Cochise County

A rural Arizona county where leaders have embraced voting machine conspiracies on Tuesday hired an elections director who has promoted the false claims that voter fraud cost former President Donald Trump reelection in 2020

Arizona's attorney general is suing a rural, Republican-controlled county to stop it from transferring all election duties from a nonpartisan office to the elected county recorder.

Election losses by Republican candidates last year who denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential results have only added fuel to voting conspiracies in rural Arizona.

Cochise County certified its midterm election results on Thursday, following the orders of a judge who ruled that Republican supervisors broke the law when they refused to sign off on the vote count by this week’s deadline.

Republican officials in Cochise County refused Monday to certify the 2022 election ahead of the deadline amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject a vote count that had Democrats winning for U.S. Senate, governor and other statewide races.

An Arizona county’s plan to hand count all ballots cast in next week’s election has prompted a court challenge.

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says county officials can hand-count all ballots in at least five races from the Nov. 8 election.

The Cochise County board of supervisors was poised to move ahead Tuesday when the county attorney told the board they had no legal authority to do so.

Federal health officials say a team of 15 medical providers and support staff from the National Disaster Medical System will temporarily help Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista battle a COVID-19 surge.

Cochise County officials don’t have to consider possible emergency responses or road closures when thousands of migratory birds drop in on the Willcox…