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Started 11/11/21 by WALTER784; 193972 views.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-1
Legal analysis tears apart court that dismissed election lawsuit in Arizona despite obvious corruption
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
by: JD Heyes
(Natural News) A legal expert has slammed an Arizona court’s decision to toss out a lawsuit challenging the manner in which the November election was conducted in the state, while going on to praise a challenge filed by GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
Tom Renz, an Ohio-based attorney and civic commentator, blasted the Arizona court’s decision to toss out a suit filed by Mark Finchem, a Republican who ran for Arizona secretary of state, describing the reasons for the dismissal as absurd, especially in the face of what he believes is obvious corruption.
“What I did not expect to find was corruption on a level that seemed to verify the outrage many people expressed after 2020. If the corruption of 2020 was as bad as the 2022 Arizona election people should have been outraged. Further, if the courts did anything similar to what was done with the Finchem dismissal it is not a surprise that people were claiming that there are issues with the courts,” Renz noted in his assessment of the court’s decision.
“As for the case, the dismissal was, or should have been, an absolute embarrassment for this judge to publish and frankly ought to be appealed to prevent a miscarriage of justice. I would need to write a book to cover all the mistakes in this ruling,” he noted further.
Renz said that in his interpretation of the judge’s ruling, the court appears to suggest that “Finchem’s team must prove fraud in their pleadings to move past a motion to dismiss,” which he called “absolutely absurd,” citing Arizona’s own Rules of Civil Procedure. What’s more, he notes that the court’s dismissal relied on old Arizona statutes that were rendered moot in 2020 when the state legislature passed several election reform measures.
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“The cases the Judge cited were published in 1986 and 1929. When a law is passed subsequent to a case ruling like those, it overturns those rulings if they are in dispute,” he noted.
Furthermore, Renz noted that all evidence presented in a complaint must be considered true “if well-pled,” and it appeared as though the Arizona court did not see the complaint in that way.
“The Court apparently also has no issues with possible violation of campaign finance laws as well as what could constitute a RICO and conspiracy charge by an elected official using their office to push or collude with a private company to block advertising by a political opponent in a race she was running in,” he wrote, adding:
I will not pain you with the absolute garbage the Court attempts to use to explain away what I simply cannot fathom being anything but misconduct. Throughout there is continued reference to the standards laid out in the previously mentioned cases that were overruled by statute but why let the law get in the way of the desired outcome. In each of these absurd decisions about the application of the facts alleged to the law regarding misconduct (which should not have occurred until trial – AFTER discovery) the Court applies the wrong legal standard. The proper standard according to the statute is “misconduct” not “gross misconduct.”
“What happened in Arizona and particularly in Maricopa County during the 2022 election was indisputably unacceptable. The real question is, was it intentional and/or did it rise to the level of misconduct or violate some other aspect of the law,” Renz noted as he began to wrap up his assessment.
“The legislature has spoken and did not require fraud be proven in a complaint for a case to move forward. The rules of civil procedure, applicable case law, and common sense all dictate that this case should have moved ahead,” he added.
“Frankly, if the people alleged to have done wrong in this case truly did not do anything nefarious then I would think they would want a full and transparent investigation of what occurred by in independent court so they could demonstrate once and for all that the “election deniers” are crazy… unless they do have something to hide,” he said.
It should also be noted that a separate Arizona court has accepted GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit, and it will now move to trial, so there is an excellent chance the corrupt election practices in that state will be exposed.
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From: Showtalk
Jan-1
If nothing else, the complainant should have time in court to present evidence and plead their case.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-1
HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Kari Lake Files Appeal In Lawsuit To Overturn Maricopa County 2022 Election
By Jordan Conradson
Published December 31, 2022 at 5:20pm
Kari Lake filed a Petition for Special Action in the Arizona Court of Appeals last night in her 2022 Election lawsuit to set aside the Maricopa County General Election, arguing the trial court dismissed “explosive findings.”
The Gateway Pundit reported on the trial that was heard in the Maricopa County Superior Court by Judge Peter Thompson last week.
As we reported, Judge Peter Thompson dismissed the lawsuit last Saturday, Christmas Eve, despite the clear and convincing evidence presented by Lake’s attorneys of massive voter disenfranchisement targeting Republicans and obviously false testimony by elections officials.
Prior to the trial, Thompson dismissed all counts of the lawsuit except for Count II and Count IV, regarding the massive failure of ballot-on-demand printers and tabulators on election day and the major chain of custody issues that could overturn the election.
Eight of ten counts alleging violation of freedom of speech ahead of the election, fraudulent signatures on mail-in ballot affidavits, discrimination against Republican voters, due process violation, unconstitutional mail-in ballot procedure, and improper certification were dismissed before trial.
The two-day trial featured testimony from expert witnesses and Maricopa County officials.
Katie Hobbs is scheduled to be sworn in on Monday “notwithstanding the significant and important legal errors underpinning the trial court’s decision dismissing all but two claims as a matter of law and deciding the remaining two claims under a legally defective standard of review,” states the filing.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the explosive findings during Lake’s trial.
