Over a month after the Midterm elections several states and districts are still locked in major controversies over the results.
One of those controversies may have just resulted in an outright authoritarian abuse of power.
And now this Democrat Secretary of State and Senate candidate’s threatening ultimatum to local officials will send a chill down your spine.
While Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has been declared the winner of the Arizona Gubernatorial race, Republican Kari Lake has refused to concede.
With the margin between the two at roughly 17,000 votes, Lake has contested the results in light of that fact that Maricopa County Officials have admitted that Election Day “printer and tabulator issues” impacted – surprise, surprise – roughly 17,000 ballots.
At the same time, Maricopa County is also Arizona’s most populous county, and multiple reports and preliminary investigations into the matter have indicated hundreds of thousands of votes may have been impacted.
If true, that could potentially swing the election in Lake’s favor considering there are more registered Republicans in the county than Democrats, and the fact that Republicans tend to vote on Election Day while Democrats tend to vote early by mail – and ballot harvesting.
That has also led the Mohave Board of Supervisors to withhold certifying the election results until Maricopa County gets to the bottom of their controversy.
But the problem with that type of reasoned and pragmatic approach to ensuring the integrity of the state’s elections is that it fails to take into account the fact the Democrat declared winner, Katie Hobbs, is also Arizona’s Secretary of State – the official ultimately in charge of the state’s elections.
As a result, Hobbs’ top deputy, Arizona state Elections Director Kori Lorick, reportedly issued an ultimatum to the Mohave Board of Supervisors, threatening that they either certified the results that declared her boss the state’s next U.S. Senator or face arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment.
“Democratic Arizona Secretary of State and Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs’ top deputy threatened the Mohave County Board of Supervisors with prosecution if it didn’t certify her election results before a Monday deadline, according to emails and documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation,” The Daily Caller reported. “Arizona State Elections Director Kori Lorick wrote several letters and emails to members of the board, warning them of criminal charges if the refused to certify the results in time. The letters included threats of lawsuits against the members for “nonfeasance,” as well, per the emails.”
“The Secretary of State did contact our County and cited A.R.S. Section 16-1010 as a statute that could be used to prosecute [the board] if they did not certify the election,” Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith told The Daily Caller. “The statute is an Arizona felony statute regarding election officials who “fail to perform their duties” under the law; as a Class 6 felony, upon conviction, it could result in up to two years’ imprisonment.”
For over two years now, Democrats and the corporate-controlled media have pushed the narrative that Republicans who questioned voter fraud’s role in the 2020 Presidential election were a “threat to democracy.”
Interestingly enough, though, despite Democrats constantly accusing Republicans of virtually every possible offense imaginable, there’s never even been the suggestion that any Republican, much less former President Donald Trump, threatened to throw election officials in jail if they didn’t just declare them the winner.
But that’s exactly what is now transpiring in Arizona, as Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is using her position to declare herself the state’s U.S. Senator-elect.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
