True The Vote Conducting Massive Clandestine Voter Fraud Investigation | Breitbart
Conservative election integrity group True The Vote has been conducting a months-long massive and clandestine voter fraud investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
A document that the group’s founder Catherine Engelbrecht circulated to prospective donors, obtained by Breitbart News, details several facets of the investigation—which centers on what the group describes as the collection of cell phone GPS ping data in key election hotspots around the country including Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Texas.
“From this we have thus far developed precise patterns of life for 242 suspected ballot traffickers in Georgia and 202 traffickers in Arizona,” True The Vote’s document says. “According to the data, each trafficker went to an average of 23 ballot dropboxes.”
From there, the document continues, True The Vote gathered surveillance video on the drop boxes in Georgia and is attempting to gather similar such surveillance video from other states.
“We are building out video stories and have compiled videos of individuals stuffing ballot dropboxes with stacks of ballots, individuals depositing ballots in multiple dropboxes, unauthorized coordination between government workers engaged in the exchange of ballots, and several other tranches of video that capture unusual patterns such as the wearing of gloves to deposit ballots, taking pictures of ballot deposits, etc.,” True The Vote’s document says.
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Conservative election integrity group True The Vote has been conducting a months-long massive and clandestine voter fraud investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
A document that the group’s founder Catherine Engelbrecht circulated to prospective donors, obtained by Breitbart News, details several facets of the investigation—which centers on what the group describes as the collection of cell phone GPS ping data in key election hotspots around the country including Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Texas.
“From this we have thus far developed precise patterns of life for 242 suspected ballot traffickers in Georgia and 202 traffickers in Arizona,” True The Vote’s document says. “According to the data, each trafficker went to an average of 23 ballot dropboxes.”
From there, the document continues, True The Vote gathered surveillance video on the drop boxes in Georgia and is attempting to gather similar such surveillance video from other states.
“We are building out video stories and have compiled videos of individuals stuffing ballot dropboxes with stacks of ballots, individuals depositing ballots in multiple dropboxes, unauthorized coordination between government workers engaged in the exchange of ballots, and several other tranches of video that capture unusual patterns such as the wearing of gloves to deposit ballots, taking pictures of ballot deposits, etc.,” True The Vote’s document says.
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True The Vote Conducting Massive Clandestine Voter Fraud Investigation
Election integrity group True The Vote has been conducting a months-long massive and clandestine voter fraud investigation into 2020.
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VoterGA Files Suit to Ban Illegal Dominion Voting System in GA
Voting System Already Declared in Violation of Georgia Law
ATLANTA, August 24, 2021 – VoterGA today announced [it is] joining with State Rep. Philip Singleton in a legal petition to ban Georgia’s Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 voting system. The voting system has already been declared in violation of Georgia law by the U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia [Pg. 81-82].
Georgia law requires a voting system to “print an elector verifiable paper ballot;” and “…produce paper ballots which are marked with the elector’s choices in a format readable by the elector.” After reviewing extensive evidence in the Curling V. Raffensperger case, Judge Amy Totenberg concluded: “Plaintiffs and other voters who wish to vote in-person are required to vote on a system that does none of those things.” [O.C.G.A. § 21-2-2(7.1); O.C.G.A. § 21-2-300(a)(2)]
Petition Seeks Temporary and Permanent Injunctions
The petition seeks temporary and permanent injunctions against the state’s use of the new voting system on grounds that its unverifiability to the voter makes it illegal. The Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 system uses a touchscreen Ballot Marking Device (BMD) to print voter selections with a QR code on a sheet of paper. The scanners ignore the printed voter selections and read the QR code to determine candidates selected and to tabulate election results. The QR code is not human readable, even with a QR code reader and is thus illegal under Georgia law.
Attorney Todd Harding of Maddox and Harding filed the petition in Fulton County Superior Court. Harding is also representing VoterGA petitioners in the Fulton County Ballot Inspection lawsuit. Details of both cases can be found on the VoterGA.org. Legal tab.
Petition Highlights
The petition contends that recommendations provided by VoterGA to the Secure, Accurate, Fair Election Commission (SAFE) warned that any new system must tabulate human readable vote marks that can be verified by the voter. It also contends that VoterGA co-founder Garland Favorito and Madison Forum President Michael Opitz warned Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about the unverifiability of QR coded voting systems like the Democracy Suite when he was a runoff candidate in 2018. Raffensperger did not heed the warnings and purchased the new Dominion system for over $100 million in 2019.
