general's
office
on
Wednesday.
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Nov. 29,
2023 |
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'Chaos':
GOP
Officials
In AZ
County
Cost
Taxpayers
Hundreds
Of
Thousands
In
Election
Fights |
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"Two
Republican
county
supervisors
in a
solidly
red
Arizona
county
are
costing
taxpayers
hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars
in
multiple
unsuccessful
election-related
crusades
in the
courts.
The
Guardian
reports
that
Tom
Crosby
and
Peggy
Judd
— who
both sit
on the
Cochise
County
Board of
Supervisors
— have
now been
subpoenaed
as part
of a
possible
investigation
by the
Arizona
Attorney
General's
office.
Both
Crosby
and Judd
have
tried
consistently
to
switch
the
county's
ballot-counting
process
to a
hand
count
rather
than a
machine
count,
resulting
in
various
lawsuits
against
the
county,
along
with
subsequent
legal
settlements
totaling
roughly
$300,000.
Despite
Cochise
County
voting
for
former
President
Donald
Trump
in 2020
by a
19-point
margin,
Crosby
refused
to
certify
his
county's
election
results
even
after a
judge
compelled
him to
do so." |
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Nov. 25,
2023 |
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Cochise
County
Officials
Who
Refused
To
Certify
The 2022
Election
Are
Being
Investigated
By The
AG |
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"Arizona
Attorney
General
Kris
Mayes
has
subpoenaed
the two
Republican
county
supervisors
to
appear
before a
grand
jury
after
they
refused
to
certify
the 2022
election
results" |
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Oct. 30,
2023 |
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2
Cochise
County
Supervisors
Ordered
To Pay
Legal
Fees |
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"Two
Cochise
County
supervisors
have
been
ordered
to pay
up for
refusing
to
certify
the 2022
election.
A Pima
County
judge
ordered
Republicans
Peggy
Judd and
Tom
Crosby
to pay
more
than
$36,000
in legal
fees.
It's
unclear
if the
money
will
come out
of their
pockets
or if
taxpayers
will
pick up
the tab.
Judd and
Crosby
refused
to
certify
the
county-wide
election
results,
claiming
the
electronic
tabulators
were not
properly
certified,
but they
were
sued by
the
Secretary
of
State's
office
and lost
– and
now have
to pay
the
legal
fees for
the
opposing
side." |
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Apr. 10,
2023 |
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Recall
Petitions
Circulating
For
Cochise
County
Supervisor
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"Petitions
are now
circulating
to
recall
Cochise
County
Supervisor
Tom
Crosby.
The
Committee
to
Recall
Tom
Crosby
says the
reason
is tied
to
Crosby’s
refusal
to
certify
the 2022
midterm
election,
an act
that
violated
Arizona
election
law. In
order to
trigger
a
recall,
The
Committee
to
Recall
Tom
Crosby
has 120
days to
gather
4,865
signatures
within
district
one of
Cochise
County.
Cochise
County
Elections
Director
Lisa
Marra
said
that
only
those
who
reside
within
Crosby’s
district
can sign
petitions.
Eric
Suchodolski,
the
chair of
the
committee,
said the
committee
was
formed
out of
frustration
that
Crosby,
a
Republican,
delayed
certification
past the
Nov. 28
deadline,
which
threatened
to place
more
than
47,000
votes on
the
chopping
block
from
last
November’s
election
canvas." |
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Jan. 1,
2023 |
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Hobbs Asks For Tom
Crosby And Peggy
Judd To Be
Prosecuted For
Delaying The
Election Canvass |
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"Supervisors Crosby
and
Judd’s actions
not only demonstrate
a complete disregard
for the law but also
jeopardize Arizona’s
democracy,” she
wrote. “Had a court
not intervened, the
failure of these two
Supervisors to
uphold their duty
would have
disenfranchised
thousands of Cochise
County voters. This
blatant act of
defying Arizona’s
election laws risks
establishing a
dangerous precedent
that we must
discourage.”
Crosby and Judd
threw the state
certification
process into
disarray last month
when they delayed
their official
canvassing of the
midterm election
results in Cochise
County, citing bogus
claims that
electronic
tabulators didn’t
meet state or
federal standards.
It was only after a
court ordered them
to complete their
statutorily mandated
duties that they did
so on Dec. 1, days
after the Nov. 28
deadline." |
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Dec. 2, 2022 |
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