Arizona
Arizona county official grilled in court on hand-count plan
PHOENIX (AP) — A southern Arizona choose heard from a parade of witnesses Friday in a case introduced by opponents of an uncommon plan pushed by native officers who query the accuracy of ballot-counting machines and need to hand-count all of the ballots within the election that concludes subsequent week.
Amongst these taking the stand was an elected Republican official in rural Cochise County who has agreed to take over the county election director’s regular job of conducting a post-election audit of the vote rely by hand — this time increasing it from a small effort utilizing a pattern of ballots to an enormous one protecting 4 races on about 40,000 ballots.
The elections director testified that she faces a possible felony if implementing the plan finally ends up violating the legislation.
Cochise County Recorder David Stevens was grilled in courtroom by attorneys representing a retiree group suing to dam the hassle. He defended the plan, which is very uncommon and stands as practically unprecedented within the state.
Stevens mentioned he plans to start out the hand-count after voting ends Tuesday and use greater than 250 volunteers he’s recruited from three political events, though the group is closely tilted in direction of registered Republicans. He vowed to comply with the legislation that lays out guidelines for the much-smaller hand-count audits finished to verify machine vote-counting tools. However he acknowledged he’s bypassing the county elections director, who by legislation oversees the method and is accountable for securely holding the ballots.
And responding to questions from the lawyer for the Arizona Alliance of Retired Individuals, Lalitha Madduri, Stevens mentioned he deliberate to rely an estimated 30,000 early ballots regardless of provisions within the legislation that restrict early poll hand-count audits to 1% or 5,000 ballots, no matter is much less, and that they be randomly chosen. That bars a full hand-count of the early votes, she mentioned.
Stevens mentioned the Cochise County board of supervisors had voted on the plan and approved him to conduct the rely.
“The courtroom will determine if it’s authorized or not,” he mentioned. “However they did vote — it was a two-to-one vote — they voted for me to do that and a 100% rely.”
The 2 Republican supervisors who voted to do the 100% hand-count slightly than the small pattern finished in each different election have been pushed to take action by individuals who imagine former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that fraud or counting issues with voting machines led to his loss in 2020. The lone Democrat on the board opposed the hand-count.
Pima County Superior Court docket Decide Casey F. McGinley, who’s listening to the case in Bisbee after the native county courtroom declared a battle, is charged with deciding whether or not the detailed state legislation on hand-count audits permits the county board of supervisors to develop it to all early ballots. Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who’s operating for governor, contends solely a pattern of early ballots will be counted below state legislation.
Republican Legal professional Normal Mark Brnovich, nevertheless, issued a casual opinion final week that mentioned all of the ballots will be hand-counted. A Nevada county can be pushing a full hand-count to mollify Trump supporters, whereas leaders of one other GOP-led Arizona county rejected the same effort this week.
McGinley mentioned after a day-long listening to that the attorneys representing the county supervisors and Stevens on one facet and Elections Director Lisa Marra and the retiree group on the opposite had supplied a lot info there was no manner he would rule from the bench.
As a substitute, he promised a ruling very first thing Monday morning and mentioned he totally anticipated whoever misplaced would instantly enchantment.
“There’s far an excessive amount of info that’s been introduced right this moment,” McGinley mentioned. “Far an excessive amount of necessary testimony, far an excessive amount of necessary argument, and fairly actually, far too necessary a query for this courtroom to hurry to a solution in an effort to get it finished by 5 o’clock right this moment.”
Marra is charged with performing the post-election audits, and testified that she faces a possible felony cost for breaking election legislation if guidelines Stevens devises stray exterior the legislation. She additionally mentioned handing the ballots over to Stevens would break the safe chain of custody for ballots and that increasing the rely jeopardizes assembly a Nov. 18 certification deadline.
Attorneys for the retiree group Arizona Alliance of Retired Individuals argued that the legislation doesn’t enable a full hand-count of early ballots, though it does for these ballots solid in-person on Election Day.
And Stephani Stephenson, who lives within the small Cochise County neighborhood of St. David and is the named plaintiff within the case, testified that she feared a rushed and irregular course of would probably jeopardize her vote. She mentioned she has religion within the present system.
“I do know that individuals have labored years to give you a course of,” Stephenson mentioned. “After which immediately if my county goes down this different street, at this level, no, I don’t belief that.”
McGinley questioned Stevens concerning the regular recount guidelines and centered on a piece of the election guidelines written by the secretary of state that permits counties to develop the hand-count at their discretion, which seems nowhere within the legislation. And he questioned how guidelines on the appropriate margins of error between hand-count audits would apply to a full recount.
Stevens mentioned his view was {that a} full hand-count wants no margin and that no matter that rely turned out to be can be the one which was formally licensed. That runs counter to what the board mentioned when it determined to do a full hand-count as a check of the official machine rely.
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Police officials confirmed that a suspect arrested on Saturday in Winslow, Arizona, was wanted on charges of rape and murder of a Louisiana teen girl.
Arizona authorities assisted in the arrest of Montrell Donell Holmes, who was suspected of killing 14-year-old Ashley Barnes.
In a Facebook post made by the Bastrop Police Department, police officials said they were conducting a homicide investigation after they discovered a body in the woods, later identified as Barnes.
Officials said a suspect was arrested in connection to the case, identified as Holmes.
On Saturday, officials from the U.S. Marshals Service said their Flagstaff office received a request from the Marshals Service’s Western District of Louisiana Violent Offender Task Force to help locate and arrest Holmes.
Officials said he was wanted on charges of the murder and rape of Barnes.
The Marshals Service’s Flagstaff task force officers, in coordination with the Flagstaff Police Department and Department of Public Safety, located and arrested Holmes using cellphone tower pings. He was arrested in Winslow, just by Highway Interstate 40 and North Park Drive.
Officials said Holmes was awaiting transport back to the Western District of Louisiana, where he will face his charges. The Bastrop Police Department was still investigating the murder.
Annie Goodykoontz is a reporter for The Arizona Republic. You can reach her at AGoodykoontz@gannett.com.
ARIZONA — Much like anything new, not many were fans of the Arizona Cardinals’ new uniforms when they were first introduced last offseason.
A new era of football was underway in the desert with the fresh presence of Jonathan Gannon and Monti Ossenfort, and thus the timing for a fresh set of uniforms couldn’t have been better.
The previous set was fairly old and outdated.
While the newest looks aren’t exactly top of the league, it’s hard to say they’re not an upgrade from what we previously saw at State Farm Stadium.
The Cardinals still rank near the bottom of recent NFL uniform rankings, however. USA Today had the organization at No. 26.
“Are they effectively Ohio State West since last year’s redesign? Yeah, basically. Is that a notable improvement from where they’d been? Yeah, basically,” said Nate Davis.
Well, that’s a lazy take.
The Ohio State comps were popular, sure, especially with the gray on the side of the sleeves for their white road and black alternate jerseys, though that color was added as a nod to the organization’s past.
The Cardinals found themselves behind teams such as the Rams, Falcons, Titans and Giants in USA Today’s rankings.
Even Atlanta fans will tell you the “ATL” and numbers look ridiculous.
As for the Titans, nobody’s exactly rushing to buy these.
The Cardinals could probably benefit from a pair of throwback uniforms, and though Arizona clearly doesn’t have the best-looking threads in the league, their overall standing in the uniform rankings near the bottom is laughable.
For what it’s worth, the Chargers/Raiders/Steelers being atop the league is tough to argue.
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