Katie Hobbs’ Office Threatened County Board With Arrest, Indictment If They Didn’t Certify Results

Hobbs overseeing her own election – no conflict of interest there.

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EXCLUSIVE: Katie Hobbs’ Office Threatened County Board With Arrest, Indictment If They Didn’t Certify Results

By: Arjun Singh, Daily News, December 01, 2022:

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Katie Hobbs’ office threatened Mohave County Supervisors with arrest and prosecution if they failed to certify the results of their elections before the state deadline.

Kori Lorick, the State Elections Director and Hobbs’ top deputy, sent multiple emails to the Board warning them of consequences, including the “disenfranchisement of voters.”
Mohave was one of several GOP-led counties in Arizona that asked for more time before certifying results to examine election integrity issues.

Democratic Arizona Secretary of State and Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs’ top deputy threatened the Mohave County Board of Supervisors with prosecution if it didn’t certify her election results before a Monday deadline, according to emails and documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Arizona State Elections Director Kori Lorick wrote several letters and emails to members of the board, warning them of criminal charges if the refused to certify the results in time. The letters included threats of lawsuits against the members for “nonfeasance,” as well, per the emails.

“The Secretary of State did contact our County and cited A.R.S. Section 16-1010 as a statute that could be used to prosecute [the board] if they did not certify the election,” said Matt Smith, the Mohave County Attorney, to the DCNF. The statute is an Arizona felony statute regarding election officials who “fail to perform their duties” under the law; as a Class 6 felony, upon conviction, it could result in up to two years’ imprisonment. (RELATED: Arizona County Refuses To Certify Election Results, Threatening A GOP House Win)

“The threat of legal action, including personally, came from the Arizona State Elections Director [Kori Lorick],” said the board’s chair-elect, Supervisor Travis Linginfelter. While previous reporting noted that the board’s members were warned of prosecution by their counsel, the board’s members have now stated that the threats came from Lorick, who reports to Hobbs, as well.

“Our office will take all legal action necessary to ensure that Arizona’s voters have their votes counted, including referring the individual supervisors who vote not to certify for criminal enforcement under A.R.S. 16-1010,” Lorick wrote in an email to the board obtained by the DCNF. Governor-elect Hobbs has neither resigned as Secretary of State nor recused herself from election oversight and certification.

Hobbs was elected governor of Arizona on Nov. 8 to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, defeating the Republican candidate Kari Lake, who has now sought to contest the election results. Republicans also lost Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, where Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly defeated Republican investor Blake Masters to win a full six-year term.

Lorick’s threat of prosecution was one of several efforts made by Hobbs’ team to force Mohave County to certify its election results before the Nov. 28 state deadline. Republican members of the board, like in other counties in the state, had sought to hold public hearings regarding the validity of voting machines used in their precincts, over concerns that they were not properly approved by the Secretary of State’s office.

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Armaros

1 year ago

Everybody knows where i stand on Russia and Putin
The Democrats have become Russia under Putin.

This is like if the referee of the other team happens to also be their captain.
And also the NHL/ NFL Commissioner
This is how they roll in Belarus.
The sad thing is that in AZ the McCain cult is part of this .
Fat little Meghan was knee deep in all the campaigns against both the governor and senate candidates. She probably ate thousands of ballots herself

Note that in GGa the Republican LT Governor went on CNN to campaign against Walker.

The patriots have no home .
America has been sold long ago and the show now is just the closing of the deal .
Even DeSantis caved to the pedo Disney.

Last edited 1 year ago by armaros

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Reply to  Armaros

Russia is more free that the US is at this point and time. The liberal commie demos are worse that the Chinese communists.

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Nabi

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

Darkly funny that it’s the supposedly conservative types who are supporting the commie Russian creeps. Hard to figure how Trump could win again, leading such a bunch of losers, squealing away about the vax and Zelensky.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Hobbs need s to be dethroned and charged with Treason and given the appropriate sentence. which is 6ft under.

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From a Remote Location

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

It goes without saying that the main ones who want to see cat lady Hobbs in the governor’s chair are illegal aliens, drug cartels (especially those bringing Fentanyl into the country), human smugglers, and coyotes. There is no question she will surrender to those dark interests. Remember, she thought Texas’ and Florida’s governors were “wasting taxpayer money” by sending illegals in buses to “blue” enclaves.

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