Arizona GOP Files Lawsuit Asking for Hand Count of Votes by Precinct

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  1. HK_User

    HK_User A Productive Monkey is a Happy Monkey

    This is a way to find a lot of voting problems.
    HK

    By Tom Ozimek
    November 13, 2020 Updated: November 13, 2020
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    The Republican Party of Arizona has launched a lawsuit seeking a hand count of votes by precinct, as opposed to by voting center, arguing that this could yield a more accurate sampling of vote tallies.

    The lawsuit seeks to enforce a hand count by precinct, arguing that this is required by state statute. Maricopa County set up “vote centers” across the county in the 2020 election, rather than voters being assigned “polling places” in their precincts, as has been the traditional practice in prior elections.

    “There is a fundamental difference between sampling ‘polling centers’ and ‘precincts,’ most notable being the fact that there were only around 175 vote centers this election, but there were 748 precincts,” the Arizona GOP wrote in a release.

    The Arizona GOP argued that hand-counting by precinct “would therefore potentially result in a more precise sampling of votes.”

    Kelli Ward, chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, said in a statement that, “the question here is one of statutory construction, and whether the Secretary of State’s Elections Procedures Manual is able to supersede Arizona’s state law.”

    She said the hand count by precinct would provide voters with confidence in the result of the contested election, with the Trump campaign and Republican allies filing a raft of lawsuits amid allegations of voting irregularities.

    “Arizona voters deserve complete assurance that the law will be followed and that only legal ballots will be counted in the 2020 election,” she added.

    In a separate lawsuit, the Trump campaign, the Arizona GOP, and the Republican National Committee are seeking to block certification of the election result in Arizona until affected ballots can be reviewed manually.

    In Arizona, Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden held a lead of about 11,000 votes over President Donald Trump as of Thursday evening, with over 10,000 ballots left to count across the state. The lawsuit there seeks a halt in the certification in Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous.

    Trump campaign attorney Kory Langhofer told the judge in the case that the lawsuit challenges good-faith errors made in the counting of ballots. “We are not alleging fraud in this lawsuit,” Langhofer said. “We are not alleging that anyone is stealing the election here.”

    States are still counting and certifying the results of the election. When the count is completed, each governor is required by law to prepare “as soon as practicable” documents known as “Certificates of Ascertainment” of the vote. The certificates list the electors’ names and the number of votes cast for the winner and loser. The certificates, carrying the seal of each state, are sent to the archivist of the United States.

    Dec. 8 is the deadline for resolving election disputes at the state level. All state recounts and court contests over presidential election results are to be completed by this date. Most states set earlier deadlines for certification in November.

    Matt Morgan, the Trump campaign’s general counsel, said Thursday evening they were seeking to halt certification until they can get a better handle on where the vote tallies are in states and whether they would have the right to automatic recounts.

    “Our legal strategy is to proceed to bring resolution to any of our issues prior to final certification,” Morgan said. He said the strategy would reveal itself to be successful in time. “You can’t eat an entire apple in one bite.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

    This case is cited as Arizona Republican Party v. Fontes et al (CV2020-014553).
     
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  2. Ura-Ki

    Ura-Ki Grampa Monkey

    They need to demand more of this in the other states where there is CLEAR and OBVIOUS fraud!
     
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  3. ghrit

    ghrit Bad company Administrator Founding Member

    Sampling? What rot. Samples are notoriously inaccurate when precision is needed.
     
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  4. HK_User

    HK_User A Productive Monkey is a Happy Monkey

    Better yet they are trying to validate the vote and scam more!
     
  5. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    I see on the web where servers in GDR were seized last night. Ordinarily, this would be a classic nothng burger.

    What found interesting, according to the reports, is a US Army strike team hit the commercial site to secure the servers to ensure they did not get erased. Seems these belong to Dominion.

    Other reports (and I have seen the code snippets) show where the fix was inserted to change votes...

    All of which means jack without some indictments, arrests and a lot more information going out of the mass media - also unlikely to happen.

    Welcome to the new United States of Venezuela.
     
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  6. HK_User

    HK_User A Productive Monkey is a Happy Monkey

    And some kind of deal has gone down to validate the votes in Georgia BECAUSE voting fraud was so blatant that it would destroy the whole of US Voting Laws. Now we can't have that!

    Just like last time.

    APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
    apnews.com › article

    Oct 26, 2017 — A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, ...

    Like I said before, the fix is in.
     
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  7. ditch witch

    ditch witch I do stupid crap, so you don't have to

    I'm wondering if:
    1. The Army seizing Dominion servers in Germany actually happened, and
    2. If indeed this happened, is this "The Kraken" that attorney Sydney Powell said she was going to release?
    krakken.
     
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  8. enloopious

    enloopious Rocket Surgeon

     
  9. ditch witch

    ditch witch I do stupid crap, so you don't have to

    Rudy G is talking dirty on Twitter. Is this confirmation of the German seizure story?

    RudyGDominon.
     
  10. ghrit

    ghrit Bad company Administrator Founding Member

    Rudy is a blabber mouth. Even saying something before filing the docs is evidence of an inability to keep a secret, regardless of national security or the neighbor's playing with kids. I have no faith in the truth of that sort of brag.
     
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