And now a word from the individual claiming to be the Arizona Attorney General.
PHOENIX, AZ Friday, August 11, 2023— In a letter sent earlier today, Attorney General Mayes advised Arizona’s fifteen county attorneys that despite the assertions made by a group of legislators, Arizona statutes do not give counties the authority to count all ballots manually instead of using automatic tabulating equipment.
“A group of legislators has apparently traveled the state advising county boards of supervisors that Senate Concurrent Resolution 1037 provides a basis for counties to count all ballots manually instead of by automatic tabulating equipment – that is flat wrong,” said Attorney General Mayes. “SCR 1037 is merely a resolution, not a bill, and it has no force of law. Any suggestion that this resolution is legally binding because of the Legislature’s ‘plenary authority’ is also wrong. In most instances, counting ballots manually instead of using tabulating equipment is impracticable, would significantly increase costs, and harm the timeliness and accuracy of results.”1
This is an AG Opinion, which carries the weight of law —just as the Legislature would assert that an SCR citing the U.S. Constitution— which, will most certainly be challenged. Then there is the letter that she sent to all County Boards of Supervisors, essentially threatening them that if they dare to engage in hand counting of ballots they will be in big trouble.2 The radical left evidence deniers is terrified of the truth getting in front of the people of Arizona, and indeed the entire nation.
Impracticable
Websters Dictionary defines impracticable as “not practicable : incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed or at command.”3 In fact the AAG (alleged attorney general) writes in her letter to Arizona County Boards of Supervisors, “Title 16 of the Arizona Revised Statutes provides that ballots shall be counted by “automatic tabulating equipment.” See, e.g., A.R.S. §§ 16-449, 16-602, 16-621, 16-622. The officer in charge of elections may direct that ballots “be counted manually” only if “it becomes impracticable to count all or a part of the ballots with tabulating equipment.” A.R.S. § 16- 621(C). But wait, machines are in use in all Arizona counties, so we must not forget the great tabulator crash of 2022 in Maricopa County.
Over 50% of the black box ballot tabulation machines used in Maricopa County for the 2022 election malfunctioned. Moreover, the AG asserts that verifying the paper ballots against the machine report must not be allowed. Seriously? A major failure of the very machines that she claims the law demands, and there are several systemic issues, makes the use of the machines by common definition, impracticable.
Add to the failure to tabulate mess, the use of uncertified software on Dominion machines (as reported in my last substack post), the secret testing of those machines after the public observation of testing, and the woodpecker like, rapid-fire “signature comparison” that was no comparison at all, and we have the perfect t storm for distrust. Distrust enters the picture when arrogant public office holders and appointed bureaucrats are insulated by the power of their office and a court system that is visibly either incompetent or corrupt or both.
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