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7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The recount of Maricopa County’s nearly 2.1 million ballots was ordered by the GOP-led state Senate, despite the fact that county officials, as well as state and federal judges, found no merit to claims the vote was tainted by fraud or other problems. [read post]
6 May 2021, 2:02 pm by Tia Sewell
The Arizona State Senate is holding a private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County, an unprecedented initiative that the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division warned may violate federal law. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Senate used its subpoena power to take possession of all 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County and the machines that counted them. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
GOP Women’s Record-Breaking Success Reflects Party’s Major Shift on Recruiting and Supporting Female Candidates Washington Post – Rachael Bade | Published: 12/7/2020 There are 17 newly elected Republican women who will give the party a record number of female lawmakers in Congress, the results of a successful strategy of recruiting and supporting women running for office. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
It comes after Trump, who has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the election, pledged to get the courts to determine its outcome. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 10:31 am by Benjamin Wittes
In 1933, concerns about the democratic legitimacy of actions taken by departing presidents and congressional representatives, and the incentives driving those actions, led to the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment. [read post]
In addition, counties such as Maricopa County have discretion to allow up to two members of the public to observe the election process. [read post]
When an election yields such results, the secretary of state must first certify the facts requiring the recount to the superior court in Maricopa County. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Record high numbers of people plan to vote by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic, and that group skews heavily Democratic, according to polling. [read post]
Ahead of the Aug. 4 election, however, the state has stepped up with CARES Act funding, and counties such as Maricopa and Pinal have issued detailed plans for safe elections. [read post]
But that policy did not apply to ventilators, and there’s nothing in the public record to confirm that the department actually disbursed PPE proportionate to population size. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 9:00 pm
In Maricopa County, the simple set aside forms that are specifically targeted to the offense are available online at the Superior Courts self-service center along with instructions on how to complete them. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Now, Trump’s own Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all began. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that a 2013 letter he sent to the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) office was not part of any formal FARA filing, so could not be the basis for a charge under a law barring false FARA submissions. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Bennett said he fell short only because some county election officials incorrectly classified some of them as invalid. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 5:16 am by SHG
The records obtained by Judicial Watch show that Warshaw bills Maricopa County an average of $2.7 million annually, which breaks down to $227,000 per month or $7,000 per day. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 11:46 am by Dave Maass
In Arizona, for example, the software project was spearheaded by the Maricopa County District Attorney’s press officer, rather than a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children team. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 5:36 am by Jane Chong, Benjamin Wittes
The country received a strong reminder of the point this weekend, when the Washington Post reported that Trump allegedly asked Attorney General to drop the criminal prosecution of Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who was convicted of criminal contempt last month for flouting the order of a federal judge to stop detaining people he merely suspected of being undocumented immigrants; when the Department refused, Trump decided to pardon him if and when his own… [read post]
22 Aug 2017, 8:45 am
Donald Trump may pardon Arpaio, but he can’t clear his record of brutality and bigotry. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 7:39 am
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery lamented that “[t]he denial of [the] petition for review is a dark day for Arizona’s criminal justice system. [read post]