Twitter post of WaPo reporter Yvonne Wingett Sanchez

Should taxpayers in Cochise County care about legal bills in Maricopa County?  Yes.  Local taxpayers are already in for about $175,000 in legal bills related to various lawsuits because of actions taken by the 2 Republicans on the board of supervisors, Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd.

While grievances by loser gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake fuels the battle in Phoenix, there is no such grievance in Cochise County which overwhelming voted for Republican candidates up and down the ballot.  (One exception the election of Democrat Clea McCaa mayor of Sierra Vista.)  Instead the challenge to election procedure at the county level seems to be a new feature of Republican party mantra.

Unfortunately, this costs local governments who often have to hire outside lawyers to defend against what various Superior court and Arizona Supreme court judges have said for "frivolous" or worse.

The November 2024 general election is along way off.  Voters need to remember how, why and who is responsible for wasting taxpayer dollars on this nonsense.

Note:  Mr. Conroy was a candidate for Sierra Vista mayor in the 2022 general election.  The post shown here is a screen grab of a Facebook post that is not his original post.  Mr. Conroy mixes some incorrect facts with some popular misinformation to come to the conclusion that "Arizona has an opportunity to lead the way to better election process..."  Not a bad idea, we can always improve.  Let's just be honest about what needs to be changed.

Let's take a look at his factual errors first.

"We should return to hand-counting Ballots.  FL did not have a problem getting their votes counted within a day or so."
Fact check: Florida does use paper ballots that are hand marked.  Then they are scanned and tabulated by machines.  This is not hand-counting of ballots.

He [Tom Crosby] followed all the statutes and eventually was forced by Maricopa County  to sign off on the results.
Fact check: Crosby did not follow Arizona state election law, refusing to certify the canvas as well as attempting to demand a 100% hand count which is not allowed by law.  Maricopa County had nothing to do with forcing Crosby to do anything.  It was the Pima County Superior Court that issued a ruling from a suit brought by the Arizona Secretary of State. Because of Crosby and Supervisor Peggy Judd, Cochise County missed the legally mandated date to certify  the vote. Crosby never did "sign off" on the results even after being instructed to do so by the court.  Judd and Supervisor Ann English did, making the majority needed to certify the vote. Crosby didn't show up for the vote!

Other interesting statements made as fact:  "Computer programs can easily [bold added for emphasis] be tailored to change vote counts."  What proof does he have for this broad statement.  Has he worked in election software?  I have not, but I'm guessing that vote tabulation software is closely monitored for unauthorized changes.  In fact, Maricopa county had to get rid of all its vote tabulation machines when they were turned over to an unauthorized vendor, Cyber Ninjas, because it could not be determined if they were tampered.

"If you want to rig an election, do NOT require voter registration..." Cochise County and all of Arizona requires voter registration to be eligible to vote.

Mr. Conroy gives the reader a choice of agreeing with him "...or we can sit back and let socialism reign in America."  Somehow socialism is the result of not allowing hand counting of ballots.  Then he pivots to reminding all of us about inflation which is certainly a big economic issue.  Not sure how that is relevant to the main issue.  He seems to want to compare prices to "what we spent three months ago".  A better comparison would have been a year ago.