An insane in-depth report by VoteBeat.us details how Republican now-former Pinal County, Arizona elections director Virginia Ross falsely asserted to the county Board of Supervisors that the vote count in the November 2022 midterms was correct, collected a $25,000 bonus for the “correct” total, then sold her house and fucked off to a small town in East Texas before anyone knew she had lied about it, with the discrepancies in the tabulation found after a recount nearly enough to overturn the result of the state Attorney General race, which Democrat Kris Mayes beat crazy MAGA asshole Abe Hamadeh by an ultra-tight 320 votes out of 2,512,390 ballots cast.
Even better was how Ross had stepped in to take over for previous elections director David Frisk, an alt-right 2020 conspiracy freak after the board fired him in August 2022 over a complete shitshow of a primary in the county. Ross, in her former elected post as county recorder had overseen elections until that job function was separated from the recorder’s office in 2017, making her an apparently natural fit. That is until she knowingly lied about discrepancies in tabulations totaling hundreds of ballots and was already on her way out of town when the subterfuge was revealed. Give VoteBeat’s reporting on Virginia Ross a read, it’s a hell of a story that would take us a while to do it justice.