https://arizonadailyindependent.com/judge-to-hear-gop-chairs-arguments-about-mail-in-ballot-signature-verification/

While many people in Maricopa County will be focused Monday morning on President Donald Trump’s campaign “fact-finding” visit and Gov. Doug Ducey’s participation in the certification of Arizona’s election results, the head of the Republican Party of Arizona will be appearing before a judge in hopes of obtaining a court order awarding the state’s 11 electoral votes to Trump instead of Joe Biden.

Last week GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward announced her intention to challenge the certification of Arizona’s 2020 general election results slated to occur this week. State law doesn’t permit the lawsuit to be filed until then, but at 10:30 am Monday a Maricopa County judge will consider Ward’s request to begin discovery immediately because all challenges must be finalized by Dec 8.

Although Ward did not use the word fraud in announcing her planned challenge, she stated there is “a real lack of trust in the administration of this election” as the result of “countless voting irregularities, as well as failures in the crucial processes” of the election process.

If successful, her case could do what four before it didn’t – put Arizona’s 11 electoral votes on hold, at least temporarily. That is why Ward’s challenge must name the 11 Democratic presidential electors as defendants, including Jonathan Nex, President of the Navajo Nation; Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo; and Tucson Mayor Regina Romero.

However, Ward first has to convince Judge Randall Warner that there is actual evidence, not just supposition, that the process used by Arizona’s 15 counties to verify the signature on a mail-in or dropped off ballot “was legally insufficient” and that “no political party was provided a meaningful way to independently monitor the signature verification process for these ballots.”