Posted on 12/16/2022 8:57:08 PM PST by Coronal
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge tossed a lawsuit on Friday filed by former GOP candidates Mark Finchem and Jeff Zink that challenges the results of November’s general election. Judge Melissa Iyer Julian dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, which means it cannot be filed again. The judge also confirmed Adrian Fontes won the election and is the secretary of state-elect for Arizona.
Finchem, who ran for secretary of state, and Zink, a former candidate in Congressional District 3, filed a lawsuit on Dec. 9 to overturn the results of the election. The lawsuit claimed that current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs abused her power by failing to have tabulation machines properly certified and for threatening the boards of supervisors in Mohave and Cochise counties with criminal charges if they didn’t certify the election.
The lawsuit also alleged Hobbs should have recused herself from her position as secretary of state since she was running for governor. The lawsuit asked for an inspection of some mail-in ballots to compare signatures and compare “duplicate” ballots, especially for ballots in Congressional District 3. Zink was later taken off the lawsuit.
On Tuesday morning, during a court hearing to show cause, the Secretary of State’s Office said they would be filing a motion to dismiss the suit, calling the claims “baseless” and “sanctionable.” That’s when the judge scheduled Friday morning’s hearing. With the dismissal, Hobbs and Fontes have 10 days to file a motion for sanctions, which could mean they could force Finchem and Zink to pay the lawyer fees.
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The good news is that it’s going to be Kati the Hogg’s problem. Another Marxist RAT utopia rapidly gone to hell, LOL. All my relatives still live in Arizona but I had to haul ass. It is too close to Cauliphonya for me.
No
I would like to do that, but it’s difficult to find that info on the large number of judges on the ballot.
Judge Melissa Iyer Julian
Two last names is often a tell. She’s a rat bank it. As we have seen the rats learned in 18 and 20 it is damn near impossible to delay an election result let alone reverse one after it’s cast.
There were no allegations of “voter fraud” in Mark Finchem’s complaint.
References to “illegal votes” appear to be part of an argument that some votes were counted illegally, as opposed to votes cast illegally.
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