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Voting System Already Declared in Violation of Georgia Law
ATLANTA, August 24, 2021 – VoterGA today announced [it is] joining with State Rep. Philip Singleton in a legal petition to ban Georgia’s Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 voting system. The voting system has already been declared in violation of Georgia law by the U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia [Pg. 81-82].
Georgia law requires a voting system to “print an elector verifiable paper ballot;” and “…produce paper ballots which are marked with the elector’s choices in a format readable by the elector.” After reviewing extensive evidence in the Curling V. Raffensperger case, Judge Amy Totenberg concluded: “Plaintiffs and other voters who wish to vote in-person are required to vote on a system that does none of those things.” [O.C.G.A. § 21-2-2(7.1); O.C.G.A. § 21-2-300(a)(2)]
Petition Seeks Temporary and Permanent Injunctions
The petition seeks temporary and permanent injunctions against the state’s use of the new voting system on grounds that its unverifiability to the voter makes it illegal. The Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 system uses a touchscreen Ballot Marking Device (BMD) to print voter selections with a QR code on a sheet of paper. The scanners ignore the printed voter selections and read the QR code to determine candidates selected and to tabulate election results. The QR code is not human readable, even with a QR code reader and is thus illegal under Georgia law.
Attorney Todd Harding of Maddox and Harding filed the petition in Fulton County Superior Court. Harding is also representing VoterGA petitioners in the Fulton County Ballot Inspection lawsuit. Details of both cases can be found on the VoterGA.org. Legal tab.
Petition Highlights
The petition contends that recommendations provided by VoterGA to the Secure, Accurate, Fair Election Commission (SAFE) warned that any new system must tabulate human readable vote marks that can be verified by the voter. It also contends that VoterGA co-founder Garland Favorito and Madison Forum President Michael Opitz warned Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about the unverifiability of QR coded voting systems like the Democracy Suite when he was a runoff candidate in 2018. Raffensperger did not heed the warnings and purchased the new Dominion system for over $100 million in 2019.
Read 👓📑 VoterGA Petition
Source: CD Media
Support: VoterGA.org
More 🔎🧵 Last GA Update
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HELP NEEDED! ❤️ Great News!❤️ (Greater Phoenix Area)
EZAZ.org has acquired 362 chairs and 53 tables for us to accommodate our regular events and trainings in a convenient and consistent location!
If you have a truck and trailer that you could help us to move the items into the space before Friday at 3pm, please text me at 480-374-0102!
Our goal is to train 5,000 activists by the next election. We are super excited for this opportunity to save Arizona ❤️🇺🇸 🗽 🙏
EZAZ.org has acquired 362 chairs and 53 tables for us to accommodate our regular events and trainings in a convenient and consistent location!
If you have a truck and trailer that you could help us to move the items into the space before Friday at 3pm, please text me at 480-374-0102!
Our goal is to train 5,000 activists by the next election. We are super excited for this opportunity to save Arizona ❤️🇺🇸 🗽 🙏
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Fann Makes Plans For Audit Of Voter Affidavit Signatures On Some Of Maricopa County’s 1.9M Early Ballots – Arizona Daily Independent
Fann told Arizona Daily Independent she was interviewing a potential contractor to audit another aspect of Maricopa County’s election process – how employees verified voter signatures on the nearly 1.9 million early ballot affidavit envelopes turned in during the election.
Those signatures must be verified before the ballot inside can be sent for tabulation, but questions have been raised about the procedures utilized by then-County Recorder Adrian Fontes and his staff question while conducting those verifications.
Fann says whoever she hires to review the procedures and the signatures will start by looking for envelopes which do not contain the required voter signature. There will also be a review for unidentifiable signatures -what Fann’s calls “scribbles”- which can be matched up against Maricopa County’s voter database, which includes images of all prior signatures used by a voter during an election.
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2021/08/24/fann-makes-plans-for-audit-of-voter-affidavit-signatures-on-some-of-maricopa-countys-1-9m-early-ballots/
Fann told Arizona Daily Independent she was interviewing a potential contractor to audit another aspect of Maricopa County’s election process – how employees verified voter signatures on the nearly 1.9 million early ballot affidavit envelopes turned in during the election.
