Posted on 07/19/2022 6:47:38 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
A federal judge announced he will hear evidence against the use of electronic voting machines in Arizona’s upcoming midterm elections on Thursday, July 21.
Judge John J. Tuchi issued an order on Monday granting the hearing in response to a request for a preliminary injunction against the use of electronic voting machines and subsequent motions to dismiss filed by defendants Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
The original injunction was filed by plaintiffs Kari Lake, a candidate for Arizona’s gubernatorial race, and Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, who is running for secretary of state.
“As there is substantial overlap in the motions, the Court will entertain consolidated presentations from the parties,” the judge ordered. “Plaintiffs will have no more than two hours to present all argument and, as pertains to their application for injunctive relief, evidence. Defendants shall have no more than three hours collectively to present their argument and evidence.”
In the complaint, Lake and Finchem argued that they have “a constitutional and statutory right to have their ballots, and all ballots cast together with theirs, counted accurately and transparently so that only legal votes determine the winners of each office contested in the Midterm Election.”
“The use of untested and unverified electronic voting machines violates the rights of Plaintiffs and their fellow voters and office seekers, and it undermines public confidence in the validity of election results,” the complaint reads. “Just as the government cannot insist on ‘trust me,’ so too, private companies that perform governmental functions, such as vote counting, cannot be trusted without verification.”
On July 21, a federal judge will hear the request from @KariLake and @RealMarkFinchem for a preliminary injunction to block the use of electronic machines in elections. Sets up to three hours for the hearing.
— Mary Jo Pitzl (@maryjpitzl) July 14, 2022
With weeks before the crucial primaries in Arizona, election officials are admitting they made a “mistake” with ballots.
As noted by Yahoo News, over 60,000 Pinal County voters received early voting ballots with mistakes, and county officials told local news stations that they do not have a clear solution of when they will correct the issues.
County Attorney Kent Volkmer said they estimate 63,000 ballots have been impacted so far, revealing that the County Elections Office sent out “mistaken” ballots to at least seven cities or towns in Pinal County.
Even more concerning, Volkmer admitted the county doesn’t have a clear solution.
“We are not sitting on our hands,” said Volkmer. “My office, we worked through the weekend Saturday, Sunday. We are exploring all of our options.”
“Right now, I believe potentially holding a separate special election for those districts seems to be the most likely scenario,” Volkmer added
He said that could change and the decision could come down to a judge, saying: “This is exclusively limited to these seven jurisdictions and their municipal races.”
“There are all of these legal requirements, and frankly impediments, to fix our error,” said Volkmer. “But it’s done to protect the voter.”
Pinal County elections director David Frisk is taking full responsibility for the mistake. “This was not a system glitch or a computer error or anything nefarious. It was no fault of anyone in the recorder’s office; it’s my mistake,” Frisk said.
Some Pinal County residents will have to file a second ballot after a “human error" caused 60,000 bad ballots to be sent out.
Because of the error, voters in 7 cities and towns in Pinal County received early ballots missing their local municipal races: https://t.co/TX7vWXqX2U pic.twitter.com/CT66ACMtaR
— Alexis Cortez (@alexisdcortez) July 13, 2022
“Human error” leads to 60K incorrect ballots sent out to Pinal County residents: https://t.co/8xKiPhQo4J pic.twitter.com/OsHFUp1W14
— azfamily 3TV CBS 5 (@azfamily) July 13, 2022
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who is also running to be Arizona’s next governor, said her office has completed an “extensive” investigation and found the system that created the ballots didn’t contribute to the errors on the ballots.
Her office claimed the system is still secure and reliable for the 2022 election.
“The Pinal County Elections Director David Frisk has been very clear that these issues were the result of human error,” Hobbs said. “The Secretary of State’s Office will continue to support Pinal County in correcting this issue and ensuring that all voters have a chance to cast a ballot in the appropriate elections.”
“The board unanimously voted to approve the plan. Volkmer says the bad ballots already sent out will still be good for federal, state, and county elections. Anyone who received a ballot missing a local town or city race must fill out a second ballot containing only those races,” AZ Family reported.
An Obama Judge.
Take a wild guess how he’s going to rule.
But at least Lake is fighting. She’s a fighter, like Trump. Anyone who doesn’t vote for her is a fool.
They’d better be able to bring in a voting machine and demonstrate a miscount in the courtroom or they’ve got nothing.
Personally, I don’t think the voting machines were the biggest problem; it was the totally out of control mail-in voting.
HOW TO ASSURE A CLEAN HONEST ELECTION:
1. Clean accurate voter roles
2. Picture ID
3. Paper Ballot
4. Multiple observers from all parties with close access.
5. Mail in ballots only for those with medical problems or out of the country. Signature verification a must.
6. No ballots accepted after election day.
7. Count the ballots under observation and see who won.
Yeah the rat SOS “conducted an extensive investigation”. Soros spent millions and years getting his people into the SOS offices in the swing states and it paid off big time. To a large degree the cheating is baked in now. We have to win by 7 to 10 points now or any lead at end of Election Day will be gone by the next morning.
Obama Judge game over. How is it every time a Trump related issue gets to court it ends up before a rat Judge. Every time.
The machines kept it close enough for the rest of the steal. In Georgia the count was halted half way through for a “software update” to the machines because the rigging was not enough.
“...use of untested and unverified electronic voting machines...”
Hopefully the plaintiffs’ presentations will anticipate and kill the counter-arguments (that the machines are “certified” and thus “tested” technically). Is there evidence that the machines “miscounted” what was fed into them? From the recounts, etc., that is not so much the problem as operator malfeasance on the collection and input side, joined by unaccountability after the election.
The core problem is not technical mal-function. It’s that the machines have capabilities that facilitate malfeasance all too well. This seems like a different (and larger) case, but maybe lightning will strike. Glad they are trying.
The landslide was so big that the 5% or so the voting machines could change wasn’t even close to overtaking the lead Trump had. The mail ins and stuffing the boxes was there ace in the hole. They could use those to bring in as many ballots as needed..
Apparently they cannot be audited because the source code is ‘proprietary’.
I don’t know what is so proprietary about election code... You get a vote, you add 1 to someone’s column.
Easy~!
Anything propriety I maintain is hiding somethign illegal.
ALL VOTING SOFTWARE SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE.
I write software for a living. I could tell them exactly how to make computer voting safe and guarantee accurate results.
But no one has asked me yet.
Can’t forget a chain-of-custody (track # out/in, elim. the ‘lost/found’ issue) of ALL ballots as well as a ballot validation (MICR, micro-print+), to ensure it was within what was sent out for use
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