Part of the problem is reaching voters at all.

The next day, in Tombstone, a tourist town about a 30-minute drive from Sierra Vista down a two-lane highway, Robert Scott, manager of the Trump Store, said he hadn't heard about the meetings in the first place. Even if he had, he may not have gone. He's busy working two jobs — running the store and as a janitor elsewhere.

He is convinced that Trump's claims of vote switching are true and that Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs fixed the 2020 and 2022 elections in Arizona, he said, despite the court challenges presenting these claims being dismissed.

He lives in Tombstone, he said, but he doesn't pay much attention to local politics and didn't know Crosby and Judd had been indicted.

"That seems ridiculous," he said.

But his main local concern, he said, is "that road between St. David and Benson."

"This bridge out there is down to one lane," he said. "It's been that way for over a year. They haven't done any work on it for months."

When Walsh talks to voters, she said, they bring up water conservation, border security, and taxes. If they do mention elections, they ask how much the lawsuits related to the midterm election are costing county taxpayers. Judges ordered the county to pay $89,000 in attorney fees and legal costs to the parties that filed the lawsuit to stop the full hand-count, for example, and $36,000 for the case regarding the supervisors' refusal to certify the election.

The Democratic Party — which only makes up about 24% of the voting population here — is supporting candidates for all three county supervisor positions for the first time in more than a decade. They are hoping Walsh, a retired Army colonel, can oust Crosby in a district with 19% registered Democrats, and that they can hold onto the seat currently held by Democrat Ann English, who is not running for re-election in her district, which is about 34% Democratic. Judd is also not running again. They are also hopeful about the Democratic candidate challenging Stevens in the recorder race, Anne Carl.

Karp, who is managing Walsh's campaign, said that if Walsh and Carl won, it would do a lot to bring the community back together.

"It would stop this distrust, chaos, and lack of respect for people with a different viewpoint," he said.

Judd stepped down from serving as the supervisors' chairman this week, citing family health issues, and sided with English, the Democrat, to replace her. She said she doesn't trust Crosby to run the meetings because he goes on "rants" and has been disrespectful to county attorneys he disagreed with, such as on potential open meeting law violations.

"We need to make sure we move the county forward," she said. "Our poor attorney doesn't deserve to be publicly chastised just because she was doing her job."

Crosby didn't return requests for comment. His and Judd's trial is set for May, two months before ballots go out for the state's Aug. 6 primary election.

Meanwhile, Walsh isn't the only one who wants Crosby's spot. Clint Briseno, a Republican, is challenging him in the primary. Briseno said he had planned to run for supervisor even before the election issues began. But seeing everything unfold — especially the way Marra was treated — convinced him that the county "can do better."

As far as the voting machines, he said the technology is a blessing for the county. Hand-counting isn't accurate, he said.

Even if Cochise can convince residents to keep the machines, though, that's just the start

As one of the meetings wrapped up, a woman wearing a mint-colored suit began to yell from the back of the room. The real problem with the elections, she said, was the noncitizens on the voter rolls, and coming across the border, appearing to be alluding to Trump's latest claim that Democrats are allowing immigrants to cross the border so they can vote. That's where the fraud is at, she said.

"Arizona alone will bring them all down."

This story was produced by Votebeat and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media.