Arizona
Arizona county scrambles after sending thousands of erroneous ballots
PHOENIX – With the first election about three weeks away, Pinal County officers are scrambling after tens of 1000’s of voters had been despatched incorrect early mail ballots final week.
About 46,000 ballots mailed to voters in Casa Grande, Eloy, Maricopa, Mammoth and Superior plus the Pinal County parts of Apache Junction and Queen Creek had been lacking municipal contests, in accordance with a county spokesman.
The parts of Apache Junction and Queen Creek in Maricopa County usually are not affected, and neither are another cities or cities in Pinal County.
All federal, state, legislative and county races had been appropriately listed.
The county mentioned human error was guilty for the errors.
County officers introduced an answer on Friday – a supplemental all-mail election for the municipal races — however on Monday the plan was placed on maintain so the Pinal County Legal professional’s Workplace may evaluate the choice and consider different choices.
Beforehand acknowledged poll by mail and choices associated to metropolis and city elections within the seven impacted municipalities are being re-evaluated by the County Legal professional’s Workplace.
We are going to replace you with additional data when it turns into obtainable. We respect your endurance.
— Pinal County – Authorities 🌵 (@PinalCounty) July 11, 2022
The Pinal County Board of Supervisors scheduled a particular session for two:40 p.m. Tuesday to deal with the scenario.
Underneath the proposed plan, the county would ship a supplemental municipal poll to each registered voter within the impacted cities and cities, no matter whether or not an early poll had been beforehand requested. There can be no in-person voting for the municipal races underneath the plan, however ballots could possibly be mailed again or dropped off at voting websites.
Voting for federal, state, legislative and county races can be accomplished as ordinary with the faulty ballots, in accordance with the proposal.
Officers had been aiming to get the brand new ballots into voters’ fingers by early subsequent week. By state legislation, they need to arrive no less than 15 days earlier than Election Day, which is Aug. 2.
There was additionally an issue with 17,000 ballots despatched to some precincts in unincorporated areas. They improperly included municipal races though these areas are exterior of any metropolis or city limits.
The county mentioned these ballots stay legitimate for federal, state, legislative and county contests, however any votes marked for the mistakenly listed municipal races received’t be counted.
The Arizona Secretary of State’s Workplace mentioned that Pinal County reported a possible situation on Thursday, the day after ballots had been despatched out, and recognized the impacted voters on Friday.
“Underneath Arizona legislation, the Secretary of State’s Workplace isn’t concerned with a county’s creation or proofing of ballots for native contests,” Sophia Solis, deputy communications director for the Secretary of State’s Workplace, instructed KTAR Information 92.3 FM in an e mail on Saturday.
Pinal County posted an FAQ detailing the scenario over the weekend. It was up to date Monday to say the supplemental all-mail election plan was being reevaluated.
Anyone in search of further data can name the the county’s Citizen Contact Heart at 520-509-3555 (311 from throughout the county) Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to five p.m. or submit inquiries through e mail at communications@pinal.gov.
Pinal is Arizona’s third-largest county by inhabitants, with round 425,000 residents. It’s located within the decrease half of the state between the 2 most-populous counties, Maricopa to the north and Pima to the south.
Arizona
Arizona Cardinals NFL draft picks 2024: Full list of team’s round-by-round selections
Here is a 2024 NFL draft pick-by-pick breakdown for the Arizona Cardinals:
Round 1 (No. 4 overall)
Round 1 (27, from Texans)
Round 2 (35)
Round 3 (66)
Round 3 (71, from Titans)
Round 3 (90, from Texans)
Round 4 (104)
Round 5 (138)
Round 5 (162, from Texans)
Round 6 (186, from Vikings)
Round 7 (226, from Giants)
Arizona Cardinals’ recent top draft picks
- 2023 (No. 6 overall): Paris Johnson Jr., OT, Ohio State
- 2022 (No. 55 overall): Trey McBride, TE, Colorado State
- 2021 (No. 22 overall): Caleb Farley, CB, Virginia Tech
- 2020 (No. 29 overall): Isaiah Wilson, OT, Georgia
- 2019 (No. 19 overall): Jeffery Simmons, DT, Mississippi State
Previous drafts: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
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Arizona Just Indicted a Bunch of Trump Associates. Some Are Notably Missing.
A grand jury in Arizona has returned an indictment for several close associates of former President Donald Trump as well as lower-level individuals who served as false electors in Arizona during the 2020 presidential election. The Office of Attorney General Kris Mayes has charged all of them with a conspiracy under Arizona state law to overturn the popular vote in the state.
The list of indicted co-defendants includes seven national figures: Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, Mike Roman, Jenna Ellis, and Christina Bobb.
The 11 other co-defendants are all the false electors in the 2020 election. That list notably includes Kelli Ward, who served as the chair of the Arizona Republican Party during the 2020 presidential election.
Notably, like Georgia, criminal trials in Arizona can be publicly broadcast.
Some highlights follow.
The Conspicuous Absence of Donald Trump
The Arizona indictment raises a question. How is it possible that Trump’s two alter egos have been indicted but the former president—the ego in that equation—has not?
