November 18, 2020
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Tuesday, a judge said he has yet to be convinced that the rights of Maricopa County voters are being protected in the audit being conducted at the demand of the state Senate.
The attorney for the Arizona Republican Party is telling a judge that he is treading on First Amendment rights if he imposes sanctions on his client for bringing what the judge called a "meritless" lawsuit over the just-completed election.
Late Tuesday, the state's high court threw out a bid by the head of the state Republican Party to void the results of the presidential race.
A court-ordered inspection of more than 1,600 ballots cast in the general election found just nine with errors in the presidential race -- not enough even if the error rate ran through all similar ballots to declare Donald Trump the victor here.
Top officials of the 15 Republican county committees want a special session -- and soon -- to order an audit of the machinery used to count ballots.