“If we don’t think about the past, you’ll never win again in the future.”
Donald J. Trump. September 25, 2021, Perry, GA
At a rally in Perry, Georgia, on September 25th, President Trump spoke about the Arizona audit. He spoke about the ballots received outside of Maricopa (23,344), the duplicates (17,322), voters in multiple counties (10,342), duplicates received after election day (4,330), ballots with no signature (1,919), deceased voters (282), deleted files and compromised routers (see VIDEO). Arizona spent over 100,000 staff hours processing 2.1 million ballots by hand. There is an unprecedented number of discrepancies in the vote total. There is a draft report that states “the election should not be certified, and the reported results are not reliable.” The final report does NOT state that. My take-aways from the 3-hour hearings are: (1) Joe Biden won the state of Arizona if you count ONLY the ballots, (2) because the envelopes and the ballots are separated, there is no way to remove the ballots that were found to be duplicates/irregular/deceased votes and recalculate the vote count, (3) based on #2, it is possible that President Trump could have overcome the approximate 11,000 vote deficit, but we will never know, (4) someone was messing around with the machines, and (5) there was some potentially illegal activity in Maricopa County Elections. Now that may sound simple to you, but there was a lot of data there and this is how I wrapped my head around it. I concluded with these thoughts: thank you Senate President Karen Fann for not giving up; AG Brnovich you have some work to do; and Arizona 54th Legislature, you need to step up and fix these discrepancies. As Chairman, I will be reorganizing our Election Integrity Task Force with a new vision and mission to move forward. Additionally, there is no reason to believe that Maricopa County is unique. Finally, I believe an audit of Pima County should be conducted.
We had a win last week at the Pima County Board of Supervisors (BoS). Precinct realignment was voted down. A special thank you to Supervisor Steve Christy (District 4) for his support in this initiative. We did however, lose a Judicial District which has a significant impact on a “minority majority” in the County—Republicans. We will continue to work on that moving forward. We are preparing for the Independent Redistricting Commission meeting on Wednesday, September 29 (see below) and look forward to seeing all of you there. This is a big week for us—moving to our new office, IRC, Sidekick Training, Citizen Lobbyist Training, National Voter Registration Day—and we need all hands on deck. Beginning October 6 we will need to start chasing City of Tucson election ballots to make sure all Republican ballots are returned. If you are a PCINO (Precinct Committeeman in Name Only) you will need to get involved or move aside. We are in the campaign season with amazing candidates from U.S. Senate on down the ballot. The party must be working together to win. If you are interested in winning, join me.