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Maricopa county supervisor who faced threats for doing his job to confirm votes in 2020 won’t run for re-election
A Republican elected official in Arizona who protected the vote and withstood a barrage of pressure and threats in 2020 from within his own party to sway the election toward Trump announced Thursday that he won’t run for re-election.
Clint Hickman, a supervisor in Maricopa county, the state’s largest county that includes Phoenix, faced death threats for doing his job to confirm the county’s vote totals in 2020, when the state narrowly chose Joe Biden. State Republicans then initiated a sham “audit” of the county’s results, a costly hand count that took months only to arrive at Biden’s win as well.
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