By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Repercussions about the accuracy of the results of the 2022 Arizona general election continue, with Republican attorney general nominee Abe Hamadeh reportedly expected to hear a decision from the Arizona Supreme Court by the end of August.
Hamadeh supposedly lost the attorney general race to radical-left Democrat Kris Mayes by fewer than 300 ballots out of more than 2.5 million cast.
Rather than pursuing a modest program due to the closeness of the announced result, Mayes plunged ahead with her radical views, including vowing not to enforce existing Arizona abortion laws and even quickly issuing a news release to say she wouldn’t abide by a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the First Amendment from Colorado that she disagreed with.
As an unauthorized power grab, left-wing pro-abortion extremist Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs earlier had announced that she was transferring enforcement of state abortion laws from county attorneys to Mayes.
In an August 7 interview with host James T. Harris on Phoenix’s KFYI (550 AM) news-talk radio, reporter Terri Jo Neff of the online Arizona Daily Independent reviewed Hamadeh’s case.
Neff’s article posted August 6 at the Daily Independent, “AZ Supreme Court Wants More Briefings In Hamadeh v. Mayes Case,” said that State Supreme Court Justice Kathryn King issued an order giving Mayes until August 11 to reply to Hamadeh’s motion seeking a new trial on the evidence.
After that, Neff wrote, Hamadeh’s legal team had until August 16 to reply to Mayes, after which the High Court would consider whether to grant his petition for its special action at this time, rather than going to the Arizona Appeals Court.
Hamadeh’s case had been prolonged for months by a Superior Court judge in Mohave County, Lee Jantzen, who failed to take timely action, and who in previous cases reportedly had been censured by the Arizona Supreme Court and reprimanded by the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct for the same kind of behavior.
Conservative Republican political consultant Constantin Querard told The Wanderer on August 7 that he believes there’s a good possibility for Hamadeh to come out the electoral winner.
“Going directly to the Supreme Court is the right move,” Querard said. “The case has merit and a legitimate right to be heard, and the trial judge has been remarkably incompetent. Hamadeh still has a real chance to prevail and if they count the ballots that have not yet been counted, I believe he will end up as the winner in the attorney general’s race.”
In an August 4 Daily Independent article, Neff wrote that Hamadeh’s “first trial was held December 23 in front of Judge Lee Jantzen of the Mohave County Superior Court. Jantzen dismissed Hamadeh’s election contest that same day, but did not rule on a January 3 motion for a new trial until July 14, when the motion was denied.”
In addition, remarkable electoral chaos on November 8 Election Day in populous Maricopa County, where voting was supervised by openly proclaimed anti-MAGA officials, left deep suspicions about the results of the statewide totals.
An article by reporter Rachel Alexander posted August 9 at the online Arizona Sun Times was headlined, “Accusations of Fraud and Illegal Activity Pile Up Regarding Arizona’s Elections.” It spotlighted the races by Hamadeh and GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake.
“Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh continue to contest their election losses in the 2022 election for governor and attorney general respectively, producing ongoing new evidence of irregularities and possible wrongdoing in the election,” Alexander wrote.
“Much of the evidence has taken months to come out, including evidence related to the problematic 2020 presidential election, due to stonewalling by Maricopa County and other government agencies at turning it over,” she wrote.
“. . . Much of the evidence appears to show violations of the state’s Election Procedures Manual, which are Class 2 misdemeanors. While not all of the alleged violations can be described as fraud, many of them can be characterized as alleged criminal activity,” Alexander wrote.
One of the major allegations for both the 2020 and 2022 elections, she wrote, concerned signature verification, with different handwriting on the ballot envelopes than the signature on file, or a completely different name, or even no signature at all on the envelopes.
Another serious discrepancy, she wrote, was similar handwriting for different voters’ names, indicating the same person likely signed fraudulently for multiple people.
Also, Alexander wrote, an issue in Hamadeh’s race was “the discovery after his trial that ‘undervotes’ in Pinal County were not counted. After they were discovered and counted, Kris Mayes’ lead in the race shrunk to only 280 votes. Hamadeh has accused then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of withholding information about the undervotes until after his trial.”
After helping to supervise the 2022 election, including the long count of her own gubernatorial race against Republican nominee Lake, the left-wing incumbent Secretary of State Democrat Hobbs was announced to have won the governorship by less than one percent of more than 2.5 million votes cast.
Alexander wrote: “After hearing about the undervotes, Hamadeh’s team investigated and discovered that as many as 76,339 votes may not have been counted throughout the state.”
Podcaster Joe Rogan told his huge audience in early August that he believed there was “real fraud” against Lake in 2022. In a video posted August 4 at Sean Hannity’s website, Rogan was seen saying:
“The Kari Lake stuff in Arizona that they’re trying to dismiss…. It looks like there’s real fraud there. It looks like there’s some real shenanigans there. At the very least, there was voting machines that weren’t working properly, and it seems very suspicious that a lot of them were in Republican area…. I think there’s coordinated efforts to make sure that certain people get elected. I don’t know how far they go, but I know it’s not zero.”
This inflamed the establishment that’s determined to bow down to fraud when it works their way.
Some ill-informed critics of Rogan tried to brush off his criticisms, as they had brushed off Lake’s. One excuse was that machines malfunctioned in Democrat areas, too. However, many more Republicans than Democrats were expected to vote on Election Day, as is traditionally the case, so GOP party members were the ones impeded from or denied their opportunity.
Another example of Mayes jumping in to cases to push the left-wing agenda was her joining other Democrat state attorneys general to support government colluding with social media to tell them what to post.
On August 5 reporter Rachel Alexander posted at The Arizona Sun Times: “A federal judge in July barred the federal government from communicating with social-media companies after two Republican attorneys general sued, but now some Democratic attorneys general, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, are joining the lawsuit in support of the government.”
Alexander wrote that an amicus curiae brief was led by New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James to defend the censorship “as responding to ‘the dangers that the spread of harmful content on social-media platforms may pose to public health and safety’,” and specifically listing “‘election integrity’ as a topic that is one of the ‘matters within the unique expertise of state governments’.”
Arizona GOP State Rep. Alex Kolodin warned that Mayes was taking a dangerous step and said this would attract the attention of the State House. Kolodin tweeted: “Labeling speech dangerous and calling for it to be suppressed is the first act of tyrants. Rest assured the House will be taking a very close look at this!”
Challenging Idaho
In a separate development, Mayes also joined other pro-abortion Democrat state attorney generals to challenge the state of Idaho’s prohibition of minors traveling to other states for abortions.
The AZ Free News site posted on August 6: “Mayes joined a coalition of 20 Democratic attorneys general to challenge the ban in federal court.”
In her typical radical rhetoric that also tries to cloak the slaughter in euphemisms, Mayes said, “When a state like Idaho prevents it[s] residents from getting reproductive health care in their home state, those patients are entitled to seek out care in a state that lets patients make medical decisions without imposition of the government.”
Just what other medical activities does Mayes also believe that minors should obtain without parental consent or knowledge?
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