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HUGE WIN: Judge Orders Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State to Release List of 218,000 Registered Voters Who Did Not Provide Proof of Citizenship

America First Legal won big today in a lawsuit against Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.

The Superior Court of Arizona ordered Secretary Fontes to release the list of up to 218,000 registered voters who did not provide proof of citizenship as required by law.

Secretary Fontes must release the list by Monday.

Fontes previously claimed a computer glitch allowed more than 200,000 people in Arizona to register without proof of citizenship so America First Legal sued him on behalf of Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, known as “EZAZ.org.”

“At trial, Secretary Fontes testified that his office only possesses a partial list of 98,000 of the 218,000 affected individuals because the Arizona Motor Vehicles Division has not yet provided him with a complete list. However, the court found that Secretary Fontes “provided inconsistent testimony on this point” and that “[h]is testimony suggested that he lacked detailed familiarity with the AZSOS’s efforts with regard to the issue and with regard to the records in the possession of the AZSOS related to the 218,000 individuals.” The court’s order requires Secretary Fontes to produce the list of 98,000 individuals that he has along with any other personally identifying information that he has about the 218,000 individuals,” America First Legal reported.

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Arizona officials claim Maricopa County needs 10-13 days to tabulate results of the election

Officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, are warning that it may take 10 to 13 days to finish tabulating the results of the election in the county. This comes from Maricopa County Deputy Elections Director Jennifer Liewer, who called for “the community’s patience” when it comes to tabulating election results.

“We want to make sure that this is a secure process, but we also want to make sure that it is an accurate process,” Liewer said.

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates said the tabulation may take so long because the ballot is two pages, there are dozens of contests per ballot, and there is heightened interest in the presidential election. He said more than 2.1 million Maricopa voters are expected to cast their ballot for the Nov. 5 contest, noting that 400,000 people so far have voted.

The “top message for voters” on Oct. 22 is “if you want to save time and avoid lines, vote early,” the county wrote on social media platform X.

Assistant Maricopa County Manager Zach Schira warned voters about the potential for longer lines.

“If I have one message for voters here today, it is this: That the longer ballots and higher interest in this 2024 general election will create longer lines on Election Day, and that’s okay,” he said. “But if you want to save time and you want to avoid those lines, vote early, either in person or by mail. That’ll save you time, and it’ll help us report more results on election night.”

To help streamline operations, election officials are increasing staffing, adding high-speed tabulators, and encouraging in-person voting on Election Day instead of dropping off early ballots.

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Homeless man admits to torching mailbox, destroying ballots in Phoenix

A homeles Phoenix man was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly set fire to a US Postal Service collection box that contained numerous election ballots. 35-year-old Dieter Klofkorn was charged with one count of arson and booked into Maricopa County jail. He later confessed to the crime.

The Phoenix Fire Department contacted police shortly after 1 am on Thursday after they responded to a fire at a USPS collection box on Seventh Avenue, a press release stated. 

While working on leads in the case, investigators were led to possible suspect Klofkorn. He was arrested on an outstanding and unrelated warrant. While in custody, he admitted to the arson. “Klofkorn stated that he committed the arson because he wanted to be arrested and that his actions were not politically motivated and not related to anything involving the upcoming election,” the press release stated.

Klofkorn was said to have lit a piece of paper on fire and tossed it into the collection box, in which there were around 20 election ballots and other pieces of mail, which were destroyed, according to AZ Central. Social media users claimed that the fire was set by a Republican, with an official Democratic Party account on X spreading the claims. “But yeah, Democrats are the ones doing voter fraud,” wrote the Harris County, Texas Democratic Party X account in response to a post that claimed Klofkorn was a Republican. 

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‘Objectively outrageous’: Judge tosses criminal case against mom arrested for criticizing city official at public meeting

A state judge in Arizona this week tossed a criminal case against a woman who was arrested at a city council meeting for criticizing the pay raise and professional competence of a city attorney.

Justice of the Peace Gerald Williams on Wednesday had dismissed the trespassing charge filed against Rebekah Massie two months ago as unconstitutional, saying it was “objectively outrageous” for the government to attempt to control the content of her political speech.

