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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, he is
running for
re-election
to the Board
for District
1 in the
2024 Primary
election. |
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Documents Detail Republican Push To Force
Hand Counts In Arizona Election |
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Records show Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, two of three board supervisors, advocated for hand-counting ballots. Composite: The Guardian/Javier Palma/ Cassidy Araiza |
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"Republican elected officials in a small Arizona county talked with state lawmakers and activists about hand-counting ballots there in 2022 and urged their counterparts in other counties to push for hand counts as well, newly released public records show. |
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The records from Cochise county, a Republican stronghold along the US-Mexico border, only came to light after a lawsuit from a watchdog group, American Oversight, and took well over a year to be released. The original records request from American Oversight was filed in November 2022." |
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"“They will not stop,” Chioma Chukwu, interim executive director of American Oversight, told the Guardian. “They’re going to continue until they get what they want, which is pushing for hand counts, delaying the certification of election results if the election does not go their way in November.”" |
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Jun. 15, 2024 |
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Arizona GOP County Officials Face Charges
After Refusing To Certify Election On Time |
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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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