I'm sure there's a plan, but I'm worried about countering the cadre of election deniers now sitting as . . . .

[dobleremolque]

4. I'd like to think that the situation of Cochise County Arizona's two supervisors who F.A.'d with

refusal to certify the 2022 election results, and the current F.O. in which they find themselves facing felony criminal charges of election interference, will serve as some kind of deterrent. Their trials start in Phoenix on Aug. 15. It took a state grand jury to indict them. Their county attorney warned them not to do it, said the county would not pay for their defense costs if they did it, so all the necessary lawyering is being paid for out of their own pockets. And it is expensive.

During all the fucking around in Cochise County, there was some speculation about going ahead and certifying the state results without Cochise County, and not counting those votes. I don't remember whether that gained any traction. But I doubt it would have flown legally.

There need to be some statutes amended to clearly and unambiguously state that in Arizona, election certification is a "ministerial" duty and that the supervisors are not endowed with any investigative role, power, or authority over perceived, imagined, or even actual irregularities. But those are fixes that are still to come once saner heads control the Arizona legislature.

Other than that, like you, I'm sure something is in place. But I don't know what it could be. We aren't quite to the world depicted in the movie Minority Report, where people are arrested for crimes they were predicted to commit. And I don't think we really want to go there.