Arizona county approves hand count of all ballots: Dems freak out

In Cochise County, Arizona a panel of county supervisors voted along party lines to order a manual hand count of all ballots after the voting is concluded. It isn't hard to guess which party voted for a hand count and which voted against it, but I'm going to tell you anyway. The 2 Republicans voted for the hand count because it's accurate, albeit slow, and the lone Democrat voted against it because it's accurate.

While there was two different versions of the plan, the measure passed. Concerns over the potential liability of the supervisors in probable lawsuits challenging the recount process were raised, but the one thing missing from the objections was why would anyone be against having a verifiable second count of ballots to ensure accuracy and reliability of the voting machines, unless they didn't want the voting machines results challenged.

The meeting was chaotic but the plan got passed as Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd and Thomas Crosby voted for the it. Ann English, a Democrat, voted against both proposals, but the measure got passed in spite of that.

“I implore you not to attempt to order this separate hand-count,” said County Attorney Brian McIntyre, a Republican. He said such action would be unlawful and supervisors could be held personally liable in a civil action.

These types of questions are coming up all around the country. Worry over the accuracy of the count in the 2020 election and doubts about the integrity of some of the voting machine systems that are commonly utilized seem to be driving a push toward older, low-tech methods of tallying the ballots of voters because they are harder to beat.

And wherever voting machines are used – particularly touchscreen machines that may or may not produce a paper record – better and more reliable methods of conducting recounts are being sought.

So Cochise County may be a sign of a larger trend as 2024 looms near. People are distrustful of voting machines.

 Assuming the human election monitors who check and count the ballots are doing so accurately with representatives from both parties supervising the work, what basis would anyone have for suing the county supervisors? And even more to the point, who would object to a hand count in the first place? Wouldn’t that be the only and most obvious way to ensure the accuracy of the totals?

Well perhaps that is exactly the problem the Democrats have with this plan.

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Cochise was a cool dude who used to rub Biden's hair by the side of the pool and watch the hairs on his legs go up.

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