This is another big win for Kari Lake. Maricopa County tried to get the lawsuit tossed out, but the judge would not cooperate. He did, however, toss out all but one of the defendants. Only Stephen Richter remains because it was his job to make sure that there was an adequate examination of the signatures. The county has refused to allow Lake’s team to examine the mail-in envelopes against the signatures on the registration form.
These records were not provided to Kari Lake and her attorneys before the recent trial by Judge Peter Thompson. Thom0pson threw the case out despite mountains of evidence that proved that the signatures were rubber-stamped by the election workers. Maricopa County Attorney Joe LaRue tried to make the case that the county does not have to turn over the signatures for Lake’s team to examine. LaRue said that the public records law does not apply to voter registration records and ballot affidavit signatures.
There are exemptions to the rules that would allow the signatures to be verified, but LaRue claimed that if -people could see the signatures they would forge them in future elections. That is absurd. Who would want to forge a forged signature? Some of the signatures were not even the same name, let alone a match for the voter.
La Rue later claimed:
“These early ballot affidavit envelopes are public records in the sense that a public official uses these envelopes to do the public officials duty under the law, signature comparison. But the public records law has certain exceptions, and we believe that even if these records do not fit within 16 168(f), they are subject to, at the very least, the best interest of the state exception to the public records law and the privacy exception to the public records law.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELIn response, Judge Hannah told the Defendants, “I am not convinced that the ballot affidavit is a voter registration record. It is a record from which the election officials derive information that becomes part of the voter registration record, but that doesn’t mean the ballot affidavit itself is a voter registration record.” This could exonerate TGP correspondent Jordan Conradson of alleged criminal wrongdoing after leftist hack reporters claimed that he violated the law and called for his arrest after publishing fraudulent voter signatures.
Judge Hannah granted Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss in regards to all Defendants except Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who is responsible for comparing mail-in ballot affidavit signatures. “I’m inclined to think that there might be the need to take some evidence here,” the Judge said. Hannah also indicated he would set a status hearing and asked the attorneys to file a proposed scheduling order for future proceedings on the matter.
Stay tuned, it could get interesting.