Those signatures must be verified before the ballot inside can be sent for tabulation, but questions have been raised about the procedures utilized by then-County Recorder Adrian Fontes and his staff question while conducting those verifications.
Fann says whoever she hires to review the procedures and the signatures will start by looking for envelopes which do not contain the required voter signature. There will also be a review for unidentifiable signatures -what Fann’s calls “scribbles”- which can be matched up against Maricopa County’s voter database, which includes images of all prior signatures used by a voter during an election.
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2021/08/24/fann-makes-plans-for-audit-of-voter-affidavit-signatures-on-some-of-maricopa-countys-1-9m-early-ballots/
Arizona Daily Independent
Fann Makes Plans For Audit Of Voter Affidavit Signatures On Some Of Maricopa County’s 1.9M Early Ballots
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann wanted an audit to ascertain how Maricopa County handled the 2020 General Election, but she never expected the Senate would be doing it without the assistance of...
DePerno Issues Legal Opinion Re State Legislature’s Authority to Recall Electors
The following is a legal opinion submitted to AZ State Senator Wendy Rogers by attorney Matt DePerno in response to her question: “Can a State Legislature recall the state electors to decertify a national election upon proof of fraud in the election?”
DePerno concludes that “The Answer is ‘Yes.’ […] A legislature’s determination to decertify the votes cast by the electors on demonstration of fraud in the election itself is nothing more than the Legislature’s use of its reserved sovereign powers under the Tenth Amendment to protect those fundamental rights and privileges reserved to the People by the Ninth Amendment.”
Read 👓📑 Preliminary Memo
H/t🤠 @WendyRogersAZ
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The following is a legal opinion submitted to AZ State Senator Wendy Rogers by attorney Matt DePerno in response to her question: “Can a State Legislature recall the state electors to decertify a national election upon proof of fraud in the election?”
DePerno concludes that “The Answer is ‘Yes.’ […] A legislature’s determination to decertify the votes cast by the electors on demonstration of fraud in the election itself is nothing more than the Legislature’s use of its reserved sovereign powers under the Tenth Amendment to protect those fundamental rights and privileges reserved to the People by the Ninth Amendment.”
Read 👓📑 Preliminary Memo
H/t🤠 @WendyRogersAZ
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AG Brnovich: Maricopa County Must Comply with Senate’s Legislative Subpoena or Forfeit State Funds | Brnovich Press Release
Thursday, August 26, 2021
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that his office (AGO) determined the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) is in violation of state law for failing to comply with the Arizona Senate’s legislative subpoena related to the 2020 election audit. If MCBOS does not change course, the AGO will notify the Arizona Treasurer to withhold Maricopa County’s state-shared funds as required under the law.
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The Arizona Audit of the 2020 election is still underway. At this time, the AGO has not received any official report related to the Senate’s audit, but stands ready to review the official findings and any information submitted after a final report is completed by the Senate.
Copy of AGO 1487 Report here.
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Thursday, August 26, 2021
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that his office (AGO) determined the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) is in violation of state law for failing to comply with the Arizona Senate’s legislative subpoena related to the 2020 election audit. If MCBOS does not change course, the AGO will notify the Arizona Treasurer to withhold Maricopa County’s state-shared funds as required under the law.
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The Arizona Audit of the 2020 election is still underway. At this time, the AGO has not received any official report related to the Senate’s audit, but stands ready to review the official findings and any information submitted after a final report is completed by the Senate.
Copy of AGO 1487 Report here.
Read 👓📃 Brnovich Press Release
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Rep. Mark Finchem: Cost of Audit Should Be Billed to Maricopa County
“I am pleased to see that the Arizona Attorney General has reinforced the rule of law and is compelling a lawless political subdivision to do what it promised to do on December 14, 2020. In fact, I am of the opinion that the entire cost of the audit should be billed back to the county for the delays and legal hoops that the Senate has had to go through just to do its job.”
- Mark Finchem
More 🔎🧵 Brnovich Press Release
“I am pleased to see that the Arizona Attorney General has reinforced the rule of law and is compelling a lawless political subdivision to do what it promised to do on December 14, 2020. In fact, I am of the opinion that the entire cost of the audit should be billed back to the county for the delays and legal hoops that the Senate has had to go through just to do its job.”
