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Government Corruption

Arizona Supreme Court Election Integrity Wins over Soros Ballot Measure

2022-08-31

[Breitbart] Supporters for election integrity scored a major victory Friday when the Arizona Supreme Court

...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
held that Proposition 210 — a ballot initiative to undo Arizona’s new election integrity law, financed with George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
’s money — cannot be on the November ballot due to a lack of valid signatures.

Good.

Arizona is one of the states that, in the aftermath of the 2020 election, decided that statutory reforms were needed to make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat, to increase public confidence in the election result.

A good choice.

Under the Arizona Constitution, laws passed by elected legislatures can be overridden by ballot initiatives. Many of these initiatives impose measures that politicians reject after careful consideration. One such example of a left-wing initiative was Arizona’s forced taxpayer funding of political campaigns, which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett (2011).

Billionaire ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~ George Soros largely funded the latest effort to override the elected legislature in the Grand Canyon State as his Open Society Foundation, as well as another ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~ group called Way to Win — which claims credit for Democrat victories in 2020 — funded a ballot initiative through a left-wing group with the euphemistic name: Arizonans for Free and Fair Elections. The well-financed ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~s submitted over 475,000 signatures.

Conservatives challenged the validity of these signatures. After a round of litigation, the Arizona Supreme Court sent the matter back to a Maricopa County judge for a final assessment. The trial judge held last week that the organizers had barely met the necessary 239,926 signatures, clearing that hurdle by only a couple thousand votes.

Almost 50% fake? That’s ambitious, even for Soros drones.

But on appeal again to the Arizona Supreme Court, the justices held on Thursday that they were "unable to verify the validity rate used by the trial court" and ordered the trial judge to explain his calculation by midday Friday. When the trial judge failed to justify his calculations, the Arizona Supreme Court concluded that the ballot initiative did not have enough legal signatures to proceed to November’s election.

Oh dear. How embarrassing for the trial judge.

"The irony is rich, because signature verification is a standard election integrity requirement," former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, chairman of the Center for Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), exclusively told Breitbart News. "To have a ballot measure regarding elections not approved for the ballot because not enough legal voters supported it is precisely the sort of the thing that the Left aims to disallow. The fact that the ballot measure in question was designed to eradicate such election safeguards highlights the importance of those safeguards."

Yep.

Posted by:Fred

#3 Heh

Posted by: Lord garth 2022-08-31 12:49

#2 The Maricopa County judge tried to throw Soros a bone even though half the signatures were fake. Hopefully he is on the ballot in November.

Posted by: Super Hose 2022-08-31 12:44

#1 That "valid signature" thing sure does cut both ways.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-31 06:15

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