Arizona GOP Gov. Ducey Says Biden Won State's Election

Arizona's Republican Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday that Democrat Joe Biden won the state's presidential election vote and endorsed its voting process despite numerous claims of irregularities.

"I trust our election system; there's integrity in our election system," Ducey told "The Mike Broomhead Show" on FM radio station KTAR on Tuesday. "Joe Biden did win Arizona."

The state has been a focus of attention in the election with several claims of irregularities such as Sharpie felt tip pens being issued to mark ballots, causing them to be rejected, to accusations of votes being manipulated in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, due to the Dominion Voting Systems.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, has dismissed the claims as baseless conspiracy theories.

Every county in Arizona has certified its results and the state is scheduled to do the same Monday.

Earlier Tuesday, Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., told Newsmax TV that Arizona's Secretary of State website posted the official margin of victory for Biden over President Donald Trump was 4,202 votes after originally stating the margin to be more than 10,000 out of more than 3.2 million cast.

"So the steps are, of course, you have voting, you have tabulation, then you have certification at the county level," Ducey said.

"That's being conducted or is completed. The next step is state certification. There's no reason at this point, with what's happening inside the legal system, that that wouldn't go forward, and that is my expectation."

 

Trump Campaign: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan to Hold Public Hearings on Election

Three states are set to hold public hearings in coming days to assure voters that all legal votes have been counted and "illegal votes have not been counted," the Trump campaign said Tuesday, according to Fox News.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney who is leading the legal challenge effort is also set to make a presentation, according to Fox News.

"It's in everyone's interest to have a full vetting of election irregularities and fraud," Giuliani said Tuesday. "And the only way to do this is with public hearings, complete with witnesses, videos, pictures, and other evidence of illegalities from the Nov. 3 election."

Pennsylvania and Michigan both certified their election results for Democrat Joe Biden this week, and Georgia did so last week. Those three states, along with uncontested states, give Biden enough electoral votes to claim the presidency, but President Donald Trump has said he will not concede, and his legal team continues challenges in those and other states, alleging massive voter fraud.

So far, courts have dismissed multiple cases, and any new votes found for Trump have not been enough to turn the election in any state that has gone for Biden.

The Pennsylvania state Senate will hold the first of the hearings Wednesday, according to the Trump campaign. It is set to feature testimony from witnesses "who have filed affidavits attesting to 2020 election fraud."

The Pennsylvania Senate Majority referred to the hearing in a tweet as an "informational meeting on 2020 election issues."

The Arizona legislature will hold its meeting Monday, followed the next day by Michigan.

 

Republicans Sue to Stop Wisconsin Vote Certification

Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to block certification of the presidential election results even as a recount over Joe Biden’s apparent win over President Donald Trump is ongoing.

The lawsuit echoes many of the same arguments Trump is making in trying, unsuccessfully, to have tens of thousands of ballots discounted during the recount. It also seeks to give the power to name presidential electors to the Republican-controlled Legislature.

Wisconsin state law allows the political parties to pick electors, which was done in October. Once the election results are certified (it's scheduled to be done Dec. 1), those pre-determined electors will cast their ballots for the winner on Dec. 14.

“The litigation filed this afternoon seeks to disenfranchise every Wisconsinite who voted in this year’s presidential election,” said Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul. “The Wisconsin Department of Justice will ensure that Wisconsin’s presidential electors are selected based on the will of the more than 3 million Wisconsin voters who cast a ballot.”

The lawsuit also rehashes a claim that a federal court rejected in September that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to “illegally circumvent Wisconsin absentee voting laws” through grants awarded by a nonprofit center he funds.

At least 10 cases have been filed across the country seeking to halt certification in parts or all of key battleground states, including lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign in Michigan and Pennsylvania. So far none have been successful.

Wisconsin’s election results are scheduled to be certified Dec. 1.

The Wisconsin lawsuit was filed by attorney Erick Kaardal, a former Minnesota Republican Party official who also represented rapper Kanye West in his unsuccessful lawsuit attempting to get on the ballot in Wisconsin. Kaardal represents a conservative group called the Wisconsin Voters Alliance and a host of Republican voters.