- Mark Finchem
More 🔎🧵 Brnovich Press Release
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ARIZONA, I NEED YOUR HELP!
It's time to qualify for the 2022 ballot! Please take a minute and visit the link below to sign my nominating petition.
I fought hard for you during the 2021 legislative session and together we achieved some GREAT legislative victories.
I will always fight hard for you! 🇺🇸
Please take a minute and sign my petition if you can!
OFFICIAL NOMINATING PETITION
👉 https://go.azsos.gov/q9n7
P.S. While you're there I hope you'll sign EVERY constitutional conservative Republican's petition too!
It's time to qualify for the 2022 ballot! Please take a minute and visit the link below to sign my nominating petition.
I fought hard for you during the 2021 legislative session and together we achieved some GREAT legislative victories.
I will always fight hard for you! 🇺🇸
Please take a minute and sign my petition if you can!
OFFICIAL NOMINATING PETITION
👉 https://go.azsos.gov/q9n7
P.S. While you're there I hope you'll sign EVERY constitutional conservative Republican's petition too!
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Arizona makes the list of 19 "welcoming" States for Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans and Iraqis
The State Department has identified 19 “welcoming” communities where Afghans and Iraqis could settle based on a number of measures, including but not limited to housing availability. - Aaron Carr
The State Department list (Pic 2) appears to be alphabetical.
H/T @LibertyOverwatch & @ArizonaConservatives
The State Department has identified 19 “welcoming” communities where Afghans and Iraqis could settle based on a number of measures, including but not limited to housing availability. - Aaron Carr
The State Department list (Pic 2) appears to be alphabetical.
H/T @LibertyOverwatch & @ArizonaConservatives
Forwarded from Merissa Caldwell
Join us on Thursday for a Grassroots LD28 Meet & Greet with Special Guest Shawnna LM Bolick speaking! We are so excited to activate LD28! We need all hands on deck to make it happen!
RSVP for Address at AZLD28GOP.com.
RSVP for Address at AZLD28GOP.com.
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Let’s have some fun!
When the Arizona Audit Report come out, how many ballots will be considered fraudulent/ illegal/ unable to be counted in the 2020 election? (Out of 2.1 Million Ballots)
When the Arizona Audit Report come out, how many ballots will be considered fraudulent/ illegal/ unable to be counted in the 2020 election? (Out of 2.1 Million Ballots)
Anonymous Poll
1%
0-999 ballots
0%
1000-10,000 ballots
1%
10,000 - 25,000 ballots
2%
25,000- 50,000 ballots
3%
50,000-75,000 ballots
5%
75,000- 100,000 ballots
7%
100,000-125,000 ballots
6%
125,000- 150,000 ballots
75%
More than 150,000 ballots
Forwarded from Senator Kelly Townsend
We are going to be given an update tomorrow morning I believe and I am hoping to be able to bring you good news regarding the audit. Please stand by.
Forwarded from Arizona Blade Channel
#AZAudit The Senate (R) Caucus will be having closed a Zoom meeting tomorrow morning regarding an update on the Audit. I'll post any updates depending upon what Senators are able to tell us.
Current reporting is that the Report is coming in 3 sections. - Jellenne ❤🇺🇲
Telegram Channel: @JellenneAZ
Current reporting is that the Report is coming in 3 sections. - Jellenne ❤🇺🇲
Telegram Channel: @JellenneAZ
Maricopa County Still Has Not Responded to Senate FOIA Request for Communications
While the AZ Senate has handed over 20K documents in compliance with the Soros/Clinton American Oversight lawsuit, Maricopa County, once again, decides it’s above the law.
Review 👓📑 Senate Records Released to American Oversight
Tweet: Senate President Karen Fann
While the AZ Senate has handed over 20K documents in compliance with the Soros/Clinton American Oversight lawsuit, Maricopa County, once again, decides it’s above the law.
Review 👓📑 Senate Records Released to American Oversight
Tweet: Senate President Karen Fann
Forwarded from Senator Kelly Townsend
Okay, please don't shoot the messenger. The good news is, our auditors are successfully recovering from covid and are back at work preparing the report. As for the report, I am glad to hear that at least it will be produced within the next week or two. From that point, the Judiciary committee will meet and will go over everything with a fine-tooth comb. I will keep everyone posted to the extent I am able to disclose information. We are moving forward.
