Outside Group Uses Pima GOP as a Stooge to Sue to Allow Loud Megaphones and Fake Police at Voting Locations

In a squeak of disruption, the Pima County Republican Party filed a lawsuit to allow it to set up earsplitting propaganda and let disrupters dress up as police to deter, intimidate, and harass voters.

The stooge plaintiff offered up by the enfeebled party is two-time loser Pima Republican Chair Kathleen Winn. She lost her primary bids in 2022 and 2024 to be the Republican to run for U.S. House against Juan CiscoMAGA.

This frivolous litigation is a pathetic attempt to appear relevant. After all, the Pima GOP offers an online “Am I Republican?” quiz and is urgently selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 handgun to lure attendees to its “Sparkle for Freedom Gala.”

Winn’s frivolous case against the AZ Secretary of State Andrian Fontes is in federal court before Judge Michael Liburdi in Phoenix. But the real perpetrator of the case is the noxious “Oversight Project,” a right-wing revenge group spun off by the Heritage Foundation.

The “Project” has filed 75 lawsuits nationwide against “woke” policies, Biden’s autopen, prosecuting Dr. Anthony Fauci over Covid, and the influence of the Chinese Communist Party.

Neal Cornett, the chief counsel for the “project” in Washington, DC, has been colluding with Pima GOP Chair Winn about Republicans who lost elections, such as Trump in 2020, Abe Hamadeh in 2022, and Heather Lappin for Pima Sheriff in 2024.

Fake cops and amplified sound at your voting place

Their lawsuit seeks to cancel two provisions of the Arizona Elections Procedure Manual that empower poll workers to remove or arrest people who seek to deter, intimidate or harass voters within 75 feet of a polling place.

1. A prohibition against anyone who impersonates a law enforcement officer or is “wearing clothing, uniforms or official-looking apparel intended to deter, intimidate or harass voters.”
2. A prohibition against electioneering that “takes place outside the 75-foot limit if it is audible from a location inside the door to the voting location.”

In other words, the GOP wants to allow agitators to dress up like ICE agents to menace voters inside the 75-foot safe zone and to set up a propaganda rock concert, sound trucks and megaphones just outside the safe zone.

The “project” and the Pima GOP argue it’s their First Amendment right to cause chaos at voting locations. They want to allow phony policemen to ask voters for their papers, and to make a racket louder than leaf blowers and ambulance sirens while they vote.

Interestingly, Republicans vote in person — both on Election Day and early in-person — at higher rates than Democrats, while Democrats use mail and absentee ballots at significantly higher rates. Trump voters were more likely to vote in person on Election Day (38% did).

So, if the Pima GOP and the “project” had their way, the agitators would likely be yelling and intimidating Republicans.

Let’s see how fast Judge Liburdi tosses this lawsuit into the wastebasket.