Kaardal also filed an unsuccessful federal lawsuit in Wisconsin that attempted to block $6.3 million from being awarded to five heavily Democratic cities from the nonprofit Center for Technology and Civic Life, which is primarily funded by Zuckerberg and his wife. A judge tossed the lawsuit that argued the money amounted to bribery to bolster Democratic turnout in Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee and Racine.

Many of the same arguments alleging the money was illegally awarded and therefore the election results should be nullified are being made in the new lawsuit in state court.

Other claims mirror those by Trump’s campaign. Those claims allege absentee ballots should not have been counted where election officials filled in missing information on the certification envelope that contains the ballot and that voters who identified as “indefinitely confined” were lying to avoid the state’s photo ID law.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission advises clerks that they can fill in missing information on the ballot envelopes, such as the address of a witness. That’s been the practice for years, and it’s never been challenged.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court this spring affirmed the state elections commission’s guidance that it’s up to each voter to decide whether they are indefinitely confined. More than 215,000 voters this year said they were confined, which allows them to cast a ballot without having to present a photo ID. The lawsuit says more than 96,000 self-identified confined voters should not count.

Biden won Wisconsin by 20,608 votes, but the lawsuit claims that more than 156,000 ballots should be tossed out.

The lawsuit alleges that more than 14,000 ballots “requested in the name of a registered Republican by someone other than that person” were cast and that more than 12,000 “Republican ballots” were returned but not counted. People do not register to vote by political party in Wisconsin so it is impossible to know how many Republicans or Democrats requested absentee ballots.

The lawsuit comes as the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties has resulted in very few vote changes. As of Tuesday morning, Trump had gained just 57 votes. Trump paid for a recount in only the two counties with the largest numbers of Democratic votes.

Nearly 400 absentee ballots cast in Milwaukee that were not opened on Election Day were discovered Tuesday, a mistake that the city’s top elections official attributed to human error. The county board of canvassers voted unanimously to count the ballots as part of the recount, which must be done by Dec. 1.

 

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Republicans rally in support of party candidates in Ga., runoffs set for January

Vice President Mike Pence, center, Senator Kelly Loeffler, left, and Senator David Perdue, right, wave at individuals at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Ga., Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Pence arrived on Friday to support Loeffler and Perdue, who are both facing a run-off election in January. (Alyssa Pointer /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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As both Senate races in Georgia are headed toward runoffs in January, Republicans are stepping up their efforts to push GOP candidates into office.

The January runoffs will determine which party holds the majority in the Senate, bringing those races into the national spotlight. As a result, a number of outside groups supporting both parties’ candidates have launched major ad buying blitzes in an attempt to sway voters.

The races between Republican incumbent David Purdue and his Democrat challenger John Ossoff as well as Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler and her Democrat challenger Raphael Warnock have seen a massive spike in campaign funding for the final sprint towards voting day.

Additionally, a number of Republican officials, even those from out of state, are rallying to aid in in-person campaigning. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have thrown in their support on the campaign trail along with Vice President Mike Pence.

“That’s why Georgia and America need David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler back in a Republican majority in the United States Senate,” stated Pence. “We need the Peach State to defend the Senate and the road to a Republican majority goes straight through Georgia.”

Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a Defend the Majority Rally, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 in Canton, Ga. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

The GOP has made each of the races about preventing the radical left from gaining traction in the upper chamber. The Georgia Republican Party said they are working around the clock to ensure voters understand they have a clear choice between radical liberals or the candidates who will fight for Georgia values.

Meanwhile, voters seem eager to participate in those tight races as the number of requested absentee ballots for the election is breaking records. Georgia officials said there has already been nearly a million requests, marking a notably high voter turnout.

Several Republicans have noted this race is all about turnout and are encouraging voters to cast their ballot on January 5, 2021.

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Perdue, Loeffler Join Trump Call for New Georgia Recount

Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., and Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., endorsed President Donald Trump's call for a second round of the election results in the state, insisting on a signature match of absentee ballots with those on voter registration lists.

Perdue tweeted Sunday:

"I support President Trump's request for a recount in Georgia, one in which signatures on absentee ballot envelopes are properly matched and verified to their signature on the registration. Anything less than that will not be a full and transparent recount."

Loeffler, likewise, echoed the sentiments in a Twitter post of her own, writing the recount must "count only the votes that were legally cast."

