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Fontes blocked from using new rule to certify election results when counties refuse to (apnews.com)

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Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has been blocked from using a new provision of the election procedures manual that would have let him certify election results in the state if a county refuses to sign off on its own results.

In a decision Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi said that under the rule all votes in a given county could be excluded if its officials fail to certify the results. The provision, the judge said, would give Fontes “nearly carte blanche authority to disenfranchise the ballots of potentially millions of Arizona voters.”

Two officials from a largely Republican county in Arizona delayed the certification of midterm election results in 2022, leading the attorney general to bring felony charges against them. Then-Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, now Arizona’s governor, warned that she might have to certify statewide results without numbers from Cochise County if they weren’t received in time, an outcome that would have tipped the balance of several close races.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Surprise surprise, the judge was appointed by Trump.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As opposed to some dipshits getting carte blanche to disenfranchise voters in bad faith because the other candidate won.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I mean if they don't submit the votes on time, proceedings must proceed without them. That is not disenfranchisement by the proceeders, but by the election officials who cannot submit their jurisdiction's ballots on time. Next time the residents of the county can ensure sane and competent people get those roles, if they want their votes counted. Simples.