Maricopa County officials and Runbeck, the company the MCC supervisors hired to count the votes in the county are being sued once again by Kari Lake and her team of lawyers for refusing to comply with public record requests. Those records could prove that nearly 36,000 votes were injected into the vote counts, or about double the difference between Lake and Katie Hobbs. Bryan Blehm, an attorney for We The People AZ Alliance, on Monday, filed a Special Action Complaint against Runbeck Election Services and Maricopa County for public records.
Roughly 81% of the 1,311,734 Maricopa County 2022 election voters sent their ballots in by mail. Their ballots were sent to Runbeck for signature identification and to count the ballots, but according to the chain of custody documents 35,563 more ballots were returned than were sent there. They should have separated the male ballots from the female ballots because obviously, they procreated rapidly there. Both Maricopa and Runbeck have refused legal public record requests.
The Arizona Supreme Court issued a ruling in Kari Lake’s lawsuit, and Judge Thompson must review the complaint about signature matches. But, the judge went a little further and said that other items dismissed from the original suit could be revived, depending on the evidence. If he was serious, this could open another door or two that can explain how you go from a twelve-point lead in the polls to losing the election. There is no doubt that several plans were put into play during the election in 2022.
We The People AZ Alliance are requesting the “exterior video of all loading dock locations, which would show all vehicles bringing the votes to Runbeck and returning to Maricopa County. Runbeck is not a disinterested party as 100% of all of their political donations have gone to Democratic candidates or liberal causes. Normally, that information cannot be required to produce public records, however, they are legal custodians of the votes, and that negates their right to privacy in this case.
However, Runbeck, despite being a private company, is the custodian of these records and must comply with Arizona’s Public Records Law based on established case law in the Arizona Court of Appeals during a lawsuit by Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. against Cyber Ninjas and the Arizona Senate during the 2020 Election Audit. Therefore, We The People AZ Alliance can sue Runbeck and Maricopa County under the same pretenses that Cyber Ninjas was sued for denying a public records request.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELFrom the Arizona Court of Appeals:
To the extent Cyber Ninjas is in sole possession of audit- related public records because of its contract with the Senate, Cyber Ninjas has become the custodian of those records under [Arizona’s Public Records Law] the PRL. And as to those records, Cyber Ninjas has assumed the obligations the PRL assigns to a “custodian” of public records. Under the PRL, a person seeking publicrecords must make its request to the “custodian” of the records. A.R.S. § 39-121.01(D)(1). “Access to a public record is deemed denied if a custodian fails to promptly respond to a request for production of a public record.” A.R.S. § 39-121.01(E).
From Bryan Blehm’s letter threatening legal action and the new lawsuit against Maricopa County and Runbeck collectively:
To the extent [Runbeck] is in sole possession of [election]-related public records because of its contract with [Maricopa County], [Runbeck] has become the custodian of those records under the PRL. And as to those records, [Runbeck] has assumed the obligations the PRL assigns to a “custodian” of public records. Under the PRL, a person seeking public records must make its request to the “custodian” of the records. A.R.S. § 39-121.01 (D)(1). “Access to a public record is deemed denied if a custodian fails to promptly respond to a request for production of a public record.” A.R.S. § 39-121.01(E).
