“We have met the election-interferer, and he is us.”
Wow, it always is projection, isn’t it?
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Well, just look at how Fontes rigged the election in 2020 but completely forgot to rig it so he would win.
Or how Hillary Clinton organized a voter fraud conspiracy in 2016 that was so vast it included roughly 1 out of every 100 people in America, so disciplined that not a one of them ever came forward to blow the whistle, and so incompetent that nobody considered maybe having them vote in some swing states or something.
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Why sue? If they want to throw away a house seat why not let them?
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Because we Dems seem to feel like not disenfranchising people is the right thing, even if they think differently than we do?
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That, but can you imagine the campaign next time around? “Hobbs sued corrupt government officials to give Republicans a voice!” They’ll be so confused!
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We know what the votes said. Direct their anger at the officials that threw away their votes.
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Oh, you and your logical thinking! It’s always the Dems’ fault, whatever goes wrong. Them’s just facts! (/s)
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Obviously the local officials would be most to blame if these votes didn’t get counted but you explicitly asked “why sue?” As Secretary of State Hobbs has a professional and moral obligation to sue, so disenfranchised voters would be correct to assign some fraction of blame to her if she decided not to take her duties seriously.
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it’ll be “democrats hate cops and kill babies” like every other time
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I honestly believe that this is completely foreign to Trump and Trump supporters at this point.
A federal judge rejected Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity against a lawsuit accusing him and the RNC of conspiring to disenfranchise voters, in part because Trump only tried to disenfranchise voters in districts that he lost:
But during the entire Trump presidency his supporters acted as if this were entirely normal and what every president does. Of course presidents deny FEMA aid to states that didn’t vote for them. Of course presidents ask the IRS to target their rivals.
The idea that any government official ever just does what’s correct is absolutely and utterly foreign to them, and they’ll never admit that anyone ever does it.
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Lake loses a net of about 8,000 votes without Cochise County, so it’s worse for her if they refuse to certify.
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Ah, but now there’s a very good chance that it will be spoken by someone who actually assaulted a police officer on January 6th and is under investigation for child trafficking
And no one on the right will blink an eye
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As current secretary of state for Arizona, Hobbs is literally doing her job by suing the county do what it’s supposed to do. Even though if she simply looked the other way, she’d have an even greater margin of victory.
That’s part of what makes this all so weird — a heavily Republican-leaning leaning county is basically trying to disenfranchise all of its voters … give more votes to the Democrat? What sense does that make?
In other words, she’s standing up for democracy, like she should be doing.
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Looks like they’re digging in.
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They normalise corruption by pretending that the other side has always been doing it.
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Precedent. This time it’s a district Republicans won, in two years it’s ten districts Democrats won.
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And where do you get the idea they’ll do anything but blame the Democrats, “fraud”, and anyone they don’t like? They will just blame the Democrats. It is just the RIGHT thing to do to make sure that ALL votes are counted. Period.
Well, except why would a heavily democratic area, that would presumable have a democratic election board, not certify, though? I guess you can have a case where a bunch of republicans are voted out and they attempt to scuttle it on the way out, but… that’s kind of the point, that Democrats are playing by the rules here and have been.
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Our weakest and strongest characteristic
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My guess is that they see the numbers heavily for Lake in their area, they see the vote go the other way, and just cannot fathom that people in other places voted differently. “Everyone I know voted for Lake, how could she have lost?” So they’re determined to go to court to expose the corruption in the system.
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I’m not at all confident that they even think that deeply. “It didn’t go our way! Not fair!”
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