Arizona: McSally Trails Sinema by Over 20,000 Votes, Vows to “Continue Fighting”
Results unlikely before November 14th
As if the nightmare in my own state isn’t bad enough, Arizona is also facing uncertainty with regard to its Senate race. So far, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema leads Republican Martha McSally by approximately 22,000 votes.
McSally issued a statement in which she vows to stay the course “until every ballot is counted.”
We may not know the results until after November 14th, the deadline for rural counties to address problems, per a settlement reached Friday.
Votes from Election Day are still being tabulated in Arizona.
As of Saturday morning, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema was leading the race against Republican Martha McSally by around 20,000 votes. McSally had led by a narrow margin in the days after Election Day, but Sinema took the lead when ballots from heavily Democratic areas such as Maricopa County were counted.
One reason it is taking days to count the votes is that around three-quarters of Arizona’s voters send mail-in ballots, meaning that they fill out their votes at home and mail them to their county board of elections. Since some mail-in ballots arrive close to Election Day, it takes longer to count them.
Additionally, Maricopa County and Pima County — two primarily Democratic counties — allow voters to address problems with their mail-in ballots up to five days after the election if there is a disparity between the signature on their voter registration and the signature on the ballot envelope. Last week, four county Republican parties sued to prevent counties from trying to verify signatures after polls closed.
Arizona Democrats and Republicans reached a settlement on the issue on Friday, allowing voters in rural counties as well as in Maricopa and Pima to have extra time to fix problems with their ballots. The counties have until November 14 to address the issue.
McSally issued the following statement Friday: “Equal protection under the law is a fundamental constitutional right for American voters. As a combat veteran, I fought to protect it. And today, we won an important battle to preserve that right for rural voters in Arizona. I will continue fighting until every ballot is counted.”
NEW: Statement from Martha McSally #AZSen https://t.co/L0yVvbsAe0
— Martha McSally (@MarthaMcSallyAZ) November 10, 2018
Meanwhile, Republicans in Arizona are contesting the involvement of an election official who previously represented “clients in narco-terrorism and firearms scandals,” including Fast and Furious. They contend that Adrian Fontes “intentionally put himself above the law and the judicial process” and therefore should not be involved in counting votes.
A county official in Arizona, whom Republicans accuse of destroying evidence to cover up “voting irregularities,” has previously defended the accused ringleader of a group of gun straw buyers in Operation Fast and Furious, the federal operation that led to the death of a Border Patrol agent in the state.
Before he was elected in 2016 as Maricopa County recorder, Adrian Fontes was an attorney representing clients in narco-terrorism and firearms scandals.
He is now at the center of a contentious vote-count procedure in Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, where Democrat Kyrsten Sinema suddenly took a lead over Republican Martha McSally, thanks to votes mostly in Maricopa County.
The Republican Party objected to Fontes’ efforts to allow voters to confirm that they signed early ballots that were dropped off on Election Day, and criticized the official for opening emergency voting centers the weekend before Tuesday’s election and for mixing disputed ballots with valid ones.
. . . . “Adrian Fontes intentionally put himself above the law and the judicial process,” Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines said in a statement before the agreement. “Such a man cannot be trusted to administer elections in Arizona. We are reviewing all legal options at this time and will continue to protect the rights of every legal voter in Arizona.”
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No way Arizona voted this lunatic in. Total voter fraud.
With that rat sessions out of the way, the DOJ must investigate asap.
I live in Arizona. It is possible.
What jail are you in?
As hard as it may be for Conservatives to accept it is possible that the state that sent McCain and Flake to the Senate will do so for Sinema.
As hard as it may be to accept maybe a bunch of illegal aliens voted
On what grounds do you allege fraud? Why is it less likely that 51% of Arizonans voted for this lunatic than that 49% did so?
Why is Arizona so much more politically conservative than New Mexico?
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Arizona-so-much-more-politically-conservative-than-New-Mexico
Irrelevant. If 49% can vote for the lunatic then 51% can do so just as easily.
From CBS News”Last week, four county Republican parties sued to prevent counties from trying to verify signatures after polls closed.” Totally false. They sued to have ALL Counties use the same criteria for counting ballots. Nice spin though.
McSally won the election but lost but lost the count. Eh, Republicans never were as good at counting as Democrats.
Martha McBoring, such she lose the election, lost the election due to her own sorry past positions and her uninspiring positions.
