BISBEE — The elections director of a rural Arizona county who pushed false claims that voter fraud was behind President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss is resigning five months after being hired.
Bob Bartelsmeyer submitted his resignation last Friday and announced he would return to his previous job as elections director in La Paz County, more than 300 miles west near the California state line, KVOA-TV in Tucson reported Tuesday.
A public information officer for Cochise County did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
According to his resignation letter, Bartelsmeyer's last day will be Sept. 29.
Bartelsmeyer was picked as elections director in April by the two Republicans on the three-member Cochise County Board of Supervisors.
Bartelsmeyer publicly shared memes on his personal Facebook page supporting Trump's allegations of fraud and promoting the lie that Dominion voting machines manipulated the outcome.
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He served for a year as the elections director and deputy clerk in La Paz County. Before that, Bartelsmeyer had an unexplained 12-year gap on his resume. Before that, his resume shows he bounced between election jobs in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida, and was the elected clerk in Lawrence County, Missouri, for 23...
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