Arizona official who delayed 2022 election certification pleads guilty

Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) — One of two rural Arizona county supervisors who faced criminal charges for refusing to certify the 2022 midterm results by a state deadline has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of failing to perform her duty as an election officer. Cochise County Supervisor Peggy Judd entered the plea Monday under an agreement reached in Maricopa County Superior Court. Judd and fellow Republican board member Tom Crosby had sought a hand count of all the county’s ballots amid rampant conspiracy theories about the integrity of the vote and chaotic public hearings. Crosby still faces trial in the case in January and is running for reelection