The Republican in Arizona is not confirmed by the election
2022.11.30 12:50
The Republican in Arizona is not confirmed by the election
Budrigannews.com – Defying a state deadline and setting the stage for a legal battle, Republican officials in one Arizona county who have embraced theories of voter fraud resisted certifying the midterm election results on Monday.
The two Republican members of the three-person board of supervisors in Cochise County, a conservative stronghold in southeastern Arizona, decided to delay certifying the county’s election results.
They stated that those who have argued, without providing any evidence, that the county’s voting machines were not properly certified needed to provide additional evidence.
Democrat Ann English told Reuters that the delay was irresponsible and that the board had been pressured by election deniers to reject the results.
A spokesperson for Arizona’s secretary of state stated that the office would sue Cochise County on
Monday to compel the board to certify the results in accordance with state law. Last week, the office sent a letter to the board with license documentation for the voting machines.
Sophia Solis, the spokesperson, stated, “Facts are not debatable, and we are not going to participate in baseless attacks against Arizona’s democracy.”
Since former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from him, Arizona has been at the center of election fraud allegations. In Arizona and elsewhere, several recounts of the 2020 votes confirmed Joe Biden’s victory.
Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor of the state in this year’s election, has refused to concede since she was defeated by her opponent, the current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, by just over 17,000 votes in the election on Nov. 8.
It was viewed as a powerful rebuke of candidates who echoed Trump’s myths about a stolen election when Lake and other election deniers were defeated.However, some activists are refusing to back down from their false claims of voter fraud.
During a public meeting on Monday that concluded with the board of supervisors approving the county’s election results, residents in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest region, verbally criticized the board.
On Sunday, county officials issued a report outlining the dysfunction that occurred on Election Day. 71 of the county’s 223 polling locations experienced issues with printer ink that was insufficiently dark to scan ballots.
Maricopa authorities have said that an expected 17,000 electors were impacted by the issue yet that it was immediately tended to.
At Monday’s gathering, one lady referred to the province managers as “backstabbers.”
She stated to Bill Gates, the chairman of the board, that interfering in an election was “considered treason, punishable by the death penalty,” and that those who snatched the election “make violent revolution necessary.”
The board was awaiting Maricopa’s explanations of what happened to the ballots of its affected voters when the local government in Mohave County, another conservative area in Arizona, delayed certifying the results last week.
The Mohave board approved the election results on Monday, but it also criticized Maricopa’s performance.
Supervisor Hildy Angius stated, “Arizona – and that is Maricopa County – is the laughing stock of the country and world and they don’t even seem to care.”
Prior to the state’s certification on Dec. 5, Arizona law requires counties to certify election results by Nov. 28.
The nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research’s executive director, David Becker, stated that the officials delaying certification were fostering an illegitimate distrust of elections and denying voters their right to vote.
“Somewhat recently, it’s turned into an extraordinary neglect of obligation for area authorities to disregard their pledges of office and decline to confirm political race results, refering to ‘premonitions’ or claimed issues in locales other than their own,” Becker said.
