AZ GOP Chair Who Peddled Trump's Voter Fraud Lies Faces Demand For Audit Of Her Election
By: Cristina Cabrera (TPM)
I used to hate Arizona politics, back in the bad old days of Sheriff Joe.
Now we have an astronaut for senator! How cool is that?
And the clown show at the state GOP is a source for endless hilarity!
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Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kelli Ward acknowledges supporters as she arrives
to give her concession speech at an election night event on August 28, 2018
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Recently reelected Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward , who enthusiastically boosted ex-President Donald Trump's bogus "Stop the Steal" scheme and tried to overturn Joe Biden's victory in her state, now finds her own election results being called into question.
Sergio Arellano, one of Ward's challengers who lost by a razor-thin margin of 42 votes in the election on Saturday, is pushing for an audit of the results after a candidate for Arizona's 8th Congressional District's member-at-large committee, who was initially declared the winner of her race, was later told that she had lost after an error was detected.
Arellano stated in a Facebook post early Thursday morning that his request was about ensuring "election integrity," not undoing the race results.
"I fully expect any audit to confirm the results that were announced at the State Meeting," he said.
However, the error in the district race "created an environment where a number of state committeemen are raising concerns and asking me to ask for an audit because only a candidate for party office can do so," the former candidate added.
Kim Owens, Arellano's spokesperson, told AZ Central that "[w]ith the absence of the tapes from the machines or any documentation of where votes came from, and in most races, a lack of numbers, of tallies, we need to see evidence that everything is as it should be."
The state party did not respond to TPM's request for comment.
Ward was one of Trump's most loyal foot soldiers in his crusade against the 2020 election results. The GOP leader regularly parroted false claims alleging "abnormalities" in the race and attempted to bring a bogus lawsuit in front of the Supreme Court that aimed to throw out ballots.
The Arizona GOP has gone hard for Trump under Ward's leadership to the point where its Twitter account asked if supporters were willing to "die" for the then-president amid his effort to overturn the election.
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Among the Republican who have recently been censured by the Arizona Republican Party for insufficient abasement before the Lord Donald, is Governor Doug Doucey.
Yup... that Doug Doucey... The one who cost hundreds of Arizonan lives by refusing to mandate masks, following the example of Lord Donald. But then... the evil Doug refused to overturn the results of the Presidential election. Governor Doucey committed an unpardonable sin! He put the law above Lord Donald!
For the unpardonable crime of loyalty to the law rather than to Lord Donald... the evil Doucey was censured...
It would be the greatest irony, but not in the least bit surprising, if it is proven that her election was fraudulent.
I would love to see them finding that she really lost the election. KARMA
They demanded a recount and now it will be on her.