Cochise County asks feds to investigate disputed claims about voting machine testing -- again
Four years after a conservative southeastern Arizona county tried to defy election laws, it may be gearing up to do so again.
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors voted on Feb. 24 to send a letter to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard asking her to investigate whether the laboratories charged with testing voting machines nationwide were properly accredited ahead of recent elections.
Cochise County officials have doubted the laboratories for years, despite the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s reassurances that they were properly accredited. Those doubts were part of what prompted two of the county’s supervisors to vote to delay the certification of its election results past the legal deadline in November 2022.
A judge ultimately ordered the supervisors to certify the midterm election results, but their doubts about the laboratories — and the voting machines they test — have apparently persisted. The board sent an identical message to the U.S. Department of Justice less than six months ago.
https://www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026/03/03/cochise-county-supervisors-ask-tulsi-gabbard-investigate-voting-machines-2022/