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Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd are accused of interfering with the 2022 election after voting to delay election certification last year.

Taxpayers won't be covering the bill to defend two Cochise County supervisors charged last week with interfering in the 2022 election.

Supervisors determined that political parties will not be involved in hiring a new elections director. However, the board will ratify a final hire.

Roll, who resigned after criticism from the county GOP, was the fourth elections director in the Arizona county in less than four years.

After human error in Pinal County’s midterm election caused officials to initially fail to count hundreds of ballots, the county’s supervisors now want to try counting ballots by hand

By the time Virginia Ross appeared before Pinal County’s supervisors one last time, she had already sold her house.

By the time Virginia Ross appeared before Pinal County’s supervisors one last time, she had already sold her house.

The supervisors made it easy for her: They didn’t ask her any questions, voting unanimously to certify the results. She got her bonus, and quickly moved to an East Texas town with fewer than 1,000 residents. It would be another month before Arizona voters learned what internal evidence already showed — that Ross had botched the count in a way that excluded hundreds of votes from the original results, enough to nearly overturn the outcome of a statewide race.

Pinal Countys board is made up of five elected supervisors. They control a $1.1 billion budget in one of the fastest-growing counties in Arizona.

An investigation found that Pinal Co. Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh had no evidence to support his claims of employee quid pro quo in the County Attorneys Office.