Arizona’s Republican attorney general says county officials can hand-count all ballots in at least five races from the Nov. 8 election.
An opinion issued Friday from Mark Brnovich's office gives a green light to GOP officials in at least two counties who have been clamoring for hand counts.
The efforts are driven by unfounded concerns among some Republicans that problems with vote-counting machines led to former President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat.
The new opinion led the two Republicans on the three-member Cochise County board of supervisors to boost their plan to hand-count both early and Election Day ballots.
They had pledged to pare back the effort on Wednesday after the secretary of state called it illegal.