The two alter egos are Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Trump’s absence from the indicted co-defendants list is all the more puzzling since Trump is identifiable as “Unindicted Coconspirator 1” in the attorney general’s court filings. Coincidentally, on Wednesday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office testified in that state’s court that Trump, Meadows, and Giuliani are “unindicted co-conspirators” in the Michigan state prosecution of false electors.
A great deal of evidence shows that Meadows and Giuliani helped lead the multipronged efforts to overturn the election, acting on behalf of Trump.
Giuliani
The federal indictment of Trump, for example, refers to Giuliani as “Co-Conspirator 1,” including for his allegedly helping orchestrate—on behalf of Trump—the false electors scheme across the seven swing states, including Arizona. The federal indictment also states that Trump worked directly with Giuliani in pressuring Arizona state officials to overturn the popular vote, including calling the Republican Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives Rusty Bowers, in which they “made knowingly false claims of election fraud aimed at interfering with the ascertainment of and voting by Arizona’s electors.”
Meadows
The Jan. 6 House Select Committee final report has the greatest details of Meadows’ deep involvement in the false electors scheme on behalf of Trump. For Meadows, indicted in Georgia, his own court filings in that state claim—or admit—that he was acting in service of the then president.
One can only speculate as to why Trump might be excluded from but the other two men included in the Arizona indictment. One reason might have to do with direct evidence for Meadows and Giuliani that is lacking for Trump—especially as the former president acted in part through them as intermediaries and conduits. Another reason may be the exercise of “prosecutorial discretion.” Yet another could be that prosecutors submitted the question to the jury but an insufficient number of jurors approved of charging the former president. Or it could be some other reason entirely.
Tuesday’s indictment may not be the final word on whether Trump will be indicted in Arizona. Another shoe may have yet to drop. But the current situation cries out for an explanation of how Trump’s two key agents—Giuliani and Meadows—are included in the list of indicted individuals but Trump himself is not.
The Conspicuous Absence of Kenneth Chesebro
Kenneth Chesebro has properly been called “a chief architect” of the false electors scheme. He is identifiable as Co-Conspirator 5 in the federal indictment of Trump, and he has pleaded guilty in the prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia.
Chesebro has so far escaped prosecution in other states where false electors are under indictment. His protection from prosecution appears to be on the basis that he “cooperated” with those investigations. However, recent investigative reporting by CNN and others has revealed that Chesebro apparently made false statements to state prosecutors in Michigan and Nevada while feigning cooperation with their respective criminal investigations of false electors. (See also this analysis of flaws with his proffer agreement in Georgia.)
That all is now fairly well known to close observers of these cases. Why, then, the Arizona indictment excludes Chesebro is a mystery. Prosecutors in Michigan and Nevada have decided not to seek indictments of anyone at the national level and instead focused only on false electors in their states. But in Arizona that’s different, as the prosecutors have now charged several out-of-state individuals who were involved in the nationally coordinated effort to overturn the election results. But not Chesebro. Earlier reports were that Chesebro was “cooperating” with the Arizona prosecutors, and that may explain it.
The Indictment of Boris Epshteyn and Christina Bobb
Two new figures have been added to the list of Trump’s associates now under indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the presidential election: Boris Epshteyn and Christina Bobb.
In the federal indictment, it appears that Epshteyn may be unindicted “Co-Conspirator 6” (see this analysis by the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, and Luke Broadwater). In the Fulton County indictment, previous analysis at Just Security identified Epshteyn as most likely one of the unindicted co-conspirators (“Individual 3”).
A Potential Trump Presidency and Pressure on Defendants to Flip
Criminal defendants in the Arizona 2020 election interference prosecution, as well as elsewhere, like Fulton County, Georgia, may have reasons to flip and cooperate with prosecutors due to the prospect of a Trump presidency.
A president cannot issue pardons for state crimes, and his or her control over the Department of Justice does not extend to state law enforcement authorities. The state-level prosecutions of false electors and other Trump associates—in Arizona and elsewhere—will accordingly proceed whether or not Trump wins election. But he himself has a high likelihood of being deemed immune (by the Supreme Court if it comes to that) from state and local criminal prosecutions while in office. In other words, co-defendants and co-conspirators may be left holding the bag. That dawning reality may create incentives for some of these individuals to cooperate with law enforcement authorities sooner than later.
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Former Arizona State guard Austin Nunez commits to Sun Devils
Former Arizona State guard Austin Nunez is coming back to the Sun Devils after spending one season at Ole Miss.
Nunez played a reserve role as a freshman for the Sun Devils before transferring to Ole Miss as a sophomore for the 2023-24 season.
Nunez took home Pac-12 player of the week honors on Nov. 21, 2022. The lefty scorer posted 10 points against VCU and another 15 in only 22 minutes versus Michigan.
As a freshman, he missed the Sun Devils’ final eight games of the year due to a concussion he suffered in mid-February.
He was not activated until the NCAA Tournament, but he did not return to Bobby Hurley’s rotation.
He averaged 4.5 points and 0.9 assists on 41.5% shooting in 16.3 minutes per game during his first season with the Sun Devils.
He played sparingly at Ole Miss during his sophomore season, averaging 0.7 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.6 assists over 6.7 minutes per game.
Nunez was ranked by 247Sports as a top-75 recruit in the country. He originally joined center Duke Brennan as the first two prospects in ASU’s 2022 class.
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