10 February 2022

ARIZONA FREEDUMB & DEMOCRAZY: An Entire Cast of Characters

Intro: A state lawmaker representing part of Pinal County has called on the state to decertify the 2020 election ahead of the release of an ‘audit’ of Maricopa County votes. State Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley. who is running for secretary of state, said he is basing that in part on “preliminary audit results.”
 

Seditious Insurrectionist Oath Keeper Rep. Mark Finchem Files Bill To ‘Decertify’ Arizona’s 2020 Presidential Election (Not An Actual Thing)

By |February 8th, 2022|AZ Politics 

"We all knew this was the end objective of the widely debunked and discredited Arizona Senate GQP sham “fraudit” of the 2020 (only election deniers aka Trump truthers believe this cR-AZy shit).

Seditious insurrectionist Oath Keeper Rep. Mark Finchem (a QAnon and Trump cultist) has introduced a bill to “decertify” the 2020 election in Arizona. Not all election results, mind you,  just the presidential election.

Just to be clear, decertifying a presidential election is not an actual thing, it only exists in the furtive imaginations of Qanon and Trump cultists. These people are simply too crazy – and too dangerous – to be allowed anywhere near an elected office.

[ See, More than 80 Trump truthers are aiming for a power grab:

At least 51 Republican candidates who have falsely claimed that Trump won the election, spread lies about the election’s legitimacy, backed “forensic” audits, promoted conspiracy theories or took other actions to undermine election integrity are running for governor in 24 states, according to States United Action, a nonpartisan group tracking election deniers running for office. In some states, multiple election deniers are running in the same primary.

At least 21 election deniers are running for secretary of state in 18 states, an office that would put them in power to oversee voting in their states. Another 11 election deniers are running for attorney general, which would position them to get involved in election litigation and law enforcement matters. ]

Seditious insurrectionist Oath Keeper Rep. Mark Finchem is running for Arizona Secretary of State. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars this seditious insurrectionist from running for office.

Section 3.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

Here is seditious insurrectionist Oath Keeper Rep. Mark Finchem in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, “giving aid and comfort” to his fellow seditious insurrectionists.

A legal challenge to his qualifications to run for office should already have been filed against him with the Secretary of State. If it hasn’t, file one now.

A state lawmaker representing part of Pinal County has called on the state to decertify the 2020 election ahead of the release of an ‘audit’ of Maricopa County votes.

“I am calling it,” state Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, said in a Twitter post earlier this month.

“I call on Arizona to decertify the election of 2020 and recall the electors,” he said, though there appears to be no legal precedent for that. “There is already enough evidence to show clear and convincing fraud.”

In fact, there is literally NO EVIDENCE. . .Finchem represents Legislative District 11, which includes Maricopa, Arizona City, Picacho, Saddlebrooke, Marana and Oracle.

WTF is wrong with you people who live in this district and elect this damn fool to office?

House Speaker Rusty Bowers appears ready to kill this bill like he did the election subversion bill from election denier Rep. John Fillmore.

Arizonans will learn Friday whether a firm hired by the Senate will confirm or dispute official results which showed that Joe Biden outpolled Donald Trump in Maricopa County by enough of a margin to win the state’s 11 electoral votes.

And that presumes the report by Cyber Ninjas, which has no previous experience with elections and was funded largely by donations from Trump supporters, is considered credible. [It’s not.]

Capitol Media Services already has learned that the presentation set for 1 p.m. on Friday in the Senate chambers, will include at least two findings by others involved in the review of problems with the election returns.

(1) Former Secretary of State Ken Bennett

(2) Shiva Ayyadurai

Ayyadurai, known to his fans online simply as Dr. Shiva, is an MIT-trained engineer and entrepreneur known for his disputed claim that he invented email. He has a history of promoting discredited and debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, including during a day-long event at the downtown Phoenix Hyatt several weeks after the election that featured Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani

. . .And Senate President Karen Fann has asked the attorney general to investigate Ayyadurai’s obviously false findings.

> But the big question is bound to be whether the report — if it is to be believed — can verify or dismiss claims of fraud, malfeasance or just sloppy work that led Maricopa County to report that Biden got 45,109 more votes than Trump. That edge was enough to overturn Trump support in rural counties, giving Biden a final victory margin of 10,457.

That presentation will come from Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas.

> One report will come from Ben Cotton, founder of a firm called CyFIR who examined the election tabulation equipment that the county surrendered to the Senate under subpoena. Cotton already has made claims county election equipment was vulnerable to hacking, a contention disputed by county officials.

> Randy Pullen, a former chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, will report a third count of the 2.1 million ballots by machine to compare that with both the number reported by the county and the number counted by Cyber Ninjas.

> Also weighing in was former Congressman Matt Salmon who is hoping to become the Republican nominee for governor. . .

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And the Arizona Democratic Party already has scheduled a press conference four hours before the report is released, calling it a “farcical, conspiracy-drive audit” that is “a disgrace to our democratic processes.”

It isn’t only Democrats, however, who have raised questions. Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, running against Finchem for the Republican nomination for secretary of state, said she supported an audit but that it “has been botched,” blaming that on “total lack of competence by Fann.”

 

 

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