“For more than two months I’ve been living with the threat of punishment and jail time — being taken away from my kids, even — for doing nothing more than criticizing the government,” Massie said in a statement following the ruling. “Free speech still matters in America, and I can’t tell you what a relief it is to have people on my side standing up for our rights with me.”

Against the request of prosecutors, the charge was dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning the case against Massie cannot be refiled at a later date.

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Maricopa County officials claim election results will take 10-13 days to process in Arizona

Maricopa County has been the epicenter of election integrity issues since 2020, and now county officials are claiming that the results of the 2024 election will take 10-13 days to be counted.

12 News reported that local officials are blaming “tight races,” high voter turnout and this year’s “two-page ballot,” for the expected delay.

The report noted that 79 races are on the area’s ballot. The estimated voter turnout is expected to reach one million residents, with 400,000 voters having already cast early ballots. 

Maricopa County’s 2020 election results were highly contested. RSBN reported that only last year it was revealed that thousands of ballots were counted without proof of citizenship.  

In addition, area officials certified questionable election results for the area’s 2022 midterm elections despite nearly 300,000 ballots allegedly lacking a legally required chain of custody, per RSBN.

Election integrity has been a main concern for conservatives after multiple unprecedented circumstances occurred in the 2020 election, and all eyes are on previous players. 

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Arizona State University Caught in Free Speech Tug-of-War Over Gov-Funded “Disinformation” Battle

Arizona State University (ASU) is a public school and therefore undisputed subject to the US Constitution’s free speech rules. Yet a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demonstrates that it was prominently involved in working with, and on behalf of the US government. To affect free speech.

That would be a blatant example of what Congress is investigating and what the critics are calling Big Tech-(Big) Government collusion, given that the target of the “collaboration” the university was involved in was online “disinformation.”

The thing to remember when talking about this collusion is that the current White House had enough wits about it to never make a “beeline” reaching the end result of censorship. From what is known from the congressional probe and the Twitter Files alone, this was always instead a meandering effort that included many seemingly intermediary and/or legitimate actors.

According to James Rushmore for Racket News, in this case, ASU was the recipient of grants (and, in line with the overall “process” – the purpose of the one given in January 2024 and reported by the Washington Examiner is not clearly stated). The grant though did come from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC).

In and of itself, not ring many alarm bells – until the reason behind it, and the activities of GEC are taken into account. Those activities, in the case of ASU’s involvement, meant working with government agencies to flag what was decided to be disinformation, but also something referred to as “falsified media.”

The obsession with “Russian disinformation” featured here as well, a hallmark of “arguments” of the political party that came to power in 2020 in the US. But also a hallmark that had been introduced into public discourse with the party’s defeat four years earlier. The claims have since, but it seems to no avail, been thoroughly debunked.

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Arizona Court Says Marijuana Users Must Actually Be Impaired To Be Punished For DUI

The state can’t suspend someone’s driver’s license because they have THC in their bloodstream unless they are actually impaired while behind the wheel, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled, upholding a provision in a marijuana legalization law that voters passed in 2020.

Aaron Kirsten was pulled over for speeding in Sedona in October 2022, and the police officer saw that he had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet. Kirsten refused a field sobriety test, but when he did a breathalyzer test, he blew a 0.083, slightly above the legal limit, and he was arrested.

While in custody, Kirsten consented to a blood draw, but the Department of Public Safety’s analysis showed his blood alcohol content was just 0.063, less than the 0.08 maximum BAC allowed under state law.

But DPS also tested Kirsten’s blood for drugs and found he had tetrahydrocannabinol metabolites. As a result, the Arizona Department of Transportation suspended his license for 90 days, citing a state law that bars driving if THC metabolites are present.

At an administrative appeal, Kirsten testified that he hadn’t consumed THC in the 24 hours prior to his arrest, and any effects from the THC he had consumed had long ago passed. A family member who is a nurse and chiropractor also testified on Kirsten’s behalf, telling the administrative law judge that THC metabolites—the compounds that form as the body breaks down a substance—can stay in the blood for weeks after consumption.

