Current Events > Arizona's Secretary Of State Is Receiving Death Threats Over The Election

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https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-arizona-phoenix-elections-a2fe6a6f32ce125fa1baa2df61b14d51

PHOENIX (AP) The Arizona Republican Party is pressuring county officials across the state to delay their certification of election results even though there hasnt been any evidence of legitimate questions about the vote tally showing that Democrat Joe Biden won the states presidential contest.

The GOP is seeking a court order to postpone Maricopa Countys certification. The certification is expected on Thursday or Friday, ahead of the Nov. 23 deadline for counties to approved election results.

Mohave County officials were scheduled Monday to certify results but instead postponed that vote until Nov. 23. Other counties are pressing ahead with their certifications.

The party is pushing for not only the county supervisors but everyone responsible for certifying and canvassing the election to make sure that all questions are answered so that voters will have confidence in the results of the election, said Zach Henry, a spokesman for the Arizona Republican Party.

The state GOP has filed a legal challenge seeking a new hand-count of a sampling of ballots in Maricopa County and a court order prohibiting the county from certifying election results until its case is decided by a judge.

Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs office said the Republican Partys true intent in filing the case was to delay and undermine the certification of election results.
This case is about delay not the adjudication of good faith claims, Hobbs lawyers said in a court filing.
She also said Wednesday that she and her family have been threatened with violence, including a death threat.

Hobbs spokesperson Sophia Solis said in an email that a threat posted on the Parler social networking site said: Lets burn her house down and kill her family and teach these fraudsters a lesson.

Personal information about Hobbs, including her home address, also was posted on Parler, Solis said.
Hobbs criticized Republicans from President Donald Trump down to Gov. Doug Ducey for failing to halt what she called disinformation.

It is well past time that they stop. Their words and actions have consequences, Hobbs said in a statement. Now, I am calling on other leaders in this state, including the governor whose deafening silence has contributed to the growing unrest, to stand up for the truth.

The GOP lawsuit focuses on an audit of a sampling of ballots that is required to test the accuracy of tabulated results.

Maricopa County has already completed the audit and said no discrepancies were found.
But the state party still wants the sample measured on a precinct level, rather than the audit that was conducted of the countys new vote centers, which let people vote at any location across the county.
Biden won Arizona by 10,000 votes and Maricopa County, the states most populous, put Biden over the top.
The county performed a hand count of a set of ballots the weekend following the election that showed its machine counts were 100% accurate.

Election officials were running routine post-election accuracy tests on the counting machines on Wednesday with observers from both parties in attendance.

Clint Hickman, a Republican who is chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, said in a letter Tuesday to voters that there was no evidence or fraud, misconduct or malfunction in the countys elections.
It is time to dial back the rhetoric, rumors, and false claims, Hickman wrote.

When postponing Mohave Countys certification until Nov. 23, members of the countys Board of Supervisors cited what they said was uncertainty about the fate of election challenges across the country, while still expressing confidence in countys own election process.

Supervisor Ron Gould, who led the effort to postpone the certification, maintains Arizona is still in play politically.

There are lawsuits all over the place on everything, and thats part of the reason why Im in no big hurry to canvass the election, Gould said.

I was going to make this topic about the actual article but fucking Christ. ARIZONA WOULDN'T EVEN FLIP THE ELECTION

These are pretty easy to trace so some cops should be giving some people some nice beatings.

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Conservative ideology is poisonous to a healthy democracy.

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Everyone of any fame whatsoever gets "death threats" all the time. I'm tired of people pretending it's news.

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It's hard for them to turn into what they already have been for years now

deupd_u posted...

Everyone of any fame whatsoever gets "death threats" all the time. I'm tired of people pretending it's news.

That's bull crap and you know it. It's also not even a half decent excuse if it were true, because it doesn't change the fact that there's somebody getting death threats over doing their job in a function that serves the people.

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deupd_u posted...

Everyone of any fame whatsoever gets "death threats" all the time. I'm tired of people pretending it's news.

I live here. There's a lot of crazy trumpers here.

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deupd_u posted...

Everyone of any fame whatsoever gets "death threats" all the time. I'm tired of people pretending it's news.

Trump lost. Get over it.

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pres_madagascar posted...

crazy trumpers

This is just redundant at this point

deupd_u posted...

Everyone of any fame whatsoever gets "death threats" all the time. I'm tired of people pretending it's news.

I'm tried of right wingers downplaying this radical domestic terrorism

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

I'm tried of right wingers downplaying this radical domestic terrorism

But then they have to look at themselves

gunplagirl posted...

It's hard for them to turn into what they already have been for years now

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Literally attempting to circumvent the will of the people.
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harley2280 posted...

Literally attempting to circumvent the will of the people.

Winning at any cost

This is what happens when you support an egomaniacal, megalomaniacal, psychopathic manchild for president.

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They're growing more unhinged by the day.

deupd_u posted...

Everyone of any fame whatsoever gets "death threats" all the time. I'm tired of people pretending it's news.

Don't you have another knife to take a picture of, chicken-legs?

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deupd_u posted...

Everyone of any fame whatsoever gets "death threats" all the time. I'm tired of people pretending it's news.

So you feel the Michigan governor kidnapping plot wasn't news worthy?

Ruvan22 posted...

So you feel the Michigan governor kidnapping plot wasn't news worthy?

Oh that's just one of those pesky govnas