Posted on 10/29/2023 10:22:23 AM PDT by John Semmens
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club (AFEC) has filed a lawsuit challenging the state's use of drop boxes that are not monitored by election workers. AFEC President Scott Mussi argued that "Arizona law requires that ballot boxes be located in secure places to ensure that ballot box stuffing doesn't distort the one-person-one-vote standard. So-called 'drop boxes' for ballots that are placed on the sidewalk invite ballot box stuffing."
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes pointed out that "the current Election Procedures Manual (EPM), created in 2019 by the former secretary of state and now-Gov. Katie Hobbs, specifically amended state law to permit election office employees to place these ballot collection boxes wherever they wanted. The objective is to make voting as convenient as possible. The signature verification process is what prevents ineligible votes from being cast and counted."
Mussi observed that "neither the secretary of state nor the governor has the authority to 'amend' state law by executive fiat. In the 2022 election the signature verification process was too rushed and polluted by Fontes' notion that 'other documents not containing the voter's signature can be used to meet the signature verification requirement.' Election integrity requires that all eligible votes and only eligible votes be counted. Otherwise, we won't have a democratically elected government."
Fontes rebutted Mussi, saying "since Hobbs won in 2022 we actually do have an elected Democratic government. AFEC's suit should be thrown out for being moot."
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Maybe they should protest that a company, Runbeck, is doing the counting.
Let's not kid ourselves...
Scott Mussi is great!
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