A judge is questioning whether allegations by Republican Mark Finchem provide any legal basis for his request she set aside the Nov. 8 election he lost for secretary of state.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — A judge is questioning whether allegations by Republican Mark Finchem provide any legal basis for his request she set aside the Nov. 8 election he lost for secretary of state to Democrat Adrian Fontes.
"The evidence, for want of a better term that's out there, shows clearly that, as the secretary of state ... cajoled the Twitter people into censoring possibly as much as 50% of her constituency,'' he said."This was a political issue.'' Julian appeared no more impressed by McCauley's claim that Hobbs acted improperly in telling county boards of supervisors that they had to formally certify the returns for the general election by the Nov. 28 deadline and could not instead conduct their own recounts. Mohave and Cochise County, which initially balked, eventually complied, though it took a court order in Cochise County's case.
McCauley has another argument in his request that Julian order a do-over of the general election that Finchem lost by more than 120,000 votes. Another issue is that in filing suit, Finchem named only Hobbs and Fontes as defendants. Yet he wants Julian to order a new election in all 15 counties that are not defendants in the case.
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