Still Fighting: White House Refuses to Recognize Biden as President-Elect Following Electoral College Vote; Arizona State Senator Subpoenas Maricopa County for Election Audits; Legislative Committees Slap Multiple Cities With Election-Related Subpoenas
By Washington Examiner. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany declined to echo Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s acknowledgment of Joe Biden as president-elect.
“The president is still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election,” McEnany told reporters on Tuesday.
On Monday, the Electoral College met across the country to affirm Biden’s win, giving the president-elect 306 votes to President Trump’s 232, 37 days after multiple outlets called the Nov. 3 election in Biden’s favor on Nov. 11.
McEnany, instead, referred questions to the Trump campaign, describing the electors meeting as “one step in the constitutional process.” (Read more from “Still Fighting: White House Refuses to Recognize Biden as President-Elect Following Electoral College Vote” HERE)
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Arizona State Senator Subpoenas Maricopa County for Election Audits
By Washington Examiner. An Arizona state senator subpoenaed the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, demanding audits of Dominion Voting Systems machines used in the state’s largest county.
Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann announced that Eddie Farnsworth, a Republican who is the chairman of the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee, served the subpoenas on Tuesday.
“Today, under my direction as Senate President, Judiciary Committee Chairman Eddie Farnsworth issued subpoenas to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. One subpoena calls for a scanned ballot audit, to collect an electronic ballot image cast for all mail-in ballots counted in the November 2020 general election in Maricopa County, Arizona. The second subpoena calls for a full forensic audit of ballot tabulation equipment, the software for that equipment and the election management system used in the 2020 general election,” Fann said in the statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.
“The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors were served these subpoenas on Tuesday afternoon, and they call for the information to be delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman on or before 5 p.m. on December 18, 2020. I appreciate Board Chairman Clint Hickman’s commitment to the integrity of the Arizona election process, and I know he shares all of our concerns,” Fann added. (Read more from “Arizona State Senator Subpoenas Maricopa County for Election Audits” HERE)
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Michigan Legislative Committees Slap Multiple Cities With Election-Related Subpoenas
By Townhall. The Michigan Legislature’s House and Senate oversight committees on Tuesday voted to subpoena election materials from Detroit and its suburb, Livonia.
The cities have been instructed to turn over all hard drives, communications with poll workers, absentee counting boards and any other election-related materials.
The joint committee is also interested in reviewing documentation about voting machines, including when they were purchased, what previous elections the machines were used in, and the accuracy tests that were conducted on the machines.
Detroit and Livonia were asked to turn over policies relating to the Wuhan coronavirus, including instructions given to poll workers and the rules guiding ballot challengers. (Read more from “Michigan Legislative Committees Slap Multiple Cities With Election-Related Subpoenas” HERE)
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