Peggy Judd Was The Chair Of The Cochise County Board Of Supervisors In 2024. [Cochise County, Board of Supervisors, accessed 1/23/24]

Peggy Judd Was Elected To The Cochise County Board Of Supervisors District 3 As A Republican In 2020. [Cochise County, 2020 Election Results, 11/17/20]

JUDD HAS BEEN INDICTED FOR HER ROLE IN DELAYING COCHISE COUNTY CERTIFICATION UNTIL A COURT ORDER

Peggy Judd Delayed Certifying The Results Of Cochise County’s 2022 Election Past The Legal Deadline Over Baseless Concerns About Voting Machines. “Judd and Crosby, the two Republicans on the three-person board, had delayed certification over what they said were concerns about whether vote-tallying machines had been properly certified. At the time, the secretary of state’s office countered that the machines had been tested and certified and argued that the recalcitrant board members were advancing debunked conspiracy theories. In early December 2022 – several days after Cochise County’s legal deadline to do so – Judd and the board’s sole Democrat voted to certify the general election results, following a court order.” [CNN, 11/29/23]

Peggy Judd Only Voted To Certify Cochise County’s 2022 Election Results After A Court Order. “In early December 2022 – several days after Cochise County’s legal deadline to do so – Judd and the board’s sole Democrat voted to certify the general election results, following a court order.” [CNN, 11/29/23]

Peggy Judd Was Indicted By An Arizona Grand Jury On Two Felony Charges – Interference With An Election Officer And Conspiracy – For Her Refusal To Certify The Cochise County 2022 General Election. “An Arizona grand jury indicted two local Republican officials who balked at certifying their county’s general election results by the legal deadline in 2022 – in a standoff with state officials that drew national attention at the time. Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd, 61, and Tom Crosby, 64, each were charged with two felonies: interference with an election officer and conspiracy, according to the indictment.” [CNN, 11/29/23]

JUDD TRAVELED TO DC FOR THE STOP THE STEAL RALLY; CLAIMED SUBSEQUENT VIOLENCE WAS A FALSE FLAG

Peggy Judd Traveled To DC To Participate In The Stop The Steal Rally. “A Cochise County supervisor deleted her Facebook profile and is facing calls to resign after she touted conspiracy myths associated with the QAnon movement and posted about her participation in the January 6 march on the U.S. Capitol that became a deadly insurrection. Supervisor Peggy Judd says she is fearful of being ‘punished’ and ‘defiled’ by the press and critical voices within her own community. Speaking with TucsonSentinel.com, the Republican supervisor said she has recently endured unfriendly remarks and calls for her resignation from ‘bad people’ — and she fears that ‘more than her freedom’ is being endangered by the attention and criticism she has received since the incident at the Capitol. The critical voices in Judd's ear are those of some Cochise County citizens who have been troubled and outraged by Judd's participation in the January 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally, which featured President Donald Trump and turned into a violent mob attacking the U.S. Capitol. Judd also raised alarm among some in the Cochise community with her consistent promotion of unfounded conspiracist statements about the November election and the attack on the Capitol. An investigation by the Sentinel found that Judd and a member of her family apparently exchanged QAnon material around the time of their involvement in the events in Washington. Judd has claimed that the takeover of the Capitol right after a speech by Trump just down the National Mall was possibly a planned ‘false flag’ operation in which ‘Antifa’ activists and corrupt Capitol Police officers duped innocent Trump supporters into appearing in videos of the violent clashes on the steps and inside the Capitol building.” [Tucson Sentinel, 1/25/21]

