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On cross-examination, a witness concedes to being the business partner of the Trump campaign's lawyer in today's proceedings.
Pictured on the left:
The Trump campaign's previous witness in today's Arizona proceedings.
Pictured on the right:
The Trump campaign's lawyer in Arizona's proceedings.
Their business website: https://signafide.com/about.html
The Trump campaign's previous witness in today's Arizona proceedings.
Pictured on the right:
The Trump campaign's lawyer in Arizona's proceedings.
Their business website: https://signafide.com/about.html
Up now is the Trump campaign's Arizona State Elections Day Operations Director Gina Swoboda.
From her affidavit: https://www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=1552
From her affidavit: https://www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=1552
Swoboda is also an apparent Sharpiegater, attesting to a conspiracy theory that has been debunked by officials' testimony and abandoned by the Trump campaign's own lawyer who now claims it's not not to their case.
(It's in their complaint and all over the affidavits.)
(It's in their complaint and all over the affidavits.)
Swoboda concedes that she did not raise any issues with poll workers on election day with Arizona's secretary of state.
Q: Do you have any knowledge of about whether Trump supporters' votes weren't counted.
Swoboda says she has knowledge of voters' "beliefs" that this happened but she has "no way of knowing" whether those believes were true.
"I don't know whether they were counted or not."
Swoboda says she has knowledge of voters' "beliefs" that this happened but she has "no way of knowing" whether those believes were true.
"I don't know whether they were counted or not."
Ms. Swoboda is excused.
"Thank you, sir. Thank you everybody."
"Thank you, sir. Thank you everybody."
Trump campaign's lawyer Kory Langhofer again says their case is a modest claim about the procedure.
"I don't think anyone's acting with mal-intent," Langhofer says in closing arguments.
"I don't think anyone's acting with mal-intent," Langhofer says in closing arguments.
Roopali H. Desai, counsel for Arizona's Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, is now up debunking another myth about the supposedly sinister ramifications of a green button.
"Pressing the green button means the ballot is cast, not rejected."
"Pressing the green button means the ballot is cast, not rejected."
Desai notes that no witnesses testified that they overvoted.
In fact, they testified to the opposite.
In fact, they testified to the opposite.
Desai: The Trump campaign and Arizona GOP have not established widespread irregularities.
"The natural consequence of an election is someone wins and someone loses," she says, adding that the court system cannot become a forum for "ad-hoc" procedures to address grievances.
"The natural consequence of an election is someone wins and someone loses," she says, adding that the court system cannot become a forum for "ad-hoc" procedures to address grievances.
Judge notes that the universe of Arizona overvotes is 961 ballots.
Of those, only 191 ballots relate to the presidential election.
The judge says the plaintiffs now ask for those 191 ballots be manually reviewed, if overvotes exceed margin of victory.
(My note: They don't.)
Of those, only 191 ballots relate to the presidential election.
The judge says the plaintiffs now ask for those 191 ballots be manually reviewed, if overvotes exceed margin of victory.
(My note: They don't.)
The county's lawyer's closing arguments talk about the wide gulf behind the rhetoric from the Arizona GOP to the small-bore quibbles they brought to court.
They started with: "Stop the steal."
"Words matter," the county says.
They started with: "Stop the steal."
"Words matter," the county says.
The Arizona GOP claimed to be making a case for "systematic failure" and they fell far short about that standard.
About those 191 overvotes, the county says they've already been calculated.
About those 191 overvotes, the county says they've already been calculated.
Maricopa County's lawyer calls it not only a mathematical than a "metaphysical" impossibility that the small-bore overvote numbers at issue shows the systematic failure being alleged.
Maricopa County's counsel:
"The ballots are as the ballots are, voted by the voters. It's not a good road to go down."
"It's never a good idea" to change the way ballots are counted based on the outcome, he says.
"We would be overriding voters' intent."
"The ballots are as the ballots are, voted by the voters. It's not a good road to go down."
"It's never a good idea" to change the way ballots are counted based on the outcome, he says.
"We would be overriding voters' intent."
(Cont'd)
County's counsel adds the burden is on the plaintiffs the show that the process in Maricopa County systematically broke down.
County's counsel adds the burden is on the plaintiffs the show that the process in Maricopa County systematically broke down.
