Arizona Republican Party Chairman Kelli Ward announced Friday (11) that a lawsuit filed by the state’s Republicans over election fraud will go to the Supreme Court. Ward stressed that they had already found evidence, but local authorities quickly hid the evidence, leaving them too late to discover more.
If the appeal is accepted, the case will become the third fraud case in the 2020 presidential election before the U.S. Supreme Court, Ward said in his announcement Friday, according to Breitbart News, a conservative U.S. media outlet.
Ward explained that they appealed the case to the Supreme Court because the state did not follow proper procedures. She said, “In our view, the lack of due process is unconstitutional and it’s time for a case to be brought, for discovery and for a holistic hearing to be held.”
Ward said the judge set an unrealistic deadline, effectively giving the plaintiffs only three days to examine up to 3 million ballots, and that was impossible to accomplish. She noted that everyone knows choosing the next president is an important matter, but it’s unreasonable that Republicans don’t have enough time to do all the work that needs to be done.
The media always likes to say, ‘Show us the evidence,'” she said. We find the evidence, but then we don’t have enough time to find more evidence because they hide it.” She criticized Democrats for not caring about accountability, transparency or the integrity of elections.
According to public information, on Nov. 30 of this year, a court in Maricopa County, Arizona, announced that it would allow the state’s Republicans to examine signatures on sample mail-in ballot envelopes in order to verify that the state had not committed fraud in the general election. But the court authorized only 200 ballot signatures to be examined by the Republicans who filed the lawsuit. Ward argued that the sample size was too small to tell the story, and she asked for a larger number of ballots to be audited. However, after the Republicans examined just over 1,000 mail-in ballots, local authorities hastily sealed all the ballots and prevented them from continuing to examine them.
The Arizona Supreme Court later dismissed Ward’s (R) lawsuit on the grounds that the 1,626 duplicate ballot samples provided by the plaintiffs did not establish a local risk of large-scale fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the election. Ward and the other plaintiffs argued that the underlying reason for the insufficient amount of evidence was that local authorities did not give them enough time to examine more ballots and they were too late to discover more evidence, so they decided, instead, to take the case to the federal Supreme Court.
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