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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Is the BS ever going to stop?
Sorry judge, but we’re going to determine that, thank you
very much.
When it’s over, we’ll let you know. (dumb ass)
Statutory duty to prevent fraud and investigate irregularities too, judge.
It is worse than that. I fesr for the Cochise County Supervisors.
A civil responsibility outweighs a statutory duty.
JMO, YMMV
If an election is certified by default, then why bother with a certification date, process, etc.?
This judge is dreadful.
Without being over skeptical, why did it take the county
this long to figure out the voting machine issue?
It seems that there would have to be shenanigans involved
to prevent it. Is the judge unable to grasp that, or are
the Republicans incompetent?
“sow greater confusion and doubt about the integrity of Arizona’s election system”
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
That is a good one Blobbs!
Funny how they never recognize that little fact.
They LOVE the idea of VOTING, BUT ONLY IF YOU VOTE THE WAY THEY DEMAND YOU DO.
There is a lack defined process in elections when state law has been broken, in the past the fraud would have had a party pushing the sham, would be shut out in the next and many more elections. That would need the press to report some of the misdeeds and not walk around constantly saying nothing to see here.
You’re right. It’s a sloppy process all the way around > IMO.
No one is doing their duty as it relates to these elections.
Cochise should hand them a signed form stating. “We certify (fill in name) is the winner” and just let Hobbs or whoever fill in the name.
That would be representative of the joke the whole procedure is.
“Cochise should hand them a signed form stating. “We certify (fill in name) is the winner” and just let Hobbs or whoever fill in the name.”
Cochise is a solid red county and the winner in Cochise as far as the Governor’s race, was Kari Lake. She beat Hobbs by 18 points, an easy victory. The County Supervisors in Chochise were only responsible for certifying Cochise County results, and they certified Kari Lake as the winner.
Everyone has a “statutory” requirement to obey the speed limits while driving.
How about when you need to race your baby to the ER because he’s bleeding to death?
So the law forces people to cerify a crime? The rule of law is dead.
That election is only certifiably insane.
Has Hobbs yet installed a horse as an Arizona senator? I can’t imagine that requiring a judge’s sanction. If it does, we know which judge to see about it.
Yes, will it ever return? My guess is, not to where it was before.
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