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Originally Posted by driveway
The two Republican board members in Cochise County, Arizona have decided not to certify their election out of protest.
They do not contend that Cochise County had fraud, indeed Cochise went hard for Republicans accross the board: Masters won 54-42%, Lake won 58-40%, and, crucially, in House District 6, Republican Juan Ciscomani beat Democrat Kirsten Engel 67-31%, or by almost 14,000 votes.
If Cochise County does not certify its election, by Arizona law, its ballots are discarded. This will not impact the elections of Hobbs or Kelly, merely will increase their margin of victory, however Ciscomani only beat Engel by about 3000 votes. If Cochise County's ballots are discared, then that seat flips from Republican to Democrat.
Were Hobbs a pure creature of the Party, she could choose not to apply pressure to the board members, which would benefit the Democrats, however as secretary of state it is her obligation to sue these people as:
Of course, ardent conservatives are up-in-arms that Hobbs would sue as this is somehow a conflict of interest, since she won the Governor's race in this "fradulent" election. |
this is some prime 4D chess here. Threaten to disenfranchise a whole county of their perfectly fine votes, claim they were then forced to certify the election and take this as proof that the election was fraudulent, sow further distrust in the whole election process and lay the groundwork for the next election where they will undoubtedly do the same thing again. Unless they win, of course.
but yeah, somehow this will again be the fault of Katie Hobbs and her woke libtards. Flawless logic.