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Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby, who sought to eliminate the use of voting machine tabulators in the 2022 election, delay certification, and conduct a hand count of ballots, received a grand jury summons from Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes earlier this month. The summons does not indicate what he is being investigated for, but he has tangled with Democratic officials over his concerns about election fraud.

AN analysis of uncounted provisional ballots shows the 2022 Arizona attorney general's race may be called for GOP nominee Abe Hamadeh instead of the now-Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes. Hamadeh is challenging the election in court, suing Mayes to ensure all votes were counted in their midterm election contest, which Hamadeh lost by just 280 votes, according to an automatic statewide recount. Last week, Mohave County Superior Court scheduled oral arguments on May 16 for Hamadeh's motion for a new trial, which he filed after learning that vote total discrepancies in Pinal County were allegedly not brought to the attention...

Arizona Republicans are nominating an entire cast of characters who argue not only that Donald Trump won the election in 2020, but also that the state’s results should be decertified—a process for which there is no legal basis. These Trump-endorsed candidates—Kari Lake for governor, Mark Finchem for secretary of state, Abraham Hamadeh for attorney general, Blake Masters for senator—all won their respective primaries this week and are now one election away from political power. “Stop the Steal” candidates are running—and winning—all over the country. But Arizona concentrates a lot of them within a single geographic area—like an ant farm of...

Abe Hamadeh, whom former President Donald Trump endorsed, has won Arizona’s Republican attorney general primary, according to an Associated Press projection.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/6ThzetHWuv— Abe Hamadeh for Arizona AG (@AbrahamHamadeh) August 3, 2022Hamadeh, a political newcomer, is a veteran and former prosecutor in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Hamadeh’s race was called the morning after election day. With 97 percent of precincts reported, the former prosecutor earned 32 percent of the vote, which was eight points higher than his closest challenger.Hamadeh defeated Republican candidates Rodney Glassman, Andrew Gould, Dawn Grove, Lacey Cooper, and Tiffany Shedd.In his endorsement, Trump noted that Hamadeh “knows...