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And people laugh at the GOP when they say there's election fraud.
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rizona officials who refused to canvass election results indicted by grand jury
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PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in a rural Arizona county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been criminally charged, the state's top prosecutor said Wednesday.
A grand jury in Maricopa County Superior Court has indicted Cochise County supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby on one count each of conspiracy and interference of an election officer.
“The repeated attempts to undermine our democracy are unacceptable,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. “I took an oath to uphold the rule of law, and my office will continue to enforce Arizona’s elections laws and support our election officials as they carry out the duties and responsibilities of their offices.”
Judd and Crosby did not immediately respond to requests via text and email for comment.
Jane Montgomery, spokesperson for Cochise County, declined to comment. She confirmed both supervisors will be responsible for their own legal representation.
The indictment marks a rare instance of criminally prosecuting people connected to the vote canvassing being dragged out last year in six Arizona counties.
Crosby and Judd said they weren’t satisfied that the machines used to tabulate ballots were properly certified for use in elections. This prompted lawsuits including one from then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat.
They both were subpoenaed to court earlier this month. Ann English, the lone Democrat on the three-member board and the only supervisor to vote for certification, was not subpoenaed or indicted.
At the time, Judd and Crosby told The Associated Press they had no idea why they were being subpoenaed. Crosby was shocked.
“I don’t feel like I broke a law. But, obviously the courts had different feelings,” Judd said.
Last year, election results were certified without issue throughout most of the country. But in Arizona, the six counties hesitated to meet the certification deadline amid pressure from some Republicans. Democrats ended up winning U.S. Senate, governor and other statewide races in what has now become a swing state.
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Republican Attorneys General Attack Voting Rights Act in Latest Amicus Brief
By Madeleine Greenberg
December 11, 2023
WASHINGTON D.C. — Last week, Republican attorneys general from Alabama and 12 other states submitted an amicus brief further escalating Republicans’ ongoing attack on the Voting Rights Act.
The “friend-of-the-court” brief was submitted on behalf of 13
attorneys general — from Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas and West
Virginia — in a case challenging Louisiana’s congressional map.
The Republican attorneys general are supporting Louisiana’s radical
and destructive legal argument that private groups and individuals do
not have the right to file lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In legal terms, this is known as a private right of action.
The brief reads, “Section 2 contains no express private right of
action. And the VRA’s structure confirms that the provision creates no
implied private right of action either.”
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Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case brought by Democrats
By SCOTT BAUER
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities.
The ruling comes less than a year before the 2024 election in a battleground state where four of the six past presidential elections have been decided by fewer than 23,000 votes, and Republicans have built large majorities in the Legislature under maps they drew over a decade ago.
The court ruled 4-3 in favor of Democrats who argued that the legislative maps are unconstitutional because districts drawn aren't contiguous. New maps are likely to be unveiled in about two months.
“Because the current state legislative districts contain separate, detached territory and therefore violate the constitution’s contiguity requirements, we enjoin the Wisconsin Elections Commission from using the current legislative maps in future elections,” Justice Jill Karofksy wrote for the majority.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers hailed the ruling, saying he looked forward to submitting proposed maps for the court to review.
“And I remain as optimistic as ever that, at long last, the gerrymandered maps Wisconsinites have endured for years might soon be history,” he said.
Dan Lenz, an attorney for Law Forward, which brought the lawsuit, called the ruling “a victory for a representative democracy in the state of Wisconsin.”
“For too long, rightwing interests have rigged the rules without any consequences,” he said in a statement. “Gerrymandered maps have distorted the political landscape, stifling the voice of the voters. It challenges the very essence of fair representation and erodes confidence in our political system.”
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called it “a sad day for our state” and suggested it would be appealed, saying the U.S. Supreme Court would have the final say.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court said it will proceed with adopting remedial maps in time for the 2024 election unless the Republican-controlled Legislature can pass maps that Evers will sign. Evers vetoed the current maps.
The court appointed two consultants who already had a hand in reshaping districts in other states.
Jonathan Cervas, of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, redrew New York’s congressional and state Senate maps after a court struck down ones adopted by the Democratic-led Legislature. Bernard Grofman, of the University of California, Irvine, helped redraw Virginia’s federal and state legislative districts after a bipartisan commission deadlocked.
Conservative justices also objected to the hiring of the consultants, saying their selection, the legal authority to appoint them and their responsibilities all raise serious questions.
The maps from parties to the lawsuit are due by Jan. 12, with supporting arguments due 10 days later. Reports from the consultants are due by Feb. 1, with responses a week later. That means the court will release new maps likely sometime in late February or early March unless the Legislature acts first.
