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Arizona Results Like the 2020 Results are Uncertifiable – There Are Too Many Infractions to Certify These Results

There is nothing conspiratorial about calling for an investigation into AZ irregularities before certifying.

– 25% of voting machines failing on Election Day
– A week plus to count when FL with 3.5x the voters was called in minutes
– Midnight ballot drops

are irregularities

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) November 15, 2022

Standoff over election tally could affect certification in Arizona

By: 12News, November 15, 2022:

PHOENIX — The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own elections director to force her to conduct a greatly expanded hand count of ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election, a standoff that could affect certification of the results.

They want Cochise County Elections Director Lisa Marra to hand over the roughly 12,000 ballots cast on Election Day to the county recorder, an elected Republican. The county’s attorney warned the private lawyers representing the two GOP board members that taking ballots without authorization could subject their clients to felony charges.

At a raucous board meeting Tuesday, several members of the public berated the two Republicans on the three-member board for pursuing the hand count. One called a board member a “demagogue” who is “making a disgusting sham” of the democratic process.

The push to hand-count ballots in the Republican-heavy county, which borders Mexico in the state’s southeast corner and is home to the iconic Old West town of Tombstone, is prompted by unfounded claims of widespread fraud and voting machine conspiracy theories in the last presidential election pushed by former President Donald Trump and his allies. There has been no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines in 2020 or during this year’s midterm elections.

Nevertheless, the conspiracy theories have spread widely and have led to heated public meetings in mostly rural counties throughout the West amid calls to ditch voting machines in favor of paper ballots and full hand-counts. The controversies nearly delayed certification of primary results earlier this year in one New Mexico county and have fed an ongoing legal battle over a full hand count in a Nevada county.

Republicans in Arizona lost the major races in this year’s election, including for U.S. Senate, governor and secretary of state. Arizona’s evolution into a political battleground has angered many conservatives in a state that has traditionally been staunchly Republican. In Cochise County, the Republican candidates for those posts won by wide margins.

The Republicans’ lawsuit, filed late Monday, comes a week after a judge blocked the board from hand-counting all ballots cast during early voting but also gave them space to pursue a wider hand count. The judge said state law allows the county to expand the small hand count used for the official audit that is designed to confirm the accuracy of vote-counting machines, if it’s done randomly

After the ruling, Republican board member board Peggy Judd proposed an expansion of the hand count to as many as 99% of the Election Day ballots, although that proposal has now been slightly trimmed. The lawsuit filed by attorneys for Judd and the other GOP board member, Tom Crosby, said they hope to hand count four races on all ballots from 16 of the county’s 17 vote centers.

Their lawsuit against the county elections director says she refused their order to either do the expanded count herself or hand the ballots over to Republican county Recorder David Stevens so he can do the tally. It seeks an order compelling her to turn over the ballots.

Upping the stakes, the lawsuit contends the Republican board members have concluded that the expanded hand count is “necessary to ensure completeness and accuracy before certifying the election.” The county’s certified results must be received by the secretary of state no later than Nov. 28.

That means time is short to get a court ruling, pull about 12,000 Election Day ballots from the director’s possession and gather the more than 200 volunteers Stevens has said he has ready to do the hand count. Another 32,000 ballots were cast early.

If the county misses the certification deadline, the secretary of state’s office or a candidate could go to court and ask a judge to force the board to certify the results. The deadline is in state law, and election rules based on that law say county officials must certify and cannot change the results.

The lawsuit also says County Attorney Brian McIntyre “has made clear that he will prosecute any attempt by the Board and Recorder to exercise their lawful authority to take custody of the ballots to complete an expanded hand count themselves.”

 

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Don Davenport

1 year ago

Standoff between the peasants and the ones responsible for rigging the election. We all know who will win.

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Bikinis not Burkas

1 year ago

I live in Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA and we only have hand counting, not 1 corruptible machine in sight!

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j Paul

1 year ago

Reply to  Bikinis not Burkas

Does that mean you will be able to VOTE OUT the tyrants that made your lives hell during COVID?

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Owen Morgan

1 year ago

“12News” certainly doesn’t seem keen to get the Arizona vote checked, first claiming that everything is above board and then saying that, whattheheck, even if it isn’t, the Democrats merely have to run out the clock to the 28th of the month, anyway.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Do not think anything will be done to clean up the system for a recount.

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Glen

1 year ago

Notice every late ballot drop turns republican win into a loss.

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Grendel

1 year ago

Democrats Cheat Good!!!

Election Tampering is an attempt to OVERTHROW the LAWFUL government of the Republic.
As such, it is an Act of War against the Republic and, BY DEFINITION, TREASON.
The punishment for TREASON is DEATH and Justice MUST be served.

Until these people who commit these Acts of War are PROPERLY PUNISHED ….. this will continue.
Those committing Treason MUST DIE for their High Crimes

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Keith1941

1 year ago

“Making a disgusting sham of the democratic process”? I’d say the lady that “won” by not recusing herself is the one who made a sham of the process.

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corky

1 year ago

Why is a “disclaimer” always included : “There has been no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines in 2020 or during this year’s midterm elections.”?
When “we/I” still believe there has been/IS fraud involved?
Even here, on a conservative forum. No wonder “election deniers” are always criticized.
Does that help get you published or something?
IMHO it’s been/is as dirty as it gets. It’s treason and needs to be prosecuted. But they keep side-stepping somehow.

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JohnK

1 year ago

Reply to  corky

“They keep sidestepping (prosecution).” They OWN the people who would do the prosecuting. Unless an outside agency, such as the Military performs the prosecution, nothing will be done. The FBI and the DOJ have been infiltrated with deep state operatives. At this point it is like asking the Mafia to investigate the Mafia and then bring charges against and prosecute the mafia. They have been attacking Trump for over 6 years. The deep state criminals will never put other deep state criminals on trial. What has happened on the Federal level has also been done in the state and local governments. Despite testimony presented to the State Senate, the 2020 Audit, and the exposure of ballot harvesting by paid “Mules” using illegal drop boxes, our Attorney General Mark Brnovich did nothing and would not even initiate any investigation but wanted us to “promote” him to the office of US Senator. He didn’t do the job he has but he wanted us to move him to a higher position. This election was an instant replay of the cheating of 2020.

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TRM

1 year ago

Masters has conceded defeat. Kari Lake should too.

If the Democrats were going to rig an election they would have rigged for Lake to lose by a big margin, like Masters and Finchem lost. They would also have flipped a couple of House seats in S. Arizona that went Republican.

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