Officials in an Arizona county have been sued over their plan to hand count ballots cast in the upcoming midterm election.
The Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans said that Cochise County officials are poised to violate the law with the hand count and asked a state judge to block the plan.
A.R.S. §§ 16-602(F), the plaintiffs said, outlines that hand counts may only be conducted with specific parameters, including counting a sample of no more than 5,000 ballots.
“Arizona law thus clearly and expressly prohibits county officials from conducting a hand count audit of ballots beyond the limited sample size allowed by statute, let alone all early ballots cast in the election,” they said….