Howard Fischer reports, Lawsuit seeks to ban ballot-counting machines in Arizona: Two Trump-endosed election denier Republicans seeking statewide office are asking a federal judge [United States District Court for the District of Arizona] to block the use of machines to tabulate the votes in Arizona in the 2022 election. The machines are unreliable because they … Read more
Axios reports Lawmakers met with Meadows on election schemes, ex-aide testifies: A former aide to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows testified to the Jan. 6 Select Committee that Meadows met with several right-wing House members in December to discuss efforts to overturn the election, a new court filing reveals. The committee filed a … Read more
Ths decision will be appealed. This is not the last word. Howard Fischer reports, Ruling: 3 Arizona candidates can stay on ballot: A judge will not bar three officials who allegedly were involved in some way in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from running again for office in Arizona. In a 19-page ruling [not yet … Read more
The New York Times previews a new book being released May 3 from Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden Ad The Battle For America’s Future.” After this reporting was first published, Republicans, in particular “Traitor” Kevin McCarthy, were quick to issue flat denials of statements attributed to them, playing Trump’s … Read more
Ted Simons of Arizona Horizon (PBS) moderates an “informal” debate for Arizona’s Citizens Clean Elections for the pro-democracy Democratic candidates for Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, the former County Recorder for Maricopa County, and Rep. Reginald Bolding, the current Democratic house minority leader. The video is at the link below, I cannot embed it in the … Read more