Posted on 01/02/2023 12:46:52 PM PST by bitt
The judge presiding over Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge dismissed the case Dec. 23 without knowing that Pinal County would admit a few days later to mishandling hundreds of ballots that contained votes in the Attorney General race.
Instead, numerous Pinal County officials –including the board of supervisors, County Attorney Kent Volkmer, and two elections directors– kept the substantive information from Mohave County Judge Lee Jantzen, the candidates, and voters across the state.
Read more by Terri Jo Neff >> It is the latest in a series of questionable decisions related to Pinal County’s elections. In August, then-Elections Director David Frisk lost his job after a botched Primary Election.
Days later, County Recorder Virginia Ross resigned to temporarily take over the beleaguered and understaffed elections department. Her four-month contract the county approved for Ross included $175,000 in salary and the potential for an additional $25,000 if the General Election ran smoothly.
Roll, an attorney who previously worked for Volkmer, recently became elections director when Ross departed.
District 5 Supervisor Jeff Serdy takes over as Pinal County’s board chairman on Sunday. He told Arizona Daily Independent he and others were “unsure of what we could and couldn’t talk about” related to the county’s election problems once a statutory recount for the AG and Superintendent of Public Instruction races was ordered in early December.
Serdy’s first board meeting as chairman on Jan. 3 will include a discussion of the 2022 election cycle. The agenda notes this will include follow-up by staff about what happened as well as issues moving forward.
“We’re going to be an open book,” Serdy said, adding it is very frustrating to see voters have doubt in the county’s efforts.
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“It’s very frustrating that the proles know that the “elections” are rigged,” Serdy said.
The corruption and incompetence in Arizona runs deep and wide.
Like the good little commies, they are.
Not just AZ.
Folks in every state in the nation ought to take a good look at who’s in charge of inspecting their voting machines...
Let’s pretend that these people acted in good faith and did not willfully distort the election.
They still have an absurdly poor operation control of the election process, and it seems cannot actually prove either candidate won, or would have won, under the law.
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