Judge Orders Arizona’s Cochise County To Certify Election Results

An Arizona county’s board of supervisors certified their jurisdiction’s midterm elections results on Thursday at the order of a judge three days after they missed the statutory deadline of Nov. 28.

Judge Casey McGinley of the Pima County Superior Court instructed Cochise County’s board of supervisors to convene and declare the results official by 5 p.m. MT on Thursday.

McGinley ruled that the failure of two Republican supervisors to certify the results before the state’s legal deadline was illegal.

On Monday, the lone Democrat on the three-person panel, supervisor Anne English, voted against the motion to postpone the results, while Republican supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby voted to postpone.

Following the certification on Thursday, state officials in Arizona will now be able to proceed with statewide certification on Monday after the board voted 2–0 to certify the outcomes of the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

English and Judd cast the deciding votes to certify, with Republican Tom Crosby abstaining from the court-ordered hearing.

Cochise County’s Board of Supervisors sought to push back certifying the results in order to further review claims that the county’s voting equipment was not properly certified in accordance with the law.

According to election officials, the machinery was properly approved.

Cochise County, which borders Mexico, has always been a bastion of Republican and conservative voters.

Hobbs Sues Cochise Board

After the two Republican members of the board voted to delay certification, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who was declared the victor of the state’s governor contest, sued Cochise County earlier this week.

Cochise County “had a statutory duty to certify the results of the 2022 General Election” by Nov. 28., Hobbs said on Twitter, where she shared screenshots of the lawsuit.

According to Hobb’s lawsuit, failure to certify the results before Dec. 1 will “sow greater confusion and doubt about the integrity of Arizona’s election system” and asked the court to issue an injunction compelling officials to do so.

“The Board’s inaction not only violates the plain language of the statute but also undermines a basic tenet of free and fair elections in this state: ensuring that every Arizonan’s voice is heard,” the lawsuit (pdf) reads.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-orders-arizonas-cochise-county-certify-election-results

FLASHBACK: NPR called verified Hunter Biden story a 'waste of time'

"We don't want to waste out time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the readers' or listeners' time on stories that are purely distractions."

"Journalism twitter is rough today," while Elon Musk released "the Twitter files," documents revealing the extent the social media giant censored stories, namely bombshell revelations about Biden family corruption gleaned from Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell." According to NPR, the exposore of political censorhip is a "waste of time."

Journalist Emma-Jo Morris, who broke the story on the contents of the First Son's laptop in the New York Post in October 2020, responded to Folkenflik and said, "tonight reminds me of the time when i published the laptop from hell that you said i couldn't be a journalist because i worked at fox news when i was 23, david."

https://thepostmillennial.com/flashback-npr-called-verified-hunter-biden-story-a-waste-of-time

GOP Flips California House Seat – Majority Expands

Republicans got some more good news out of California.

Republican John Duarte just flipped a House seat.

Duarte narrowly beat Adam Gray 50.2% to $49.8% – Adam Gray has conceded.

The district has not elected a Republican since 1974 – Democrats outnumber Republicans 42% to 24% in the district.

The Epoch Times reported:

Republicans have flipped a U.S. House of Representatives seat representing a central California district, expanding their majority in the next Congress.

Farmer and businessman John Duarte, a Republican, declared victory on Dec. 2.

“I promised our Valley families that I would be their bipartisan champion in Washington, D.C. by fighting for food on our tables, gas in our tanks, and water on our farms. That is exactly what I am going to go there to do,” Duarte said in a statement.

California Assemblyman Adam Gray, a Democrat, conceded.

The GOP now has 221 seats in the House to the Democrats 213.

KRCA reported:

This race was California’s closest Congressional race and one of two Congressional races that had still be undecided in the country. With Duarte’s win, Republicans control 221 seats in the Lower House while Democrats hold 213.

Only one House race remains undetermined from the 2022 midterm elections – that is Lauren Boebert’s seat in Colorado.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/gop-flips-california-house-seat-majority-expands/

rench President Emmanuel Macron met with Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk as part of his visit to the United States this week.

According to reports, Musk and Macron spoke for about an hour about topics including green energy and social media moderation and regulations.

“In accordance with our ambition to decarbonize and reindustrialize France and Europe, I discussed today with @elonmusk on future green industrial projects, in particular on the manufacture of electric vehicles and batteries,” Macron tweeted, according to a translation.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/elon-musk-meets-french-president-emmanuel-macron-social-media-regulations/