Will Arizona Officials Face Charges For Vote Certification Delay?
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, voting correspondent Hansi Lo Wang, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Katherine Swartz.
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Note: A previous version of the story's audio contained the wrong date for an Arizona election certification deadline. The deadline was November 28, not November 8.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Carrie and Oregon where I just finished one hour of Get Out the Vote Calling for the runoff election in Georgia. |
| 0:07.4 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:09.6 | 1.26pm Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, the 6th of December. |
| 0:15.0 | Things may have changed by the time you heard this, but campaigning for the 2022 midterm elections should be over. |
| 0:24.5 | Enjoy the show! |
| 0:25.6 | Woohoo! Let it end, let it end. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Hansi LaWong. I cover voting. |
| 0:37.8 | And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:40.9 | The last big, outstanding race of the midterms will be settled today with the runoff election in Georgia's U.S. Senate race. |
| 0:48.5 | And in many other places, last month's election results have been certified or in the process of being certified. |
| 0:55.2 | It's the sort of pro-form a step that most of us never thought about in any serious way until a couple of years ago. |
| 1:02.1 | But in one Arizona County this year, what happened is anything but routine. |
| 1:07.5 | Hansi, you've been following this. What happened in Cochise County? |
| 1:11.9 | And how is it supposed to work? What happened instead? |
| 1:16.6 | Well, more than 47,000 voters cast their ballots for this year's General Mitzhawar elections in this county in the South-eastern corner of Arizona, near Tucson, Cochise County. |
| 1:28.2 | And local election officials, they counted and reviewed these ballots. They found no legitimate problems. |
| 1:33.4 | So according to Arizona State Law, the Cochise County Board of Supervisors was supposed to meet and vote and certify these results, make them official. |
| 1:42.2 | And basically pass them along to the state's top election official, the Secretary of State for the statewide certification. |
| 1:48.4 | But two Republicans on this board delayed the local certification process and forced the county to miss this legal deadline. |
| 1:56.6 | They claimed they wanted to delay because of concerns about the county's voting equipment, but state officials confirmed this equipment was tested and properly certified. |
| 2:05.3 | And later, one of these Republicans, Peggy Judd, told the New York Times that those claims were basically a cover for the delay. |
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