Friday, February 11, 2022

Set Aside & Decertify! AZ's Mark Finchem introduces resolution to decertify 3 2020 AZ county elections

Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem introduced a resolution to set aside and decertify the Nov 2020 election results in three Arizona counties.
 
The resolution, HCR 2033 (HERE) calls on Maricopa, Pima and Yuma counties to set aside their election results "based on clear and convincing evidence that the elections in those counties were irredeemably compromised".
 
One bit of evidence among the whereas clauses on pages 1 and 2 of the resolution reads as follows (emphasis mine):

"Whereas, the Arizona Election Code requires that all persons voting in an election must be registered to vote twenty-nine days before an election by law, and voter registration was extended by the federal judiciary to October 23 in direct conflict with A.R.S. section 16-101,1 subsection A, paragraph 3, a violation of the separation of powers;"
and ironically coincides EXACTLY what Arizona's Rep. Andy Biggs asked the entire U.S. House of Representatives to consider during his January 6, 2021 objections to Arizona electoral votes at the 23:49 minute mark of this CSPAN video.


 

"Arizona also establishes deadlines for voter registration. The deadline has been in place for 30 years."
 
"THIS year the voter registration deadline was October 5. Early voting commenced two days later."

"Five days before the deadline, a group filed a lawsuit demanding that an Arizona election officials does not have to enforce the deadline."
 
"The Federal District court said that other states have a deadline later than Arizona and some allow for registration and that Arizona's new deadline would be the time HE chose, not the legislators."

"The appellate court noted that the Arizona deadline established by the state legislature was sound and appropriate and compiled with the Constitution. But the appellate court merely shortened the extension, bypassing of the deadline to 10 days. The appellate court, without legal justification, also decided that everyone who registered after the legal deadline, but before the deadline created by judicial fiat could still vote."
 
Bottom line: in a violation of separation of powers the judiciary unilaterally changed a voter registration law aka deadline that had been in place for THIRTY years.
 
Mark Finchem's resolution summarizes this and other justifications that give complete legitimacy to Biggs' objection cited above.  

County Examiner recently reported on the reemergence of a January 4, 2021 letter sent to all Republican members of Congress from the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania also asking to support objections to the electoral college votes and delay certification of the November 2020 election results.