How GOP lawmakers lobbied Arizona county leaders to switch to hand-counting ballots

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Source: [link:https://www.votebeat.org/arizona/]
By: Jen Fifield/Votebeat - July 16, 2024

Republican lawmakers in Arizona privately pressured county leaders across the state to count ballots by hand instead of using machines, according to previously unreported text messages.

The messages, obtained by Votebeat through public record requests, are a window into how state lawmakers are trying to leverage relationships with Republican county supervisors — who decide how to count ballots in their counties — to promote a practice that state officials have repeatedly said would be illegal.

And it highlights how lawmakers have turned to counties to try to change how ballots are counted, after failing to change state laws.

In Mohave County, for example, messages show that Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter requested a vote on hand-counting ballots during the upcoming presidential election after state Sen. Sonny Borrelli, a fellow Republican who lives in the county, connected him with a lawyer who promised to represent the board free if necessary.

Excellent deep dive into ongoing GOP efforts to monkeywrench Arizona elections.... full article:
https://www.votebeat.org/arizona/2024/07/16/text-messages-lawmakers-pressured-counties-hand-count-ballots-cochise-mohave/

[yellowdogintexas]

1. We have a County Judge here in Tarrant Co TX who wants to go back to hand counting and

the old style fill in the bubble ballots. With over a million registered voters, that could be dicey. We keep wondering how they plan to pay the hand counters to stay all night to count the votes.