The state elections commission has said maps must be in place by March 15 if the new districts are to be in play for the 2024 election.
The lawsuit was filed a day after the court's majority flipped to 4-3 liberal control in August. That's when Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined the court after her April election victory.
Protasiewicz called the GOP-drawn maps “unfair” and “rigged” during her campaign, leading Republicans to threaten to impeach her before she had even heard a case. She sided with the other liberal justices in striking down the current maps.
Vos, who had threatened impeachment the loudest, backed off on Wednesday and said even if she ruled in favor of throwing out the maps, impeachment was “super unlikely.”
Protasiewicz joined with Karosfky and justices Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet in the majority. Conservative justices Annette Ziegler, Rebecca Bradley and Brian Hagedorn dissented.
All of the dissenting justices accused the majority of putting politics above the law.
“This deal was sealed on election night,” Ziegler wrote in her dissent. “Four justices remap Wisconsin even though this constitutional responsibility is to occur every ten years, after a census, by the other two branches of government. The public understands this.”
She accused the majority of “judicial activism on steroids" and said “the court of four takes a wrecking ball to the law.”
Rebecca Bradley, in her dissent, referred to the liberal majority as “handmaidens of the Democratic Party,” saying they “trample the rule of law, dishonor the institution of the judiciary, and undermine democracy.”
Hagedorn called it “a sad turn for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
“Today, the court dives headlong into politics, choosing to wield the power it has while it has it,” he wrote. “Wisconsinites searching for an institution unpolluted by partisan warfare will not find it here.”
Wisconsin’s redistricting ruling comes one day after a federal judicial panel also struck down some of Michigan’s state House and Senate districts and ordered them to be redrawn. The Michigan court said the districts were illegally drawn based on race.
Wisconsin Democrats argued for having all 132 lawmakers stand for election under the new maps, including half of the members of the state Senate who are midway through their four-year terms.
But the court rejected the request from Democrats to invalidate the 2022 results, which would have forced all state Senate seats to be on the 2024 ballot.
In a significant win for Democrats, the court said it would not favor maps that have the least amount of change over existing boundary lines. The previous conservative-controlled court had adopted the “least change” approach for the maps adopted in 2022, which closely resembled the maps Republicans passed in 2011.
The court agreed with Democrats who argued in Wisconsin that the majority of current legislative districts — 54 out of 99 in the Assembly and 21 out of 33 in the Senate — violate the state constitution’s contiguity requirement.
Wisconsin’s redistricting laws, backed up by state and federal court rulings over the past 50 years, have permitted districts under certain circumstances to be noncontiguous, attorneys for the Legislature argued.
The legislative electoral maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011 cemented the party’s majorities, which now stand at 64-35 in the Assembly and a 22-11 supermajority in the Senate.
Litigation is ongoing in more than dozen states over U.S. House and state legislative districts enacted after the 2020 census.
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Associated Press writer David A. Lieb in Jefferson City, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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Federal Judge Rules Right Wing Group’s Mass Voter Challenges Did Not Intimidate Georgia Voters
By Madeleine Greenberg
January 2, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal judge found that
the right-wing group True the Vote’s effort to cancel over 360,000
voter registrations ahead of the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia did
not intimidate voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Today’s decision marks the end of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Fair Fight and Georgia voters that alleged that True the Vote and its associates violated Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act by intimidating voters ahead of the 2021 U.S. Senate runoff elections with its mass challenge effort.
In the leadup to the 2021 runoffs, according to court filings,
True the Vote launched “Validate the Vote” to overturn the results of
the 2020 presidential election. When TTV failed to overturn the results,
Validate the Vote morphed into “Validate the Vote Georgia,” an
operation that “offered a $1 million ‘bounty’ for reports of voter
fraud…recruited Navy SEALS to confront voters and poll workers… and,
with the help of individual Defendants and state Republican Party
officials, launched the largest mass challenge effort in Georgia
history, targeting hundreds of thousands of voters just two weeks before
the January 2021 runoff election.”
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Federal Judge Rules Right Wing Group’s Mass Voter Challenges Did Not Intimidate Georgia Voters
By Madeleine Greenberg
January 2, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal judge found that
the right-wing group True the Vote’s effort to cancel over 360,000
voter registrations ahead of the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia did
not intimidate voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Today’s decision marks the end of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Fair Fight and Georgia voters that alleged that True the Vote and its associates violated Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act by intimidating voters ahead of the 2021 U.S. Senate runoff elections with its mass challenge effort.
