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The Arizona Senate-ordered audit of Maricopa County s general election will take a one-week hiatus at the end of the week to make way for high school graduations at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.
The plan is to move the ballots and equipment to another area of the Arizona State Fairgrounds on Friday and move back in May 23 to pick back up on May 24.
“We’ll stand aside and secure all the ballots and equipment here on the property and be ready to go when they’re finished,” said the state Senate s audit liaison Ken Bennett.
Jen Yee, assistant executive director at the Arizona State Fair and Exposition, confirmed the plan, but said nothing had been signed as of Monday.
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A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit involving GOP activists’ quest to redo the Arizona Republican Party’s election of officers over what they deemed various irregularities during the Jan. 23 vote.
Judge Michael Kemp agreed with the state party’s attorney that the dispute is limited to internal political party elections not public elections and cannot be decided in a court of law.
The ruling is a victory for state party officials who have downplayed problems in the election and have cast the activists as the disgruntled opponents of state GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her brand of politics.
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A judge in Arizona dismissed a lawsuit requesting the court intervene in proceedings over an Arizona Republican Party election.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Kemp ruled it was not the court s place to get involved in an internal party dispute, according to a report by the
Arizona Republic on Monday. Two state Republicans filed a lawsuit in March after Kelli Ward, the party s chairwoman, won reelection to the post that month by a margin of 42 votes. Whether or not any chicanery took place in the voting process on January 23, this Court finds that it does not have judicial authority to intervene in an inter-party dispute that is guided by rules and procedures agreed upon by an independent political party, Kemp wrote.