Last Friday, county commissioners in Maricopa County, Arizona, fought a subpoena issued by the state Senate Judiciary Committee and refused to turn over their voting machines for a forensic audit. In response, the state Senate took them to court on Monday, Dec. 21. On the same day, all Republican Electoral College members in the state also announced they were joining the fray, filing motions to demand the county enforce the subpoenas and uphold election integrity.
On December 19, more than 2,000 people attended the “Stop Voter Theft, Support President Trump” rally in front of the Arizona state capital.
Back on Dec. 14, the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee held a fraud hearing on the 2020 election that took more than six hours. The chairman of the committee found evidence of election fraud and subsequently issued a subpoena for Maricopa County to conduct a forensic audit of the county’s Dominion voting machine software and ballots, but the county, with a 4-1 vote refused to comply with the subpoena request.
In the indictment, the state Senate said that, as the sovereign legislative body of Arizona, the Legislature is vested with broad authority to issue injunctions in furtherance of its investigations. The supervisor of any house of the legislature or the chairman of any committee may issue a subpoena to any person for testimony or production of documents and records.
The indictment also states that pursuant to this authority, the plaintiffs (the State Senate as well as the Judiciary Committee) have issued and served two subpoenas in writing on Maricopa County to produce certain equipment and electronic records for review in connection with the voting and tabulation of votes in the November 3, 2020 general election, and have been denied.
Accordingly, to ensure the County’s compliance with valid legislative subpoenas lawfully issued, Plaintiffs seek a ruling from the Court compelling the County to comply with the Legislative subpoena requests.
Sonny Borrelli, Arizona Senate Majority Whip and member of the state Judiciary Committee, said in a recent interview with The Epoch Times that the state legislature had good reason to require a forensic audit of Maricopa County’s voting system. In fact, the legislature was giving the county a chance to confirm that it was a fair and honest election and not a corrupt one, but the county set out to suppress the evidence.
Burrilli questioned, “If the election was honest, why challenge the legislature’s subpoena. What are they hiding? That being the case, he said, “The battle is on (Game on) …… we will fight it and will do everything we can to fight it with all our might.
On Dec. 21, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said his team could confirm election fraud, but officials in the swing states in question refused to allow Trump’s team to inspect voting machines directly. Earlier, he also said in response to Maricopa County’s refusal to enforce subpoenas that voting machines do not store voters’ medical personal information and illegal information, and that the reason they resist public inspection is precisely an indication of improper insider behavior.
11 Electoral College Members Launch Motion
On the same day that the state Senate filed its lawsuit, 11 Trump Electoral College members in Arizona also announced a collective motion to intervene in the Maricopa County matter to ensure that the state legislature has access to all the information it needs to conduct a full audit of the election.
By doing so, we intervene in the lawsuit that the county commission is moving forward with, and they want to invalidate the subpoena,” said Rep. Anthony Kern, R-Arizona’s 20th Congressional District, one of the Trump Electoral College members. Think about it, what would make an elected official decide not to enforce a subpoena from the legislature? It’s time for us to step up to the plate.
Arizona Rep. Anthony Kern (D) called for the need for a fair election.
“All 11 members of the Electoral College, we are united in our fight back to ensure the complete fairness of our elections. We just want the truth to come out, to check the voting machines and see the evidence,” he said.
According to Cohen, a Democratic lawyer has already filed a state bar complaint against Republican lawyers involved in the lawsuit. “(The left) even wants to put forward a proposal to have a vicious monopoly on this case, which I think is ridiculous, and they will use the state bar for their own political purposes.
But no matter the suppression, he said, there are at least 74 million people who believe the election was stolen. “We just need to insist that the voters want fairness, all the voters want transparency, is that really too much to ask? Why this pushback? What are they hiding? What’s really going on? The only way to resolve everything is to comply with this subpoena (from the state Senate), and that’s what our motion to intervene is about.
Since the inside story of election fraud has continued to come out, lawsuits have been filed from top to bottom in Arizona demanding fair elections. Cohen said that if the election had not been fraudulent, there would have been no need for lawsuits to be filed from all walks of life. It’s not about whether Trump won or Biden won, it’s about the fairness of the American election. If we don’t get the ballots straight, what are we left with?
Cohen, himself an elected official, said bluntly, “One thing that disgusts me about what the left is doing is that they’re just stalling. They hope that if they drag it out, this will all be left on the sidelines …… but it’s ridiculous, elected officials don’t abide by the will of the people, and it’s time to put an end to this.
Alexander Kolodin, the attorney representing the filing of the motion, said that the county’s actions throughout the matter, including voting against enforcing the subpoena request and even challenging the state legislature to file a complaint with the state high court in order to invalidate the subpoena, were highly perverse.
Most importantly, he noted, the county used the excuse of providing voting information and evidence to the legislature to deny the Republican Voters Caucus’ request for review on the one hand, but then denied the legislature when it formally issued subpoenas to review the voting system. “So they’re being tongue-in-cheek and, in my view, devious.
Kolodin said the current Senate lawsuit is proceeding at the same time as the Republican Electoral College motion, and the court will likely consolidate the two cases into one.
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