The Trump campaign Saturday filed for a second Georgia election recount, saying the first failed to include signature matching and "other vital safeguards."

Both Perdue and Loeffler are facing Jan. 5 runoff elections against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock after no one in the multi-candidate elections received more than 50% of the vote.

Rev. Warnock led Loeffler 32.9%-25.91%. But Loeffler and fellow Republican Doug Collins plus four other Republicans in a race with 20 candidates received a combined 49.3% of the vote compared to about 48.4% for Warnock and the next seven Democrats.

Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified the victory for Democrat Joe Biden after a first recount reduced the margin of victory to 12,670 votes out of about 5 million cast.

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp asked Raffensperger last week to conduct an audit of signatures on ballot envelopes because of accusations from the Trump campaign and others.

"It's important to note that this audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures of the absentee applications or the signatures on the ballot envelopes," Kemp said. "It seems simple enough to conduct a sample audit of signatures on the absentee ballot envelopes and compare those to the signatures on applications and on file at the secretary of state's office."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the request cannot be accommodated because the signatures on the ballot envelopes are matched when they are counted the first time, but then the ballots are separated from the envelope.

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Rep. Barry Loudermilk to Newsmax TV: Ga. Needs 'Deeper Forensic Audit'

Georgia's second recount must be a "deeper forensic audit' into potential voter fraud, particularly with the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs looming, according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., on Newsmax TV.

"There has to be a deeper forensic audit done," Loudermilk told Monday's "Stinchfield."

"What the Secretary of State is saying is we've already verified the signatures and we've separated the ballots from the envelopes. You still have to verify that people who are voting are people that should be voting.

"Whether you can discount their ballot or not in the last election, we need to know, if it's people who voted illegally, that they don't do it again in this runoff."

Added to the confusion of the current recount, the contested presidential election, and the upcoming Senate runoffs for the seats of Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., and Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., liberal activists have pushed for people to move to the state of Georgia to become eligible to vote for Democrat challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock.

Regardless, the fraud needs to be rooted out of Georgia, Loudermilk told host Grant Stinchfield.

"I believe there was fraud in this election," Loudermilk said. "People say, 'give us the evidence.' Well, you have to investigate to get to the evidence. We have a lot of circumstantial evidence. I mean, if you look in Georgia, Republicans won up and down the ballot, except for the presidential and the Senate race.

"Tell me how that has happened – when we Republicans held the House and the Senate. We made great gains in Georgia.

"A lot of interesting things will come out of this election, but we have to continue to fight to make sure future elections are trustworthy, that they have integrity."

Stats Prove Ballot Stuffing

Former Democratic strategist and White House adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Monday that Democratic presidential voter turnout was disproportionately larger than the population gains from 2012 to 2020 in key cities where President Donald Trump is disputing election tallies.

Appearing on “Greg Kelly Reports,” Morris pointed out that the vote for Joe Biden in Phoenix was 48% more than Barack Obama received in 2012, when the city only witnessed a 14% gain in population. Similarly, he said, Atlanta saw a 30% larger vote for Biden than Obama in 2012, despite a 9% gain in population, and Detroit had a 10% higher vote total for Biden than Obama while seeing no increase in population at all.

“And the only way that that increase can be justified is by ballot stuffing,” Morris said. “The non-Democratic cities didn’t realize that kind of gain. And even cities like New York and Chicago, that were not in swing states, didn’t realize that kind of a gain. It was pure ballot stuffing with absentee and mail-in ballots.”

Morris admitted that Democratic antipathy toward Trump could account for the increased voter turnout overall, from 135 million in 2016 to 150 million earlier this month. But it doesn’t explain why the turnout was significantly higher in the states where claims of fraud, particularly in Arizona, Michigan and Georgia, are being made, but not across the board in other Democrat-controlled cities.

“Sure it did,” Morris said. “But in these particular cities and in these particular states, where Biden won by 80,000 in one state, or 20,000 in another, these kinds spikes in turnout are indicative of ballot stuffing. The secretary of state in Michigan sent out 7.7 million absentee ballots, and got huge numbers back, and that permitted them to stuff the ballot [box] with phony ballots. Two hundred thousand absentee ballots in Pennsylvania, alone, were counted.”