Anne E. Carl (Cochise County Recorder, Arizona, candidate 2024)
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Anne E. Carl (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Cochise County Recorder in Arizona. Carl was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Carl completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Anne E. Carl provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on July 25, 2024:
- Bachelor's: Union College in Schenectady, NY, 1988
- Graduate: University of Arizona, 1997
- J.D.: University of Arizona College of Law, 2003
- Profession: Property Manager
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Integrity matters. Government that works. (All business - no drama.)
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Elections
General election
General election for Cochise County Recorder
Anne E. Carl and David W. Stevens ran in the general election for Cochise County Recorder on November 5, 2024.
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Cochise County Recorder
Anne E. Carl ran in the Democratic primary for Cochise County Recorder on July 30, 2024.
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Cochise County Recorder
David W. Stevens ran in the Republican primary for Cochise County Recorder on July 30, 2024.
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Election results
Endorsements
Carl received the following endorsements.
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Anne E. Carl completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Carl's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I take following the law, unless it is unconstitutional, seriously. I also believe that it is important for our leaders to promote and exemplify traditional values like honesty, integrity, and respect for others. We have real needs, real problems, and must work together to solve them.
I have been a prosecutor, serving in the Cochise County Attorney’s Criminal Division. I also served in the Civil Division, where I represented County Departments, including the Recorder's office, keeping them – and us – out of trouble.
Once elected, I will reapply those skills to keep our Recorder’s office, its staff and those who depend on excellence and impartiality from that office, out of trouble. My other skills as an office and property manager, a teacher, a waitress and a nonprofit administrator, uniquely position me to serve as our County Recorder. I will protect eligible voter rights and ensure that our most important records are archived correctly. I aim for us to once again feel proud of, if not be able to take for granted, what our County Recorder does. This in turn will strengthen our community, our democracy and our republic.- Integrity matters. When elected, I will follow the law and run this office with greater honesty and transparency. In part, this means that those who make simple and straightforward public record requests will no longer have to wait over a year (or forever) to have their requests answered. Barring any complex requests made for the purpose of harassment, I will follow the Public Records law, which requires a "prompt" response.
- Accuracy and timeliness matter. I will work hard to avoid costly and unnecessary lawsuits by providing this community with the information it needs and rightfully expects from this office. When I am elected, I will also work to ensure that mailings from the Recorder no longer reference dates that are already past. Such poor planning wastes paper, postage and everyone's time spent receiving and reading. I will also avoid bringing incorrect paperwork to Board of Supervisors Meetings, which likewise wastes everyone's time.
- Fiscal responsibility matters. I will stretch every dollar to cover what matters most. For example, I will not misspend on any "solution in search of a problem." CNN reported on one example of our current Recorder's misspending, stating that he had purchased five tons of ballot paper in pursuit of a conspiracy theory. It was actually ten tons, and - as of this writing - that paper still sits in a warehouse, unneeded and unusable. The paper and a dandy roll together cost taxpayers almost $200K. Our County also shelled out money because of a toxic work environment, traced in part to the incumbent. We have high poverty areas in our County, so cannot afford such missteps and misspending.
- Integrity. This office requires complete fairness and impartiality. That means electing and staffing the office with those who will leave their own personal politics at the door.
- Competence. This office requires someone who knows what they are doing, as opposed to someone who merely acts the part. Archiving our most important documents (e.g., deeds, liens, loans...) and accurately managing, e.g., the voter rolls, helps to establish identity and ownership. This in turn plays a pivotal role in people's lives. Their hopes, dreams, jobs, family and financial wellbeing may depend on this being done correctly. Incorrect or untimely filing invites aggravation, fraud, voter disenfranchisement, waste and/or worse.
- Dedication. An elected official should genuinely care about their job and other people. They should regularly show up and serve others with accurate, helpful information. They should help staff members take pride in the work they do, and they should help staff members feel safe. No one working hard to safeguard functional local government, including free and fair elections, should feel like they have a target on their back.
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See also
2024 Elections
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