Judge Daniel Martin ruled in Phoenix, Arizona today against the Arizona Democratic Party, and in favor of the Arizona State Senate’s carrying out a forensic audit of the 2020 Presidential election in the state. In question is Maricopa County, which had two-thirds of the ballots cast in the state last November. Maricopa delivered a 45,000 vote surplus to Biden, who carried the state by 10,000 votes. The county has been obstructing the Senate for months, on all manner of pretexts.
Last November, Arizona was the state which was hastily declared on election night to have gone for Biden by 200,000 votes; but over the next nine days, the vote kept shrinking, until when it reached a 10,000 vote difference, the count became rather irregular. Maricopa only agreed to turn over a miniscule sample of 100 “duplicate ballots” — ballots filled out by election officials to correct problems with the voter’s original ballot. The review, comparing the original ballot with the newly-generated one, showed a 3% gain for Trump. In an election with a 0.3% difference, that was significant enough to warrant a 2,500 ballot sample — but Maricopa then tried to back out of their agreement. It has been a continuous brawl with the county since then.
