Pinal County Elections Director, Virginia Ross, who oversaw the General Election, discovered discrepancies in the recount of Abe Hamadeh’s race for Arizona Attorney General, reportedly collected a $25,000 bonus for running a smooth election despite reporting final results without disclosing significant inaccuracies that would have changed the outcome of the election for Republicans in the state. Ross was also paid $175,000 for only four months of work. “Ross retired on Dec. 2, according to county spokesperson James Daniels, and moved to Texas the next day,” See it here. Ross moved out of the state the day after she retired on December 2nd, and there is no publicly listed information for her. The recount was ordered by a court days later. Virginia Ross was rewarded after the Pinal County Primary Election disaster, where the County ran out of Republican Ballots. What about the 63,000 incorrect ballots that were sent to Pinal County voters?
Abe Hamadeh filed a ‘Motion for New Trial’ in the Mohave County Superior Court on Tuesday after the recount in rural Pinal County brought the margin of victory down to 280 votes. A state judge announced Democrat Kris Mayes beat Republican Abe Hamadeh by 280 votes in the race for Arizona Attorney General on Thursday, December 29.
“Unfortunately, the recount identified more problems in an election already riddled with process failures,” his motion for a new trial states. “This further demonstrated that the vote count totals are likely inaccurate, with thousands of Arizonans’ votes not counted, thus casting further doubt about the actual result.”
Pinal County’s supervisors say they learned about the uncounted votes only after they voted to certify the results. At the meeting Wednesday, they said they still want a better picture of what happened and how to fix it.
Geraldine Roll, a law
yer from the county attorney’s office who took over as the new elections director in early December, explained in a report about the recount results last week that, along with several other problems – 424 ballots from 10 polling places weren’t counted in the initial results.
In Pinal County, ballots that voters cast in person on Election Day are not tabulated on the spot. Rather, they are securely transferred to the county’s headquarters where teams of workers put them into tabulation machines to be counted. The bulk of the errors Roll outlined occurred while the teams did that work. Some of the errors, Roll believes, may have happened because of paper jams or other problems that were not properly handled by the workers who were running the machines.
This is likely why Katie Hobbs threatened County Supervisors who did not vote to certify the election with felonies and arrests. See this Katie Hobbs knew about the discrepancies in Pinal County but withheld the information in court. Hobbs’ lawyers asked to delay the recount results from being presented before Abe Hamadeh’s lawsuit was dismissed. Here
On Jan. 2nd Hobbs laughs and giggles about not being able to repeat her oath of office to uphold the Constitution in a private ceremony.
As she did at the certification ceremony to sign off on her OWN election on Dece
mber 5, Hobbs chuckled and looked like a fool as she raised her right hand to take her Oath. Hobbs had a hard time following along with repeating the Oath, and she broke out in laughter after she was told to solemnly swear that she will support the Constitution.
“What a disgraceful display from a ‘so called’ leader. She is nothing of the sort. Katie Hobbs is incompetent and not a serious person. No honest person believes that the 2022 election was free and fair.”
Katie Hobbs refused to debate, did not campaign, had almost no following, and she ran against Kari Lake, one of the most popular Republican candidates in a generation. Hobbs was also part of killing HB2243 that would have taken dead people off the voter rolls making it harder to cheat by assigning their names to mail in ballots.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and other officials shall not “take any action to implement or enforce H.B. 2243 in a manner that would remove any voter’s eligibility to vote in the 2022 general election or disqualify any otherwise-valid ballot on the basis of H.B. 2243,” U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, said in the Sept. 8 orderThe officials and the coalition, which sued over the bill in August, agreed that “the provisions of H.B. 2243 should not operate in a manner that would prevent any voter from (1) voting in the upcoming November 2022 general election or (2) having their vote be counted.” Hobbs and Brnovich also decided that the changes to the state election code shouldn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2023, because one of the laws the bill is amending is not effective itself until then.”