In the leadup to the 2021 runoffs, according to court filings,
True the Vote launched “Validate the Vote” to overturn the results of
the 2020 presidential election. When TTV failed to overturn the results,
Validate the Vote morphed into “Validate the Vote Georgia,” an
operation that “offered a $1 million ‘bounty’ for reports of voter
fraud…recruited Navy SEALS to confront voters and poll workers… and,
with the help of individual Defendants and state Republican Party
officials, launched the largest mass challenge effort in Georgia
history, targeting hundreds of thousands of voters just two weeks before
the January 2021 runoff election.”
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Imagine putting forth such an effort in this, the “world’s greatest ‘democracy’?”
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PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in a rural Arizona county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been criminally charged, the state's top prosecutor said Wednesday.
A grand jury in Maricopa County Superior Court has indicted Cochise County supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby on one count each of conspiracy and interference of an election officer.
“The repeated attempts to undermine our democracy are unacceptable,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. “I took an oath to uphold the rule of law, and my office will continue to enforce Arizona’s elections laws and support our election officials as they carry out the duties and responsibilities of their offices.”
Judd and Crosby did not immediately respond to requests via text and email for comment.
Jane Montgomery, spokesperson for Cochise County, declined to comment. She confirmed both supervisors will be responsible for their own legal representation.
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The indictment marks a rare instance of criminally prosecuting people connected to the vote canvassing being dragged out last year in six Arizona counties.
In December 2022, Cochise County certified election results only after a judge ruled Crosby and Judd, both Republicans, were breaking the law by refusing to sign off on the vote count by the deadline.
Crosby and Judd said they weren’t satisfied that the machines used to tabulate ballots were properly certified for use in elections. This prompted lawsuits including one from then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat.
They both were subpoenaed to court earlier this month. Ann English, the lone Democrat on the three-member board and the only supervisor to vote for certification, was not subpoenaed or indicted.
At the time, Judd and Crosby told The Associated Press they had no idea why they were being subpoenaed. Crosby was shocked.
“I don’t feel like I broke a law. But, obviously the courts had different feelings,” Judd said.
Last year, election results were certified without issue throughout most of the country. But in Arizona, the six counties hesitated to meet the certification deadline amid pressure from some Republicans. Democrats ended up winning U.S. Senate, governor and other statewide races in what has now become a swing state.
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Republican Attorneys General Attack Voting Rights Act in Latest Amicus Brief
By Madeleine Greenberg
December 11, 2023
WASHINGTON D.C. — Last week, Republican attorneys general from Alabama and 12 other states submitted an amicus brief further escalating Republicans’ ongoing attack on the Voting Rights Act.
The “friend-of-the-court” brief was submitted on behalf of 13 attorneys general — from Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia — in a case challenging Louisiana’s congressional map.
The Republican attorneys general are supporting Louisiana’s radical and destructive legal argument that private groups and individuals do not have the right to file lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In legal terms, this is known as a private right of action. The brief reads, “Section 2 contains no express private right of action. And the VRA’s structure confirms that the provision creates no implied private right of action either.”
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities.
The ruling comes less than a year before the 2024 election in a battleground state where four of the six past presidential elections have been decided by fewer than 23,000 votes, and Republicans have built large majorities in the Legislature under maps they drew over a decade ago.
The court ruled 4-3 in favor of Democrats who argued that the legislative maps are unconstitutional because districts drawn aren't contiguous. New maps are likely to be unveiled in about two months.
“Because the current state legislative districts contain separate, detached territory and therefore violate the constitution’s contiguity requirements, we enjoin the Wisconsin Elections Commission from using the current legislative maps in future elections,” Justice Jill Karofksy wrote for the majority.
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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers hailed the ruling, saying he looked forward to submitting proposed maps for the court to review.
“And I remain as optimistic as ever that, at long last, the gerrymandered maps Wisconsinites have endured for years might soon be history,” he said.
Dan Lenz, an attorney for Law Forward, which brought the lawsuit, called the ruling “a victory for a representative democracy in the state of Wisconsin.”
“For too long, rightwing interests have rigged the rules without any consequences,” he said in a statement. “Gerrymandered maps have distorted the political landscape, stifling the voice of the voters. It challenges the very essence of fair representation and erodes confidence in our political system.”
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called it “a sad day for our state” and suggested it would be appealed, saying the U.S. Supreme Court would have the final say.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court said it will proceed with adopting remedial maps in time for the 2024 election unless the Republican-controlled Legislature can pass maps that Evers will sign. Evers vetoed the current maps.
The court appointed two consultants who already had a hand in reshaping districts in other states.
