Concerned Republican precinct committeemen and citizens in Navajo County, a small Republican-leaning county located in the northeastern part of the state, asked the Navajo County Board of Supervisors (NCBOS) recently to take election integrity measures, but are being stonewalled.
Celia Laughlin (pictured above) told The Arizona Sun Times that in place of addressing their questions and requests at the last board meeting on April 23, Navajo County Manager Bryan Layton “gave a poll worker’s civics class instruction instead.” Layton was appointed county manager less than a year ago, and prior to that he worked in Texas for 10 years.
Laughlin said she and other precinct committeemen first brought up their concerns at the March 12 board meeting. Laughlin asked for several items to be included at the next April meeting. She asked for consideration of an election integrity task force, ending the use of voting machine tabulators and replacing them with hand counts, and preserving the ballots from the 2022 election until investigators could inspect them.
She elaborated, “We have received absolutely no signals from you, that you have any intentions of answering to us or receiving suggestions and excellent advice from the citizens that are actual solutions that would solve the issues that lead to the corruption discovered by evidence that has been produced, within even the last few months and years.”
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