Forwarded from Praying Medic (Dave Hayes)
The draft audit report is not yet complete. It appears it will take a few more weeks. It will then take a couple more weeks for the Senate to review the draft report for factual accuracy and make clarifications. That puts the release of the final audit report somewhere near the end of September.
You can be disappointed and angry, or you can be grateful that we've been given more time to prepare for the chaos that will follow the release of the report.
You can be disappointed and angry, or you can be grateful that we've been given more time to prepare for the chaos that will follow the release of the report.
Deplorables Organize to Seize Control of the GOP and Reshape America’s Elections
Pravda ProPublica contacted GOP leaders in 65 key counties, and 41 reported an unusual increase in signups since Steve Bannon’s precinct committeeman campaign began. At least 8,500 new Republican precinct officers (or equivalent lowest-level officials) joined those county parties. We also looked at equivalent Democratic posts and found no similar surge.
“I’ve never seen anything like this, people are coming out of the woodwork,” said J.C. Martin, the GOP chairman in Polk County, Florida, who has added 50 new committee members since January. Martin had wanted congressional Republicans to overturn the election on Jan. 6, and he welcomed this wave of like-minded newcomers. “The most recent time we saw this type of thing was the tea party, and this is way beyond it.”
Tarrant County has added 61 precinct chairs this year, about a 24% increase since February. “Those podcasts actually paid off,” Fort Worth, county chair Rick Barnes said.
For weeks, about five people a day called to become precinct chairs in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, southwest of Green Bay. Albert, the county party chair, said he would explain that Wisconsin has no precinct chairs, but newcomers could join the county party — and then become poll workers.
What’s different this time is an uncompromising focus on elections themselves. The new movement is built entirely around Trump’s insistence that the electoral system failed in 2020 and that Republicans can’t let it happen again. The result is a nationwide groundswell of party activists whose central goal is not merely to win elections but to reshape their machinery.
“We can take over the party if we invade it,” PrecinctStrategy.com founder, Dan Schultz said. “I can’t guarantee you that we’ll save the republic, but I can guarantee you this: We’ll lose it if we conservatives don’t take over the Republican Party.”
Bannon endorsed Schultz’s plan, telling “all the unwashed masses in the MAGA movement, the deplorables” to take up this cause.
Read 👓🗞 Dem Media
Hat tip🤠 @the_Library_II
Watch 📺 War Room
More 🔎🧵 Become a Precinct Committeeman
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Pravda ProPublica contacted GOP leaders in 65 key counties, and 41 reported an unusual increase in signups since Steve Bannon’s precinct committeeman campaign began. At least 8,500 new Republican precinct officers (or equivalent lowest-level officials) joined those county parties. We also looked at equivalent Democratic posts and found no similar surge.
“I’ve never seen anything like this, people are coming out of the woodwork,” said J.C. Martin, the GOP chairman in Polk County, Florida, who has added 50 new committee members since January. Martin had wanted congressional Republicans to overturn the election on Jan. 6, and he welcomed this wave of like-minded newcomers. “The most recent time we saw this type of thing was the tea party, and this is way beyond it.”
Tarrant County has added 61 precinct chairs this year, about a 24% increase since February. “Those podcasts actually paid off,” Fort Worth, county chair Rick Barnes said.
For weeks, about five people a day called to become precinct chairs in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, southwest of Green Bay. Albert, the county party chair, said he would explain that Wisconsin has no precinct chairs, but newcomers could join the county party — and then become poll workers.
What’s different this time is an uncompromising focus on elections themselves. The new movement is built entirely around Trump’s insistence that the electoral system failed in 2020 and that Republicans can’t let it happen again. The result is a nationwide groundswell of party activists whose central goal is not merely to win elections but to reshape their machinery.
“We can take over the party if we invade it,” PrecinctStrategy.com founder, Dan Schultz said. “I can’t guarantee you that we’ll save the republic, but I can guarantee you this: We’ll lose it if we conservatives don’t take over the Republican Party.”
Bannon endorsed Schultz’s plan, telling “all the unwashed masses in the MAGA movement, the deplorables” to take up this cause.
