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Cochise County pauses election canvass; staff warns jail district must certify before supervisors
Summary
Elections staff told the Cochise County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 12 that statute requires the jail district board of directors — not the Board of Supervisors — to perform the initial canvass of a jail-district election; the canvass was rescheduled for the next day at 2 p.m., followed by a supervisors meeting to accept certification.
Cochise County elections staff halted action on a scheduled canvass at a Nov. 12 special meeting after identifying a statutory requirement that the jail district board of directors, not the Board of Supervisors, perform the initial canvass.
"Prior to coming in today, we discovered, we were taking a review of statute, and statute 16 dash 6 4 2 states that the governing body holding an election shall meet and canvass the election as follows," Sharon Gohman,…
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