Jonathan Cervas, of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, redrew New York’s congressional and state Senate maps after a court struck down ones adopted by the Democratic-led Legislature. Bernard Grofman, of the University of California, Irvine, helped redraw Virginia’s federal and state legislative districts after a bipartisan commission deadlocked.
Conservative justices also objected to the hiring of the consultants, saying their selection, the legal authority to appoint them and their responsibilities all raise serious questions.
The maps from parties to the lawsuit are due by Jan. 12, with supporting arguments due 10 days later. Reports from the consultants are due by Feb. 1, with responses a week later. That means the court will release new maps likely sometime in late February or early March unless the Legislature acts first.
The state elections commission has said maps must be in place by March 15 if the new districts are to be in play for the 2024 election.
The lawsuit was filed a day after the court's majority flipped to 4-3 liberal control in August. That's when Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined the court after her April election victory.
Protasiewicz called the GOP-drawn maps “unfair” and “rigged” during her campaign, leading Republicans to threaten to impeach her before she had even heard a case. She sided with the other liberal justices in striking down the current maps.
Vos, who had threatened impeachment the loudest, backed off on Wednesday and said even if she ruled in favor of throwing out the maps, impeachment was “super unlikely.”
Protasiewicz joined with Karosfky and justices Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet in the majority. Conservative justices Annette Ziegler, Rebecca Bradley and Brian Hagedorn dissented.
All of the dissenting justices accused the majority of putting politics above the law.
“This deal was sealed on election night,” Ziegler wrote in her dissent. “Four justices remap Wisconsin even though this constitutional responsibility is to occur every ten years, after a census, by the other two branches of government. The public understands this.”
She accused the majority of “judicial activism on steroids" and said “the court of four takes a wrecking ball to the law.”
Rebecca Bradley, in her dissent, referred to the liberal majority as “handmaidens of the Democratic Party,” saying they “trample the rule of law, dishonor the institution of the judiciary, and undermine democracy.”
Hagedorn called it “a sad turn for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
“Today, the court dives headlong into politics, choosing to wield the power it has while it has it,” he wrote. “Wisconsinites searching for an institution unpolluted by partisan warfare will not find it here.”
Wisconsin’s redistricting ruling comes one day after a federal judicial panel also struck down some of Michigan’s state House and Senate districts and ordered them to be redrawn. The Michigan court said the districts were illegally drawn based on race.
Wisconsin Democrats argued for having all 132 lawmakers stand for election under the new maps, including half of the members of the state Senate who are midway through their four-year terms.
But the court rejected the request from Democrats to invalidate the 2022 results, which would have forced all state Senate seats to be on the 2024 ballot.
In a significant win for Democrats, the court said it would not favor maps that have the least amount of change over existing boundary lines. The previous conservative-controlled court had adopted the “least change” approach for the maps adopted in 2022, which closely resembled the maps Republicans passed in 2011.
The court agreed with Democrats who argued in Wisconsin that the majority of current legislative districts — 54 out of 99 in the Assembly and 21 out of 33 in the Senate — violate the state constitution’s contiguity requirement.
Wisconsin’s redistricting laws, backed up by state and federal court rulings over the past 50 years, have permitted districts under certain circumstances to be noncontiguous, attorneys for the Legislature argued.
The legislative electoral maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011 cemented the party’s majorities, which now stand at 64-35 in the Assembly and a 22-11 supermajority in the Senate.
Litigation is ongoing in more than dozen states over U.S. House and state legislative districts enacted after the 2020 census.
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Associated Press writer David A. Lieb in Jefferson City, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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Federal Judge Rules Right Wing Group’s Mass Voter Challenges Did Not Intimidate Georgia Voters
By Madeleine Greenberg
January 2, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal judge found that the right-wing group True the Vote’s effort to cancel over 360,000 voter registrations ahead of the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia did not intimidate voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Today’s decision marks the end of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Fair Fight and Georgia voters that alleged that True the Vote and its associates violated Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act by intimidating voters ahead of the 2021 U.S. Senate runoff elections with its mass challenge effort.
In the leadup to the 2021 runoffs, according to court filings, True the Vote launched “Validate the Vote” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. When TTV failed to overturn the results, Validate the Vote morphed into “Validate the Vote Georgia,” an operation that “offered a $1 million ‘bounty’ for reports of voter fraud…recruited Navy SEALS to confront voters and poll workers… and, with the help of individual Defendants and state Republican Party officials, launched the largest mass challenge effort in Georgia history, targeting hundreds of thousands of voters just two weeks before the January 2021 runoff election.”
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