Arizona county certifies election after judge’s orderPHOENIX (AP) — A rural Arizona county certified its midterm election results on Thursday, following the orders of a judge who ruled that Republican supervisors broke the law when they refused to sign off on the vote count by this week’s deadline.Secretary of State Katie Hobbsfiled suit Monday, as did a local voter and a group of retirees, asking a judge to force the supervisors to certify the election, a process formally known as a canvass.“I am not ashamed of anything I did,” said Supervisor Peggy Judd, one of the two Republicans who twice blocked certification.“And today I feel I must, because of a court ruling and because of my own health and situations that are going on in our life, I feel like I must follow what the judge did today.”Population increase for endangered red squirrels in ArizonaNOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this weekCoyotes bring 3-game losing streak into matchup with the CanucksKopitar scores twice, Kings rally for 5-3 win over CoyotesThe board’s other Republican, Tom Crosby, skipped the meeting.Meanwhile, a federal judge in Phoenix sanctioned lawyers who represented Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, the defeated Republican candidates for governor and secretary of state, respectively, in a lawsuit seeking to require hand counting of all ballots."