Saturday, November 26, 2022

Challenges To AZ 2022 Election


Arizona is scheduled to Canvass its 2022 Election Results Dec. 5th, but a host of Challenges are standing in the way.

Some Losing GOP Candidates have Refused to concede their Races and hope to find reprieve in the Courts or through the Legal Certification procedures.

Kari Lake, Mark Finchem and Abe Hamadeh, who lost Races for Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General, respectively, are questioning the Election Results, and stoking Supporters to Protest in various ways.

Some of the Actions appear to feed off one another. For example, a GOP Official on Wednesday Refused to Sign-Off on an Examination of Voting Equipment moments after Hamadeh filed a Lawsuit challenging Election Results.

Finchem has been promoting the idea that the State will have to conduct a New Election because some Counties have Not yet Certified their Elections, although they have until Nov. 28th to do so.

Cochise County Refuses to Certify. Two of the Three County Commissioners Voted Friday, to wait until they had "Proof" the County Voting equipment and the Testing Lab, that Certified it both were properly Accredited. They Rescheduled a vote for Nov. 28th.

The Secretary of State's Office has pledged to seek a Court Order directing the County to Certify if the Supervisors don't do it themselves Nov. 28th, and failing a Court Order, will move on with the Statewide Certification without the heavily Republican County's nearly 50,000 Votes.

Wednesday, One of the Two Supervisors holding up the Certification, confirmed that she intended to Certify the Results as required by Law on Nov. 28th. "I'm good," Supervisor Peggy Judd said.

Mohave County Delays Certifying its Results, as Three County Supervisors this week, decided to also Delay their Certification until Nov. 28th, in what they called a show of Solidarity with Cochise Officials.

The Mohave GOP Supervisors who Voted to Delay, didn't have concerns about the Certification of Voting Machines like those in Cochise.

The Mohave Supervisors were frustrated with Election Day Problems in Maricopa County. The State's biggest County had Problems that included Printers that generated Ballots that couldn't be read by scanners because od Ink problems, long lines at Polling Sites, and confusing Directions from Officials on how Voters should proceed if they encountered Issues.










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