Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs threatened the Mohave County Board of Supervisors with legal action and criminal referral unless they certified the 2022 vote in their county
- Two of the supervisors on the Mojave County board said they were voting to certify the election “under duress” after being warned that they would be arrested and charged with a felony if they didn’t
Lorick Threatened to Sue
- She invoked the threat of prosecution of the holdouts.
- "If Mohave County does not perform their ministerial duty to canvass your election results today, we will have no other choice but to pursue legal action and seek fees and sanctions against the Board."
"Our office will take all legal action necessary to ensure that Arizona's voters have their votes counted, including referring the individual supervisors who vote not to certify for criminal enforcement under A.R.S. 16-1010."
- Under the cited statute, an election official "who knowingly refuses to perform" their election duties "is guilty of a class 6 felony unless a different punishment for such act or omission is prescribed by law."
Arizona
- At least 72 vote centers in Maricopa County had issues on Election Day, from ballots rejected by tabulators to hours-long lines for voting, according to reporting by Republican election observers filed with the Arizona attorney general’s office.
- The attorney general's office raised concerns regarding the county's administration of the Nov. 8 election in a Nov. 19 letter to the Maricopedia County Attorney inquiring into the widespread irregularities reported in the county.
On Nov. 27, the county replied to the letter, saying that it followed the law on Election Day and the election problems were "regrettable."
- The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted to certify its election on Monday, after listening to a flood of voter complaints regarding issues they experienced trying to vote.
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