On Election Day in Maricopa County, over 50% of tabulators and printers failed the moment that polls opened, causing voters to be turned away from the polls and creating long wait times of four hours or more. This was caused by a printer setting that was changed on election day, which printed 19-inch ballot images on 20-inch ballot paper.
According to cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh’s testimony, this was an intentional act aimed at disenfranchising Republican voters who turned out 3:1 for Trump-Endorsed candidates.
Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett testified at least four times on Day one of the trial that 19-inch ballot images were not printed onto 20-inch ballot papers, and he had “no knowledge” of this occurring.
The next day, Jarrett changed his testimony to state that he learned of a fit-to-paper issue “a few days after Election Day” that printed “a slightly smaller image of a 20-inch image on a 20-inch paper ballot.”
The petition states, “Jarrett testified that Maricopa’s tabulators were configured to only read a 20 inch ballot image in the 2022 general election. Appx:148-51 (id., 51:13- 54:1-8). Any other sized ballot image could not be read by a tabulator and would be rejected. Appx:152 (id., 55:2-10). Jarrett testified at least four times that he did not know of, nor did he hear of, a 19 inch ballot image projected onto 20 inch paper in the 2022 general election.”
Additionally, the petition claims that the trial court misrepresented witness testimony by Heather Honey regarding the chain of custody failures that rendered nearly 300,000 ballots invalid. This testimony was also corroborated by a Runbeck Election Services Whistleblower, who testified that Runbeck received 298,942 ballots on Election Day, which includes the EV ballots. The required chain of custody for these ballots does not exist.
“The trial court held that Plaintiff’s witness, Heather Honey, who testified for Plaintiff regarding Maricopa’s ballot CoC failures, ‘admit[ted] that Defendants did in fact generate the documents they were required to, and otherwise affirms the County’s compliance with election processes.’ December 24, 2022 Ruling at 5-6. Honey did no such thing. Further, the trial court ignored the admissions by Maricopa officials discussed in Statement of Facts, Section C, showing they clearly violated Arizona CoC laws set forth the EPM and A.R.S. §16-621(E). Honey never admitted that Maricopa officials generated required CoC documents for EDDB ballots delivered on Election Day. In fact, she testified Maricopa did not produce these forms (“Delivery Receipts”) for the nearly 300,000 EDDB ballots,” states the petition.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-1
Showtalk said...
Lake deserved a hearing. Will she find a judge who allows it?
With all the visible voter fraud and disenfranchised people who turned up to vote but couldn't, the judge should be impeached for obstruction of confirmation of an election and interfering in a valid election investigation.
FWIW
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From: WALTER784
Jan-1
don5328 said...
It won't be easy.
No, but it's easier than accepting that they're allowed to steal her seat in the election.
FWIW
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From: WALTER784
Jan-2
Many people do, including a lot of Arizonians... most of them are fed up with Katie Hobbs to boot.
Kari Lake had the majority of votes in her favor until everything stopped working properly.
She should have won and she's going to continue to press the issue.
The people in Arizona want fair elections. They've seen unfair elections both in 2020 and 2022 and are fed up with it.
She has a good case, and she'll probably take it up to SCOTUS level if required.
FWIW
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From: WALTER784
Jan-2
Two Florida Men Convicted and Sentenced to Jail Time for Fraudulently Registering Voters and Forging Their Signatures
By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published December 22, 2022 at 5:40pm
Two Florida men are going to jail for fraudulently registering voters and forging their signatures.
The men were registering dead people to vote in Duval County and forging names on voter registration forms and petitions for Constitutional amendments in 2020.
Devin King, 32, pleaded guilty to criminal use of personal identification in November. He has now been sentenced to a year in jail and probation after his release.
King’s co-defendant Jordan Daniels, 35, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to 10 months in jail followed by 14 months of probation. He has additionally been ordered to pay approximately $2,000 in fines and do 100 hours of community service, according to a report from News4Jax.
The local station reports, “According to Daniels’ November 2021 arrest report, Duval County elections officials noticed ‘a large number’ of voter registration forms turned in through a third party last summer that seemed suspicious. The report cited signatures that did not match, personal information that was wrong, and forms that normally arrived worn looking ‘pristine.'”
“An investigation traced the forms to Daniels and King. Both were arrested in November 2021. Investigators said 10 of the people they tried to register to vote were dead,” the report added.
The State Attorney’s Office believes that the two men were driven by financial gain, not by political beliefs.
“The discovery of these attempts at fraud shows that the system here in Duval County and all of Florida is secure and trustworthy. Voters can have confidence that their information is secure and will be counted accurately,” Duval County Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan told News4JAX last year.
Breitbart News noted that “the voter fraud convictions were partially the result of research released last year by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), which detailed how election crime cases were piling up despite county election officials having referred the cases to state prosecutors.”
“As a result of our research, it appears these two men were arrested for election crimes,” PILF President J. Christian Adams said in a statement.
“We handed this report to state officials to increase pressure on state prosecutors to address this and other election crime referrals,” Adams continued. “Since this report, Governor Ron DeSantis has implemented a state election crimes unit, making Florida’s election significantly more secure. He deserves credit for the steps he has taken to fight election crimes in Florida.”
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