old story aboutStephen Richer.
he did an audit on a guy, then ran against the guy, then barely won the race against the guy.
The audit he conducted contained unsubstantiated facts, i.e,conspiracy theories
He won by just 0.03%. IN fact, his winning votes didn't come in untilSATURDAY…..Hmmmmmmm…
interesting story
https://www.azmirror.com/blog/independent-audit-lawyer-challenging-fontes-for-recorder/
‘Independent audit’ lawyer challenging Fontes for recorder
By Jeremy Duda-April 2, 2019
Stephen Richer, the Republican attorney who authored an “independent audit” of Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes commissioned by the Arizona Republican Party that leveled several unsubstantiated allegations against him, is now seeking the office himself.
Richer announced on Tuesday that he’s running for county recorder. If he wins the Republican nomination, he’ll go head to head against the Democratic incumbent he skewered in an audit of the 2018 general election that the Arizona Republican Party commissioned.
The preliminary audit aired several unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and baseless allegations of election fraud and partisanship on Fontes’s part, some of which didn’t even cite a source or origin for the claims.Though Richer labeled the claims as unsubstantiated, some Republicans portrayed them as established fact.
Richer also questioned some of Fontes’s other election-related actions in his report, such as the expanded use of emergency voting centers in 2018, his placement of those centers, and his new policy of reaching out to voters with potentially deficient signatures on their early ballots. Richer concluded in the audit that those policies were questionable but not illegal.
More substantively, Richer’s campaign website took aim at Fontes over his handling of the 2018 primary election. Sixty-two polling places didn’t open on time at 6 a.m. for the Aug. 28 election. All had opened by 11:33 a.m. An audit commissioned by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors put much of the blame on Fontes for a lack of contingency planning, and issues with staffing and training.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stephen-richer-unseats-maricopa-county-recorder-adrian-fontes-for-key-election-post/ar-BB1aX2Ny