"Chemo-Trail Kelli" has a new perch, but this time she's out-on-a-limb joined by some of the state's political fringe (Gosar, Biggs to name only two) with one more 'loco'- lawsuit to get filed by November 30th.
Here's just one story on the ballot re-count
AZGOP chair eyes nullification of presidential election in new lawsuit
Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward wants a judge to allow her to examine ballots to determine if any were improperly counted in an effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, though she hasn’t shown any evidence of the theoretical problems she’s alleging.
". . .Ward plans to bring suit under a state law permitting any voter in the state to challenge election results on grounds of misconduct by election officials, illegal votes or if the loser is declared the winner through an “erroneous count of votes.” She is suing in her capacity as an individual and as an elector for President Donald Trump.
It is the latest challenge from state Republicans to the results of the election, which Biden won by about 10,500 votes. This is the fifth lawsuit involving Arizona’s election results and the second involving Ward.
According to the proposed complaint, the chairwoman will request that “the Court declare that the certificate of election of the Biden electors is of no further legal force or effect,” and “that the election is annulled and set aside” in accordance with a state law permitting a judge to reject the outcome of an election if a lawsuit shows that result to be improper. If an inspection of ballots proves Trump got the highest number of votes, Ward wants the judge to declare his electors as the winners.
But before a judge can nullify the results of the presidential election in Arizona, Ward must show that enough votes were improper to warrant such a drastic result. And in order to help her show that, she’s asking a judge to allow her to examine ballots while she prepares to file her lawsuit after the state canvass of the 2020 general election is certified on Monday.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner will hold a hearing in the matter on Monday at 10:30 a.m.
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Fraud involving ballot signatures is rare, according to election officials in Arizona, where the majority of people vote by early ballot, as well as in other states that conduct all-mail elections, a list that includes Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
The lawsuit also alleges that there could have been problems with “duplicate” ballots in the East Valley-based 5th Congressional District and the suburb of Queen Creek, which is part of the district.
. . . several Republican elected officials raised questions after Garrett Archer, an elections data analyst with ABC15 and former Secretary of State’s Office employee, reported that in one precinct of Queen Creek with more than 1,000 voters, Trump won 67.4 percent of the vote in 2016 but only 58.5 percent in 2020.
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It’s unclear who will defend against the lawsuit. Hobbs isn’t named as a defendant, nor is Maricopa County or any county officials. The only defendants are the 11 Democratic electors who are committed to Biden, a list that includes Arizona Democratic Party Chair Felecia Rotellini, Tohono O’odham Chairman Ned Norris, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, Corporation Commissioner Sandra Kennedy, Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis and Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors met in executive session to receive legal advice about the lawsuit on Wednesday. A spokesman for the county wouldn’t comment on whether the board plans to intervene as a defendant.
This is the second lawsuit that Ward and Wilenchik have brought since Election Day. The Arizona Republican Party sued Maricopa County, alleging that it improperly conducted its post-election hand count of ballots. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge dismissed the suit and took the rare move of inviting the Secretary of State’s Office to seek attorney’s fees under a statute pertaining to frivolous or bad-faith lawsuits.
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In an article today, published in the New York Times, it had this to say about Kelli Ward:
"The election’s results are also showing just how much the state party is tied to Mr. Trump. Kelli Ward, the chairman of the state’s Republican Party, has refused to accept Mr. Trump’s defeat and repeatedly raised the possibility that cheating took place, without evidence, and has received support from two of the state’s congressmen, Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs.
Ms. Ward said in an interview that more lawsuits are on the horizon, and that the president has other options available to him even if his lawsuits continue to fail, though she declined to specify what those could be. . ."
SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/politics/arizona-settles-in-to-life-as-a-magenta-state.html
“There are more coming, and you don’t always have to have a lawsuit to get to the bottom of election fraud. There are a lot of irregularities, those are going to continue to come out,” she said.
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