The Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear the election lawsuit filed by state Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward concerning irregularities with mail-in ballots.
A lower court judge originally dismissed Ward’s case last week, but she appealed up to the state’s highest court, which will decide the matter without oral argument.
“We got to examine 100 of them,” Ward said of the ballots. “Guess what? We found two ballots that were changed: One was changed from Trump to Biden; one was just taken away from Trump — for no reason that we can find an explanation for.”
Ward said that despite the small sample size, there was evidence of fraud.
“This is good news because those media propagandists who say there’s no evidence of fraud can now shut up,” Ward said. “The bad news is, this looks like this election has been attempted to be stolen from President Trump.”
The ballot inspection was ordered by Judge Randall Warner, allowing the Arizona GOP to look at 100 ballot envelopes and 100 duplicate or reconstructed ballots.
“I’m inclined to err on the side of transparency and air these things out,” Warner said.
“And to remind you what a duplicate ballot is: It’s when there’s a damaged ballot or, for some reason, the machine cannot read a ballot,” Ward continued. “So, then, election workers ‘recreate’ that ballot. They ‘duplicate’ it for the voter. And it’s either fed back into the machine or created electronically.”
Arizona’s election results give President-elect Joe Biden a narrow 10,456-vote lead over President Trump, or 0.3%.
