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The lawsuit filed last Saturday alleges that after the counting machine refused to accept some ballots due to defects or irregularities, voting staff told voters to press the green button to cast their ballots. It should be excluded.
One of the so-called bad votes refers to overvotes, that is, the number of candidates selected by the voters in a given election exceeds the allowed number. This usually happens when there are messy ink stains or marks on the ballot.
The lawsuit was filed against the Arizona secretary of state and other state government officials, requiring the court to order elections officials to postpone the certification of ballot counting results until the review of ballots containing excess is completed. obvious feedback or other flaws.
On Friday, the Trump campaign filed a motion with the court, telling the court there is no need to intervene in the campaign’s lawsuit.
The document reads: “Since the hearing ended yesterday, the statewide voting statistics have made this judicial decision on the presidential election unnecessary.”
But at the same time, Friday’s document added two no-vote judgments (no vote or auxiliary vote) that still seek rulings in the lawsuit.
Attorneys for the Arizona Secretary of State submitted a “Notice Regarding Ballot Counting” to the court on Friday, saying the data nullified allegations made by the Republican National Committee and the campaign team.
The data shows that at the time of filing the documents, only 191 votes were confirmed as excessive in the presidential elections.
The office of Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobb did not immediately respond to the Epoch Times request for comment.
Previously, the Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes and other state officials, demanding limited manual vote count audits by district rather than polling place.
According to the Secretary of State’s instruction manual, election officials are required to conduct a limited manual vote-counting audit after each general election.
For the 2020 elections, Maricopa County has established “voting centers” in various locations, rather than assigning voters to “voting centers” in their respective constituencies, as was traditionally used in previous elections.
The difference between the voting center and the electoral district is that their number is greatly reduced.
The Arizona Republican Party wrote in a press release: “There is a fundamental difference between“ voting centers ”and“ electoral districts. ”Most notably, there were only about 175 voting centers in this election, but there were 748. Constituency.”
The Arizona Republican Party believes that manual vote counting according to electoral districts “can make ballot sampling more accurate.”
Tom Ozimek also contributed to this article.
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