10/26/2022
WAKE UP COCHISE COUNTY‼️
“Monday’s vote by county supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby to mandate a hand-counting of all ballots cast in this year’s general election is the latest salvo in the fight to damage, undermine, and ultimately discredit our electoral process.
This move is a direct attack against Cochise County voters, election workers and everyone else who believes in a fair and functional vote.
Numerous studies have shown that hand counting of ballots is more susceptible than machine counts to error, with human fatigue, biases and other factors all playing a role in the higher rate of mistakes that come along with a manual tally.
A full ballot hand count also opens up the potential for voters’ personal information to be mishandled.
The practicality of actually counting the tens of thousands of votes in a timely fashion is also brought into question, along with the cost and required manpower to do so. Around 65,000 ballots were cast in the 2020 election.
Hand counting that many ballots would cause a delay in results on Election Day not only for local races, but also statewide and federal races, again casting doubt on the process.
However, it is clear that supervisors Judd and Crosby care little for facts, the law or the integrity of our election process.
Instead, the pair have chosen to follow the playbook laid out at the national and state levels to cause confusion, distrust and chaos in our democratic processes as revenge for the 45th president’s failed reelection bid.
And that’s the whole point: question and criticize everything until the voters believe nothing.
We call upon the voters of Cochise County to see this ploy for what it really is: another attempt to disenfranchise you and devalue your vote and the entire election process. We cannot allow our democratic process to be hijacked any further.
We encourage everyone who is concerned about these attacks on democracy to contact supervisors Crosby and Judd at 520-432-9200 or by email, [email protected] and [email protected], and tell them to reconsider their illegal, dangerous plan to hand count ballots in Cochise County.”
-Herald/Review Media
We are concerned about what is happening in our county. ‼️
