Judge Orders Arizona’s Cochise County to Certify Election Results

An election worker gathers tabulated ballots to be boxed in a file photo. Matt York/AP Photo

An Arizona county’s board of supervisors certified their jurisdiction’s midterm elections results on Thursday at the order of a judge three days after they missed the statutory deadline of Nov. 28.

Judge Casey McGinley of the Pima County Superior Court instructed Cochise County’s board of supervisors to convene and declare the results official by 5 p.m. MT on Thursday.