Barabak: Trump’s Big Lie isn’t just national. Local candidates also fight for democracy

For several weeks, Joy Banks felt as though she — or at least her rights as a voter and citizen in good standing — were being held hostage.

Republican Kari Lake lost Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election fair and square. But the Board of Supervisors in rural Cochise County refused to certify the result, embracing an underhanded, undemocratic strategy — if you don’t like the outcome of an election, simply ignore it — that has become a central tenet of the MAGAfied Republican Party.

“They had my vote.