But the administrative law judge said it was “irrelevant” whether Kirsten had smoked marijuana within 24 hours of his arrest and sided with ADOT, ruling that the agency didn’t need to prove he was impaired by THC to suspend his license for using it previously.

Kirsten appealed the ruling to the Maricopa County Superior Court, which upheld the administrative judge’s reasoning.

But the appellate court said both got it wrong and effectively ignored voter-created laws that bars the state from punishing drivers who have legally used marijuana products but are not impaired while driving.

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Arizona Lawmakers Attempted To Cover Up Massive Voter Registration Glitch

Lawmakers in Arizona scrambled desperately to spin news of a massive voter-registration glitch that saw nearly 100,000 people included on voter rolls for decades without having provided proof of citizenship.

Audio of a phone call between Governor Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Attorney General Kris Mayes was obtained by The Washington Post. The circumstances of the Post’s obtaining the audio are unknown.

Governor Hobbs called it an “urgent, dire situation” and Attorney General Mayes said he worried they would be accused of trying to rig the 2024 election.

“When this goes public, it is going to have all of the conspiracy theorists in the globe—in the world—coming back to re-litigate the past three elections, at least in Arizona,” Hobbs said.

“And it’s going to validate all of their theories about illegal voting in our elections, even though we all know that’s not true.”

The 40-minute phone call took place on 10 September. Initially, it was thought around 150,000 voters were affected, but the figure was revised to just under 100,000.

Although the voters affected included Democrats and independents, the biggest proportion were Republican.

The three officials engage in tense debate throughout the phone call over how to respond to the problem without disqualifying citizens who are eligible to vote and, perhaps most importantly for the administration, how to save face and avoid accusations of electoral impropriety.

Fontes, who spoke most during the conversation, said: “They’re going to beat us up no matter what the hell we do, no matter what the hell we say.”

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Sheriffs in Arizona Counties Refuse to Enforce State Law Making it a Crime for Migrants to Illegally Cross into the U.S. if Passed

Arizona sheriffs are causing a political firestorm by refusing to enforce a proposed state law that would criminalize illegal crossings at the Arizona-Mexico border.

Proposition 314, set to appear on November’s ballot, seeks to empower local authorities to arrest and prosecute migrants who enter the U.S. illegally.

According to the Arizona legislature’s website:

Proposition 314 would establish criminal penalties against a person who is not lawfully present in the United States and who submits false documentation when both applying for public benefits and during the employment eligibility verification process. An entity that accepts public benefits applications would have to verify the person’s identity by using a federal verification database.

Proposition 314 would make it a class 2 felony for a person to knowingly sell fentanyl if the person knows that the drug being sold contains fentanyl, that the fentanyl was not lawfully manufactured or imported into the United States and that the drug caused the death of another person.

Proposition 314 would establish state crimes related to entering this state from a location that is not a lawful port of entry or not complying with an order to leave this state.

These sheriffs, who oversee counties along Arizona’s southern border, are citing everything from “budgetary concerns” to accusations of “racism” as reasons for not enforcing the new law.

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Illegal Aliens Living in Phoenix, Arizona Apartment Complex Admit Being Registered to Vote, Express Interest in Voting for Kamala Harris 

This is why the Biden-Harris Regime ferried in more than 15 million illegal aliens over the last 3 years.

Non-citizens and illegal aliens living at the Los Vecinos apartment complex in Phoenix, Arizona admitted to being registered to vote, according to undercover video posted by the Oversight Project.

“Just out of curiosity, are you registered to vote?” a Real Muckraker reporter asked the illegal.

“Yes, we’ve already registered,” the illegal said.

“Are you a citizen?” the reporter asked.

“No,” they responded.

Other illegal aliens in the same apartment complex also admitted to being registered to vote and expressed interest in voting for Kamala Harris.

One of the illegal aliens living at the Los Vecinos apartment complex said that Trump would be better for the economy but he prefers Kamala Harris because she supports the illegal aliens and won’t deport him.

In 2020, Arizona was decided by a margin of less than 11,000 votes.

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