Posted on 07/18/2021 6:03:49 PM PDT by bitt
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the state Senate doesn’t have the ability to recall electors for the Nov. 3, 2020, election, after a fellow Republican lawmaker called for new elections.
Fann told One America News Network (OANN), which has been covering the audit of Maricopa County, that the upper chamber has the ability to provide auditors with the materials they need—including through the use of subpoenas—but the certification of electors is a different matter.
“The Senate body—we do not have the authority to do that. So, this is what we have said, and I want to make this very clear on the record,” the Republican state leader said on July 16.
Fann’s comments came as former President Donald Trump issued a statement declaring that the audit revealed there were irregularities and fraud that would have swayed the election in his favor last year. On July 15, the Senate held a hearing in the midst of a months-long review carried out by Florida-based tech firm Cyber Ninjas and teams told lawmakers they discovered discrepancies.
Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, told senators that auditors couldn’t find any record of Maricopa County sending more than 74,000 mail-in ballots and also discovered that around 18,000 people voted, but were taken off voter rolls “soon after the election.” He also noted that there were “11,326 people who were not on the voter rolls on Nov. 7, 2020, but appeared on the rolls on Dec. 4, 2020, and 3,981 people who voted after registering after Oct. 15, 2020.”
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Snip...”But soooo many believed this was going to reverse the electors from AZ, then ripple to other states. Not happening”
What this means is the electors should not have been certified and the protest on Jan 6 was legitimate and necessary.
If our ancestors thought like that, we'd still be singing God Save the Queen.
“But they were not fraudulently appointed” is the argument that states will make. I believe the states win that argument.
And what to do “when they are later discovered” assumes that discovery is sanctioned by the state. It’s the same slight of hand used by those claiming (wrongly) that some states sent competing slates of electors. No, they did not.
You’re going to be disappointed, as this will not be occurring.
“Fann’s comments came as former President Donald Trump issued a statement declaring that the audit revealed there were irregularities and fraud that would have swayed the election in his favor last year.”
If we didn’t live in George Orwell’s 1984 the sentence above would just be another sentence in a news article - but since we do live in Orwell’s 1984, I’ll translate it to how our media would have written it:
“Fann’s comments came as former President Donald Trump issued a statement FALSELY declaring that the audit revealed there were irregularities and fraud that would have swayed the election in his favor last year.”
Do you think any State is ready, willing, and able to do that?
It won’t be occurring because the GOP wants Biden to be POTUS. The bipartisan nature of the coup won’t be changing after 5 years.
This audit circus has always been GOP CYA and GOTV for the midterms. No thanks. Fool mw once, etc.
Thanks for giving the dems a talking point
(not you bitt)
Actually, the Constitution doesn't call for a general election in the first place, and in fact since the process of chusing Electors is a reserved State power, even if there are to be elections, there are 51 of them, not a "general" election.
You should really become a motivational speaker! You are just as cheerful as can be! Don’t let ANYONE call you a douchebag- you’re great!
I believe there’s a lot of truth in what you write. One need only look to repeal of a Obamacare as a fund fundraising tool prior to the 2016 elections. Votes to repeal in the House, knowing full well it was not going anywhere. Then when Republicans had control of both chambers and the Presidency, excuses about how it was tough to repeal, etc, etc.
Lots of talk. I think the status quo was preferred.
President Trump’s lawsuit probably has more power and by the way he has STANDING.
Actually it does, for Senators and Congressmen. All the states and DC have decided to allow the voters to also select the electors for president and vice president and use the same election day for that.
Hmmmmm. Why wasn’t she saying this over and over in beginning. She hoped the results would not be proven fraudulent is why. Sounds like she has lost hope. Good.
“.. US Constitution allows no further dispute...”
Where in the Constitution do you read that?? I thought the Constitution was silent on that subject.
And in matters where the Constitution is silent the Constitution says the States take responsibility. (10th Amendment)
Somebody needs to sit down with Karen Fann and review the 10th amendment.
I agree.
“Something MUST be done!” But for something to be done there has to be a way to do it.
I don’t know if anyone here has worked in project management, but there has to be a process.
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