Read 👓🗞 Dem Media
Hat tip🤠 @the_Library_II
Watch 📺 War Room
More 🔎🧵 Become a Precinct Committeeman
@LibertyOverwatchChannel
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ProPublica
Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America’s Elections
The stolen election myth inspired thousands of Trump supporters to take over the Republican Party at the local level, exerting more partisan influence on how elections are run.
Forwarded from Arizona Blade Channel
On August 21st the Arizona Secretary of State's Office released the draft 2021 Election Procedures Manual. Public comment can be submitted by email before 5 p.m.MT, September 8th, 2021.
Below is the August 21st Secretary of State's press release. Please note that the virtual meetings have already occurred. We are posting the entire press release:
2021 Elections Procedures Manual draft released for public comment
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Friday, August 13, 2021
PHOENIX – The Secretary of State's Office has released the 2021 Elections Procedures Manual draft for public comment on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The manual helps ensure election practices are consistent and efficient throughout the state.
Arizonans can review the draft at https://azsos.gov/node/1015 and send feedback by email to [email protected](link sends e-mail) by 5 p.m. on Sept. 8, 2021.
"The public comment period allows Arizonans to provide their insight and feedback into our state's election processes," Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said. "We encourage the public to submit their recommendations to our office before the deadline."
In addition to accepting written comments, the Secretary of State's Office will hold two virtual public meetings via Zoom on the following days:
What: Elections Procedures Manual Virtual Town Hall
When: Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, 9am – 11am
Register here: https://bit.ly/3lIm4Rk(link is external)
What: Elections Procedures Manual Virtual Town Hall
When: Thurs, Sept. 2, 2021, 5:30pm – 7:30 pm
Register here: https://bit.ly/3AmO7K2(link is external)
The current version of the draft incorporates legislative and other updates, including input from election officials from all of Arizona's 15 counties.
"The Arizona Secretary of State's Office works closely with county election officials during the entire process. The counties work directly with their communities, which is why their involvement was crucial from start to finish," Hobbs said.
After the public comment period closes, the Secretary of State's Office will review all submissions and may follow up with people regarding their feedback. The Secretary of State's Office will incorporate any necessary changes in response to the public comments and again work with the counties to finalize the draft for submission to the governor and attorney general.
State law requires the Secretary of State Submit an updated Elections Procedures Manual to the governor and attorney general for review by Oct. 1 of every odd-numbered year. The governor and attorney must review and approve the draft by Dec. 31.
Below is the August 21st Secretary of State's press release. Please note that the virtual meetings have already occurred. We are posting the entire press release:
2021 Elections Procedures Manual draft released for public comment
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Friday, August 13, 2021
PHOENIX – The Secretary of State's Office has released the 2021 Elections Procedures Manual draft for public comment on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The manual helps ensure election practices are consistent and efficient throughout the state.
Arizonans can review the draft at https://azsos.gov/node/1015 and send feedback by email to [email protected](link sends e-mail) by 5 p.m. on Sept. 8, 2021.
"The public comment period allows Arizonans to provide their insight and feedback into our state's election processes," Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said. "We encourage the public to submit their recommendations to our office before the deadline."
In addition to accepting written comments, the Secretary of State's Office will hold two virtual public meetings via Zoom on the following days:
What: Elections Procedures Manual Virtual Town Hall
When: Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, 9am – 11am
Register here: https://bit.ly/3lIm4Rk(link is external)
What: Elections Procedures Manual Virtual Town Hall
When: Thurs, Sept. 2, 2021, 5:30pm – 7:30 pm
Register here: https://bit.ly/3AmO7K2(link is external)
The current version of the draft incorporates legislative and other updates, including input from election officials from all of Arizona's 15 counties.
"The Arizona Secretary of State's Office works closely with county election officials during the entire process. The counties work directly with their communities, which is why their involvement was crucial from start to finish," Hobbs said.
After the public comment period closes, the Secretary of State's Office will review all submissions and may follow up with people regarding their feedback. The Secretary of State's Office will incorporate any necessary changes in response to the public comments and again work with the counties to finalize the draft for submission to the governor and attorney general.
State law requires the Secretary of State Submit an updated Elections Procedures Manual to the governor and attorney general for review by Oct. 1 of every odd-numbered year. The governor and attorney must review and approve the draft by Dec. 31.