A majority on the all-Republicans board of supervisors in rural Pinal County, Arizona at a public meeting on Wednesday rejected a proposal for a full or expanded hand count of ballots cast in the upcoming midterms, saying they saw no reason to do more than the planned handful of precincts selected for a hand-count audit of machine tallies, the Associated Press reports.
Several locals were furious. “Over 200 years, we have had a hand-count in this nation of the people, for the people and by the people,” said MAGA did his own research guy Daniel Woods at the meeting. “All of a sudden we use machines and it’s no longer legal. That’s horse crap.”
The rejection in Pinal leaves similarly rural Cochise County as the only jurisdiction in Arizona pursuing a full hand count of ballots. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich last week allowed Cochise to move forward with the count as long as it accompanied a machine tally as well.