Republican voters on Tuesday ousted a top elections official in Arizona’s most populous county who angered conservatives by defending the state’s voting system against false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, according to The Associated Press.The results as of early Wednesday showed that the official, Stephen Richer, had lost his primary re-election bid for Maricopa County recorder to State Representative Justin Heap, a right-wing challenger buoyed by conservative voters’ distrust in elections and mail-in voting.The campaign was a high-stakes contest between the Trump wing of Arizona’s Republican Party and establishment Republicans, with the potential to affect voting procedures in a county that encompasses Phoenix and its suburbs, and that often decides the state’s political direction.As county recorder, Mr. Richer oversaw voter registration and mail-in voting, a once-obscure elections post that is now a battlefield for fal …
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