Arizona voters were told the election went fine. Records show a county director knew of glaring errors.
By the time Virginia Ross appeared before Pinal County’s supervisors one last time, she had already sold her house.
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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.