Arizona Republican Chairwoman Kelli Ward provides an update on the Maricopa County ballot audit and the new subpoenas sent by the state senate to county election officials who are refusing to comply voluntarily with requests for information.
The second hand count of the raw ballot totals was completed earlier today. Mrs. Ward walks through the content of the subpoenas and the purpose for them.
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At the same time Arizona is wrapping up the ballot counting phase, it appears the Lawfare group is writing legal guidance on behalf of the DOJ. A seven page memo, with no official legal standing, was released today by the DOJ in an effort to intimidate any state or local officials who are conducting audits. The memo [view pdf here] looks like it was generated from within the “beach friend” community of Lawfare, the assembly of former DOJ members who are rabid political ideologues.
(Politico) – […] “While the Biden administration “guidance” document carries no formal legal weight and may not strike fear into local officials, the Justice Department used the release of the legal analysis to press their campaign of saber-rattling against Republican-led audits of the 2020 vote in Arizona and other states, as well as voting changes many GOP-controlled states are pursuing as part of purported anti-fraud efforts.” (read more)
Notice “guidance document” & “legal analysis”, which are political code-words to describe the Lawfare group writing their collective advice into a memo and the DOJ presenting it to allied media in an effort to give it some enhanced credibility.
Does anyone know who in the Florida Elections Commission was selected to set on the ERIC Board of Directors? In 2019, 2020 and 2021?
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negasht7: July 28, 2021 11:55 pm: “They have until Monday to comply with subpoenas. Not the first to ask this and I won’t be the last, but how do we get splunk logs, network logs, routers and images if the subpoenas aren’t honored? Can they really be ignored?”
The items being withheld by Maricopa County are key to determining what kinds of actions and events happened as the vote management processes for the 2020 election cycle moved forward through time.
Detailed knowledge of those actions and events is necessary to connect the dots among other pieces of evidence now in the auditor’s hands which would indicate whether or not criminally chargeable election tampering might have occurred.
The Arizona election audit cannot be complete as an end-to-end forensic audit — one which tracks the progression of the county’s vote tabulation processes from before November 3rd, through November 3rd, and after November 3rd — if this material is successfully withheld.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors now has every reason to believe that if they don’t supply the items subpoenaed, they will pay no penalty whatsoever for having done so, thus avoiding culpability for any criminal election fraud which occurred.
On the other hand, if they willingly surrender these items, then they risk the consequences for themselves and for their Uniparty allies if massive vote fraud is proven beyond shadow of doubt to have happened. It’s easy to predict that the Board of Supervisors will not release these items unless and until an authorized criminal investigation forces them to.
They are never going to hand over anything. What may happen is if they release their report on their findings and if it shows massive voting issues, then criminal charges against the BOS can begin if the States AG grows a pair of balls. If these aren’t handed over and no criminal charges are brought up, none of the cheaters are going to give up anything in all the other states. Maybe Mike Lindell has the info to show what happened in Arizona.
We might be being set-up here, folks. They keep saying they “can’t complete” the audit without all the stuff the Board has and won’t give them. One wonders…does that mean if the Board somehow finally succeeds in not handing over the stuff that the Auditors can then throw up their hands and say, “Well, we can’t finalize the audit so the finding we have to-date are irrelevant and we can’t publish them.”
I think of Sundance’s suspicious cat.
Precisely: I have had no hope about this going anywhere.
Sorry to be pessimistic, but we have seen too many predictions this past year about how “THIS IS GOING TO BE HUUUGE!”
And it fades away into the ether…and the DEMS go out for a kale smoothie and laugh again at how they have stayed in power.
I have no issues with Kelli Ward though most Republicans are totally flat-footed in defense of election audits.
It is the right of citizens to demand an audit to validate the results of an election where fraud has been attempted and/or proven. There are ample cases of it in every swing state. Once these are audited, further it to every county in every state.
It might be helpful if in a concise bullet point manner, some R’s would get out there and enumerate what is required of officials doing elections.
For example, a certain type of paper stock is required and all material must be maintained for 22 months. It lays the groundwork for explaining the results the audits will expose.
AZ, Constitution sanctuary state. Feds stay out.
Sounds like obstruction of justice.
Audit results: Fraud. They stole the election.
DOJ response: No they didn’t.
That’s all progressives need.
Kelli Ward is such a fighter!
Millions and millions of Americans (and even people all around the world!) thank you, Kelli!
This reeks of intimidation and obstruction of Justice should they act upon these threats. Turning the laws against their intent.
The Current Federal Government hates the fact that this CONSTITUTION thing keeps getting in their way. Oh, the frustration! To be a Red state AG or Sheriff. Think of the fun you could have.
The feds have NO standing on this, its clearly laid out in the Constitution these elections are to be conducted by the States, and Sleepy-Creeyp’s power to stick their stinking noses in this is not there, and will need to be challenged in court. Carry on States!
Is there no legal penalty that would help with enforcemnet of the subpoenas?. I guess not or the Arizona Senate would already have tried to enforce their subpoenas. When a court ordered subpoena can’t be enforced against a government agency, there are no rules to the orderly procedures of civil government.
Why doesn’t the state senate sargent at arms just put these jokers in the klink? Put them behind bars till they cough up what’s requested/needed!!!
their scared of the feds .
I love Dr. Kellie Ward
Something is terribly wrong here. Kelli Ward needs a great deal fo help with this Folks ! They must hav a strong arm. thye need to have the State Police with its swat teams to immediately arrest those who fail to comply ! who is protecting these criminals. Thye must also be her in contempt for disobeying the Legislature Branch. who is going to charge them criminally??
When parties behave suspiciously and do not comply with a legal audit request it shines a bigger light ? on the supposedly validity of the certified election results. If you have nothing to hide, hide nothing. When we actually get the results their proof will have to be scrutinized even further.