Abe Election Contest | Unverified Early Affidavit Signatures 9/n
Abe Election Contest | Registration Errors 10/n
Abe Election Contest | COUNT I (Maricopa only): Erroneous Count of Votes and Election Board Misconduct: Wrongful Disqualification of Provisional & Early Ballots 1/n
Abe Election Contest | COUNT I (Maricopa only)
(cont) 2/n
Abe Election Contest | Count II (Maricopa only): Erroneous Count of Votes and Election Board Misconduct: Wrongful Exclusion of Provisional Voters 1/n
As in the initial lawsuit, the very first sentence of the Complaint makes clear that Abe is not alleging fraud, manipulation, or other intentional wrongdoing.
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1/21
This is not a 2020 style “Dominion-controlled-the-voting-machines“ case. No one has to prove the machines were configured to switch votes, or that they were connected to the Internet, or indeed, prove any manipulation of results out of fraud. They don’t have to.
2/21
This case is all about the "competence failures" of election officials – primarily in Maricopa – that resulted in the unlawful denial of the franchise to a material number of voters.
For this reason, the framing is purely around administrative misconduct -
3/21
As Abe's complaint points out - only hours after Gates tells voters to "stay where you are and wait for a tabulator to come online" - his attorneys were "vociferously" opposing the RNC emergency action to extend voting hours.
Abe’s Complaint doesn't speculate, but fact that the county opposed extending the polling hours to address a problem over which the county had control tells me that the county was not acting with the "due and reasonable care" required of election administrators
2/8
A few extra hours to let people “stay where you are and wait for a tabulator to come online” would have been a reasonable accommodation.
But no.
The county did not want to admit to even the smallest possibility that they had a serious problem on Election Day
3/8
Astonishingly, Maricopa Board of Sups has NO plans to meet and confer until Nov 14, despite becoming a laughingstock in last 2 days.
Likelihood they are discussing the issues right now - on burner phones and apps - without calling a public meeting?
OML violations? 🧵 1/6
Get this - the last time Board met to discuss the upcoming election was 10/31 - but they used cover of legal advice exception to Open Meeting Law...
so you will NEVER know what they discussed...unless the @arizonaago investigates to compel disclosure 2/6
Why the closed door meeting to discuss "board authority" and "statutory compliance" with Scott Jarrett - your director of elections - outside law firm Polsinelli and @marcoattorney lawyers?
What advice was board seeking that it could not discuss in public? 3/6
2/ UA Professor Plemons - an anthropologist - studies the "politics and practice of transgender medicine" and is the "curator" of the sex series
She wants participants and viewers to think about "educational policy"
3/ Prof Kornstein (pictured) discusses his "research" into queer play and the "frontier" of children's story hours
+ how drag "disrupts binaries of truth" and thereby undermines everything you have taught your child that is now preparing to drain your savings built over decades
OML Update | AG issues new Open Meeting Law opinion clarifying that public bodies cannot prohibit individual board members from responding to public comments
(after call to public has ended and subject to limitations) azag.gov/opinions/i22-0…
Rep Kavanagh submitted the question - I wish I knew the backstory because the statute is so clear on this point that I can't help but think he has a constituent who should be reading alegalprocess.substack.com
Short answer:
* Right to respond to public comment is an individual right of the board member
* Board can't override that individual's right by flat-out prohibiting member from responding