Posted on 12/03/2022 8:53:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Judge Casey McGinley of the Pima County Superior Court instructed Cochise County’s board of supervisors to convene and declare the results official by 5 p.m. MT on Thursday.
McGinley ruled that the failure of two Republican supervisors to certify the results before the state’s legal deadline was illegal.
On Monday, the lone Democrat on the three-person panel, supervisor Anne English, voted against the motion to postpone the results, while Republican supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby voted to postpone.
Following the certification on Thursday, state officials in Arizona will now be able to proceed with statewide certification on Monday after the board voted 2–0 to certify the outcomes of the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
English and Judd cast the deciding votes to certify, with Republican Tom Crosby abstaining from the court-ordered hearing.
Cochise County’s Board of Supervisors sought to push back certifying the results in order to further review claims that the county’s voting equipment was not properly certified in accordance with the law.
According to election officials, the machinery was properly approved.
Cochise County, which borders Mexico, has always been a bastion of Republican and conservative voters.
After the two Republican members of the board voted to delay certification, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who was declared the victor of the state’s governor contest, sued Cochise County earlier this week.
Cochise County “had a statutory duty to certify the results of the 2022 General Election” by Nov. 28., Hobbs said on Twitter, where she shared screenshots of the lawsuit.
According to Hobb’s lawsuit, failure to certify the results before Dec. 1 will “sow greater confusion and doubt about the integrity of Arizona’s election system” and asked the court to issue an injunction compelling officials to do so.
“The Board’s inaction not only violates the plain language of the statute but also undermines a basic tenet of free and fair elections in this state: ensuring that every Arizonan’s voice is heard,” the lawsuit (pdf) reads.
Hobb’s lawsuit stated that without the court’s intervention, she would have no choice, as Arizona’s chief elections official in her role as secretary of state, but to complete the statewide canvass by Dec. 8 “without Cochise County’s votes included.”
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judge NEEDS TO BE REMOVED
It will if we restore our republic.
But only then.
This is not a judge, this is a partisan Demonrat.
I won’t say what I think that will require.
It will require more then just posting on social media. The protests in Arizona are poorly attended and low energy.
Exactly! What is the point of even having certification?
certify
sûr′tə-fī″
intransitive verb
To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine.
Just shut down the certification process completely and save some time and money since it is meaningless. In fact, just skip the vote counting and just have the SOS declare the winner, because that is essentially what happened here.
The insistence on certifying fraudulent results demands people in the streets. Play by their rules: picket the home of the judge. No justice, no sleep.
My honest opinion.
No.
Unless we do something
No one wants to end up in a gulag like what happened Jan 6
As Pence similarly asserted, Hobbes is lying about a “statutory duty” to certify.
Without arguing the language of the statute, we can clearly see that such certification is imbed in the Constitution’s separation of powers and overlapping authorities. This judge ought to have his robe taken from him and led to the exit.
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Not as long as we have corrupt judges like this. It is not illegal to not certify the results if those results are a result of cheating or corruption. Apparently this corrupt judges is too stupid (or political) to understand this.
Everyone knew that. My point was a joke to show how meaningless their certification was if it was forced by the court regardless of any corruption.
And those people found out they are pretty much on their own with little to no support from the outside. Many of the 1/6 people had to resort to using public defenders. A number, seeing their situation was hopeless, pled guilty to lesser charges in order to avoid jail time .
Yup. The left attacked lawyers who wanted to defend them.
I think you’ve nailed it.
They’re being asked to certify the voting results in Cochise County. Does anyone allege cheating or corruption in Cochise?
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