Following The Insurrection, Peggy Judd Said It Appeared To Be A False Flag Operation That Was “Staged” To “Make Trump Look Bad.” “The 58-year-old county supervisor is a niece (by marriage) of former Cochise County Sheriff Jimmy Judd and a distant relative of National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd (the Border Patrol agents' union that has been tightly allied with former President Trump). Given that family law enforcement background, it seems especially noteworthy that a recurrent theme in Judd's telling of the events of January 6 has corrupt U.S. Capitol Police officers letting rioters — who, according to Judd, were likely anti-fascist left-wing ‘Antifa’ activists disguised as Trump followers — into the Capitol building. Further, when asked by the Sentinel what she has made of the numerous Trump supporters who have subsequently been arrested by the FBI for their roles in the insurrection, Judd stated that it ‘appears’ (she is still waiting for ‘evidence’ before she makes a final determination) likely that law enforcement personnel deliberately entrapped unwitting and well-behaved Trump supporters. These Trump supporters, said Judd, were ‘shuffled in’ to the building by police for use in ‘carefully staged videos.’ The goal, Judd told the Sentinel, was to ‘make Trump look bad.’ ‘I think that there was a plan to storm the Capitol — that started, maybe weeks prior to that event. I mean, that event was planned for a long time. I think that there are what are called 'false flag' things that have happened for 200 years in our county,’ Judd told the Sentinel. ‘People do like to politically use a situation against the other party. I think this could have been one, or maybe it wasn't. I don't know.’ Though she now hedges in her commitment to these claims of conspiratorial goings-on, according to records of email communications obtained by the Sentinel, Judd was giving voice to such alternate versions of reality on the day of the insurrection. According to records obtained from Cochise County, on the afternoon of January 6, Sierra Vista Herald reporter Shar Porier wrote Judd and asked if she and her family were OK. The Cochise supervisor responded to the reporter by saying: ‘The grandchildren think they were making history! And they are sick that our beautiful day got hijacked. I have to admit, I am sad too! There is much more to this event than people are being told and it is sad! Then there are the photoshopped stories and outright lies and people ignoring the 99% who sacrificed to be there and enjoy our day of peaceful protest.’ When asked what evidence she has for these claims, Judd referenced various images and amateur videos posted to right-wing social media, and stated that, prior to the march, she had been advised by the organizers of the pro-Trump ‘caravan’ that Antifa were planning to infiltrate the event. Judd stated that she does not often read or watch traditional news media sources.” [Tucson Sentinel, 1/25/21]

Peggy Judd Had Repeatedly Promoted False Claims About The 2020 Election Being Stolen And Urged God To Guide Pence To Unilaterally Overturn The Results Of The Election. “‘I didn't think there was anything weird about marching on the Capitol,’ said Judd, who had been publicly promoting false claims relating to the integrity of the presidential election for months prior to the January 6 event. ‘In fact, while I was walking there, about to die because I'm old and not in such good shape, I was actually thinking, 'this is kind of like, you know, like marching for our rights and our freedom' — I kind of almost felt like it was equal to the Martin Luther King march.’ [...] It is not known what exactly Judd anticipated these next levels of action on Trump's part would be, though it is clear that the county supervisor had hoped the election results would be overturned on January 6. In the days preceding the Capitol insurrection, Judd reposted material to her personal, public Facebook page urging God to guide then-Vice President Mike Pence in unilaterally rejecting the results of the presidential election during the joint session of the U.S. Congress to be held on January 6.” [Tucson Sentinel, 1/25/21]

JUDD WAS ACCUSED OF BREAKING OPEN MEETING LAW WHILE PRESSURING THE COUNTY’S ELECTION DIRECTOR FOR A HAND COUNT

Tom Crosby And Peggy Judd Were Accused Of Holding A Private Meeting With The Then-County Election Director To Push For A 100% Hand Count Audit. “The first instance alleges that in November 2022, Supervisors Crosby and Peggy Judd met in a private, a meeting that was not publicly noticed, to file a lawsuit against then County Elections Director Lisa Marra in an effort to get her to conduct a 100% hand count audit of the 2022 General Election. The letter says that the complaint also alleges that the two supervisors met yet again without public notice a few days later to withdraw the lawsuit. Marra later resigned from her position in January, with her resignation finalized in February. The county was given 15 days to address Marra's grievances of a hostile work environment. Marra now is the Deputy State Elections Director for the Arizona Secretary of State's office.” [AZPM, 8/2/23]

JUDD HAS SAID SHE BELIEVED THE 2022 ELECTION WAS FAIR AND SHE SUPPORTED A HAND COUNT FOR HER CONSTITUENTS

Peggy Judd Has Since Said The Only Reason She Voted For A Hand Count Was Because Her Constituents Wanted It And That She Did Not Personally Think There Was A Problem With The Machines. “Judd also said that her role in the 2022 midterm election drama has been mischaracterized. She says she didn’t personally think there was a problem with the machines that counted the county’s ballots, and the only reason she voted to expand the county’s hand-count audit was that it was what her constituents wanted. ‘I never pushed for it,’ she said. ‘You can ask anyone. I never pushed for it.’” [Votebeat, 4/15/24]

Peggy Judd Said The Hand Count Was Meant To Provide “Proof Of Good, Positive, Look Our Election System Is Great [...] You Don’t Have To Be Worried About Cochise County.” “Judd said in 2022 that her vote with the supervisors to hand count all ballots after the machine count was meant to give everyone confidence and faith in the county’s elections. The hand count, she said, would provide ‘proof of good, positive, look our election system is great.’ ‘It was just to show them we have good machines. We have a good elections director. We have a good system here. You don’t have to be worried about Cochise County.’” [Votebeat, 4/15/24]