Posted on 12/01/2022 10:08:27 AM PST by karpov
The increasing ridiculousness of the stance of the supervisors in Cochise County, Ariz., appears to be another hard lesson of, “Don’t elect lunatics to positions of serious public responsibility”:
Cochise County officials may go to court Thursday without an attorney to represent them against charges that they broke the law by failing to certify the results of the Nov. 8 election.
County supervisors on Tuesday voted to hire attorney Bryan Blehm to defend them and the county government against two lawsuits, even though they had not discussed the matter with him. On Wednesday, they were caught flat-footed when Blehm declined the offer, as did another attorney he had recommended.
The three supervisors are due in a Bisbee courtroom at 1 p.m. as a judge considers requests from Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, as well as a retiree group, to order the board to certify election results. That certification, by law, was due Monday. But on a 2-1 vote, the board voted to delay a decision until week’s end.
Blehm represented the self-named “Cyber Ninjas,” the group that ran the controversial Maricopa County audit of the 2020 election. Apparently, he took one look at the county supervisors’ situation and said, “No thanks.”
When no lawyer wants to take your case, that’s probably a sign that you’ve stumbled into a position that is exceptionally difficult to defend in a court of law.
If you are a Republican officeholder, you enjoy the same First Amendment rights as anyone else and have every right to publicly argue that the Arizona election had too many problems to be legitimate. You would be wrong on the facts, as Maricopa County’s elections department — and county lawyer Rachel Mitchell — have declared, repeatedly, that “every voter was afforded the ability to legally and securely cast their ballot,”
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It's much easier for me to believe the voters prefer someone else than to believe in immense, sprawling conspiracies.
“...co-mingled ballots and bad chain of custody”. According to who..?? What proof and/or evidence is there to support this claim??
I live in Arizona, and sourced documents have been all over FR for the last three weeks. I was posting an argument, not an exhaustive pesearch report on ground that is already well-tread and easily available for those following this.
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Enough with the "We wuz robbed again!" narrative.
At its base, it's emasculating. It turns us in to helpless babes who just can't stop those wily Democrats from outsmarting us and stealing our elections over and over again.
At the end of the day, Lake lost independent voters by double digits. She lost McCain Republicans. You can't win if only your base shows up. You've got to bring in voters from the middle.
Politics 101.
The week before the election she told McCain Republicans to get the hell out. In Maricopa County.
But of course her subsequent loss must surely be fraud.
I immediately recalled Charlie Crist's "I don't want your votes!" speech and that's when I felt a pit in my stomach. That's what people who are going to lose say.
So the National Review has gone full native then? Shills for Democrats?
With friends like NRO who needs enemies?
Courts should stop automatically assuming there’s no “there” there....
SMOKE every where. Pinching your nose shut and saying you don’t smell it won’t stop you from burning to death.
Yet another indication you are living in a banana republic.
He defended the British soldiers involved in the “Boston massacre”.
Re: 1 - Agreed. It’s an unpopular view with most on this thread. But Republicans better figure out a way to litigate and win in such cases, instead of using the Mike Lindell legal strategy (over promise and never deliver).
Re: 65 - You see, that’s how you win elections. You tell voters that their vote is not needed and to leave. It’s amazing how successful that is!
Impossible! When you tell voters to get the hell out of a rally, that gets you MORE votes!
No?
Lake was such an idiot for doing that.
How are the results of Republican efforts to counter election theft similar to Klaus Schwab’s diet recommendations?
Crickets.
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Very funny. 😉
It’s easier to believe in that. That way you don’t have to consider candidate temperament, how the candidate is on the issues, how well they ran their campaign.
Because a loss, any loss, is due to a conspiracy. It’s lazy.
Strawman. Your words, not mine. It appears that the "conspiracy" we are seeing is confined to Democrat election officials in control of Maricopa county, and we've already seen evidence (cyber ninja audit) demonstrating a serious problem in that county.
BS. Do you know a single thing about how elections are administered in Maricopa County?
What is the minimum number of people you think would have to be involved to concoct and execute this scheme?
You would need to devise a technical problem that you could introduce into multiple printers at multiple sites, and do it in a way that would avoid detection by the technicians, all of the poll workers, the other supervisors, and the auditors.
We know Katie Hobbs is one. How many more people would it take?
Do you give her credit for being that capable?
Your problem is you know it would require a large conspiracy in Maricopa County and a gigantic one to do it nationwide, as many claim happened in 2020. But you don't want to own the implications of your theory.
Yes. They allow 70,000 fake votes and then refuse to do anything about it. They shut down all the voting machines for most of the areas known to support Kari Lake.
That is all anyone needs to know. They have lost the presumption of honesty in that county. They are now presumed dishonest until proven otherwise.
You would need to devise a technical problem that you could introduce into multiple printers at multiple sites, and do it in a way that would avoid detection by the technicians, all of the poll workers, the other supervisors, and the auditors.
Are you unfamiliar with computer technology? I actually write code in both C++ and Assembly. I could do that without breaking a sweat. It is a big nothing. A single person involved in setting up the machine software could do that.
Do you give her credit for being that capable?
Like corrupt idiot Biden, and gob of flesh retarded uncle Fester Fetterman, other people do the dirty work for these imbeciles.
The only requirement is that the electee does what the corrupt Democrat party wants done. The Democrat party is the public face of a massive corruption system not unlike the Mafia, but with official sanction by the governing officials.
Your problem is you know it would require a large conspiracy in Maricopa County and a gigantic one to do it nationwide, as many claim happened in 2020.
"Russia! Russia! Russia!"
Antifa. Blm. Lying "news" liars. Don't talk to me about nationwide conspiracies. We are drowning in them.
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