Name one inspiring position that McSally has.
Here’s about 30:
http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Martha_McSally.htm
A list is not one reason. Name ONE reason. Try again bucko.
Bonus points if the position is inspiring.
Is there an agency that hires you unhappy, otherwise unemployable trolls?
What is that freak styer paying these days?
Of course they’re paid. The
democratcommunist party hires them by the hundreds through various organizations.Now you see how crucial it was for Arizona Democrats to get rid of Sheriff Joe. If he were still there, these “election officials” in Maricopa County would be occupying jail cel..s
Joe Apraio is gone (finally!). His incompetence cost the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars due to staff malfeasance. I am happy that he is gone.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/maricopa-sheriff-lawsuits-cost-taxpayers-millions/
On what grounds would he have arrested them? Oh, I forgot, he never needed grounds.
On the grounds election fraud is illegal.
Not only are you begging the question, but that something is illegal is not automatic grounds for arresting someone.
What’s the point of elections?
America is screwed.
Look up Coke Stevenson and LBJ’s first senate run. If you never heard of Stevenson, you are in for a great treat. An amazing Texan.
Yes, I know about it. I live in Texas, I have Caro’s 3 volume LBJ bio.
I don’t know what your argument is. That America is doing just great despite (D) election fraud?
You’re smart than that.
I can’t read minds, my friend. I can only go by what you type here.
50K Americans dead in Vietnam.
What’s a little voter fraud?
Give up. Move to California if you haven’t already.
There’s a lot of rational territory between, “Elections are useless. The Republic is dead”, and “No worries…be happy”.
I advocate for the rational middle; “Election fraud in any form is unacceptable, and our healthy republic can and will find ways to eliminate it, as our predecessors have done.”
“Adrian Fontes intentionally put himself above the law and the judicial process,” Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines said in a statement before the agreement.
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Yah, no. I’d have to know a lot more about Fontes besides he was a criminal defense attorney for really bad people. One of the best men I know was an attorney for the Oklahoma City bomber. A lot of criminal defense lawyers do it for the Constitution, because it has to be done.
That aside, I REALLY hope the people of Arizona are not so daft as to have elected this poor ditz.
Sinema is not a ditz. Don’t swallow the blue pill.
Sinema is a radical liberal/Progressive, who ran as a moderate centrist. Voters who voted for Sinema, the moderate, are the ones who took the blue pill. They are actually electing Sinema the bomb-throwing liberal radical. If Sinema actually won the election, without vote fraud and irregularities, then it is evidence that she lied better than McSally.
Don’t get me wrong. McSally ran as a moderate centrist, while she is, at least, as liberal as John McCain and Jeff Flake, if not more so. So, both candidates misrepresented themselves. But, in a statewide Arizona race, a Republican candidate has to run as a moderate to garner most of the Republican vote, while at the same time not turning off all of the liberal voters who inhabit the Phoenix Metro area, which accounts for 1/2 the population of the whole state of Arizona.
Don’t worry – Arizonans (Arizoners? Arizonians?) will shoot her. More than one probably, according to Sinema. Or maybe someone will return from their Taliban vacation and go all “Allahu Akbar” on her arse … it ould be a shame Arizoners failed to live up to her claims about them …
Sinema is a ditz. Cut from the same mold as Occasional-Cortex.
“Sinema is not a ditz.”
She is an anti-American witch.
Barry the “B” on your keyboard is showing “W”.
🙂
End the secret ballot.
I will stand for my vote.
Secrecy is an avenue to non-accountability.
I would rather be able to look up my voting record, and verify my vote went is as cast.
ID in advance of voting and signatures on ballots works for me – but – there needs to be a guarantee of privacy. I don’t want to be spammed after an election, nor harassed for my vote.
In what way? Was there something illegal or unethical about the way he represented his notorious client?
Lipstick on a pig…lol.
This went so well for the Democrats in Montana, Arizona, and Florida they’re trying it in Georgia.
Fixing problems with their ballots??? That is complete bull crap. I don’t care what party it may or may not help. Polls close on Election Day for a reason. That’s the deadline. If you can’t follow instructions and mail in your ballot properly, you shouldn’t be choosing something important, like who represents your state in the US Senate.
People’s signatures change. If some election official decides that your current signature isn’t close enough to how you signed it 30 years ago you should have a chance to demonstrate that you are the voter you claim to be.