Posted on 11/09/2018 1:27:26 PM PST by Revel
PHOENIX — The Arizona Republican Party is alleging that Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes deliberately destroyed evidence to cover up “voting irregularities” as the county moves to count hundreds of ballots in the tight U.S. Senate race between Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema.
In a statement released Friday, Chairman Jonathan Lines said the party sent a formal, written request to all the county recorders in Arizona, including Fontes, requesting that all evidence of “irregularities” be preserved after they were discovered during the early voting period.
Lines pointed to the use of emergency voting centers and an “inconsistent method” for counting early ballots as some of the irregularities. Lines said the party informed Fontes that there may be a legal challenge based on the irregularities and that state law required county recorders to set aside the disputed ballots during the legal process.
But instead, Lines claimed, Fontes “directed his office to mix the disputed ballots in with the undisputed ballots — thereby ensuring that there could be no review of voting irregularities.”
“Fontes’s decision was made deliberately, after receiving the letter from the Arizona Republican Party and being informed of his legal duty to preserve evidence,” Lines said in a statement.
Lines said the party is “reviewing all legal options at this time.”
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Ya think?
Isn’t there a hearing going on right now? Should be interesting to hear what happens.
Decertification of the county(ies) and JAIL TIME
is in order.
Will the SOS certify them now or toss them all out is the question.
Remember when Grey Davis STOLE that California governor election with fake ballots. He needed about 14k more votes so HOURS after polls closed they magically came up with about 16k more votes!
JFK dad told him, Never buy more votes than you need to win.
$oro$ has spent many millions investing in secretaries of state elections lately.
Just want to thank the people of Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota for providing insurance against the dems stealing the senate and our constitution along with it. Turns out we needed that insurance policy. Damn, our election system sucks, and the dems sure like it that way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Reagan
Thankfully it looks like the AZ SOS is a solid Republican...
Toss all the late counts and go with the original results.
I can’t believe they are talking about counting PROVISIONAL BALLOTS. We hand those out to people who are NOT registered to vote. It merely registers them for the NEXT ELECTION. It is not meant to count as a vote in current election!
The leftists are melting down on twitter
It can count if it is proven to be a mistake. But you are right, they have to be proven first, not just counted.
Repeat the election. It cannot be reconciled any other way.
Good God, this country is now nothing more than a banana republic with nukes. So glad my WWII-vet Dad is no longer around to see what we’ve become.
Why? They’re getting what they want.
Oh, boy, I hear ya on that. My proud, Republican, WWII fighter pilot father would be devastated by how this country has changed.
Because they think President Trump is going to steal the election
The same election they are trying to steal lol
But they are never happy so what is the difference
But instead, Lines claimed, Fontes “directed his office to mix the disputed ballots in with the undisputed ballots — thereby ensuring that there could be no review of voting irregularities.”
This is exactly what is being reported in Broward County!
It’s almost like they all went to the same RAT seminar for “Rigging the Vote”.
Probably one in a million chance that it was a mistake. In all the years I worked elections, since 1996, I never knew of one that was a mistake. Mostly it was people who moved and or forgot to register to vote. They thought they could just walk in and vote. Our precinct judge was experienced in this and she always managed to calm them down, get them to fill out a provisional ballot, and assured them that this would register them to vote in the very next election. Most went away happy, very few threw a hissy fit. Never heard of any that were counted. Rules are rules and you must be registered about a month before the election in Texas. But that rule seems to be changing in many states. Rumors were that Beto was bussing in people, to get them to vote, each one had a $100 dollar bill in hand. I have no proof, just many rumors.
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