Trumpian Arizona candidates lose nonsensical bid to ban voting machines

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Trumpian Arizona candidates lose nonsensical bid to ban voting machines
A judge rejected Kari Lake and Mark Finchem's lawsuit seeking to ban electronic voting machines ahead of the midterm elections.
3:00 PM · Aug 29, 2022

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/kari-lake-mark-finchem-lawsuit-arizona-rcna45255?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

A federal judge on Friday tossed out a ridiculous election lawsuit filed by far-right, conspiracy theory-pushing candidates in Arizona.

Kari Lake and Mark Finchem — Arizona's Republican nominees for governor and secretary of state, respectively — sued in April to ban the use of electronic voting machines ahead of the midterm elections, citing baseless claims of potential fraud. The lawsuit named Katie Hobbs, Arizona's Democratic secretary of state and Lake’s opponent in the gubernatorial race, as a defendant, along with several county election officials.

The far-fetched case was an extension of former President Donald Trump’s lies claiming widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 election. And it stood no chance for success.

In their lawsuit, Lake and Finchem claimed:

Electronic voting machines cannot be deemed reliably secure and do not meet the constitutional and statutory mandates to guarantee a free and fair election. The use of untested and unverified electronic voting machines violates the rights of Plaintiffs and their fellow voters and office seekers, and it undermines public confidence in the validity of election results.

There’s no evidence backing any of those claims. And, legally speaking, the words “untested and unverified” mean nothing here. Arizona, in fact, already has a committee in place that examines voting machines for potential malfunctions. Even a right-wing firm Arizona Republicans commissioned to examine the 2020 election results concluded there was no evidence voter fraud influenced the outcome of any race.

In so many words, U.S. District Judge John Tuchi told Lake and Finchem their claims were trash.

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[louis-t]

1. What they really want to do is ban voting.

Not just the machines.

[MichMan]

2. Quite a few posters here I recall, that proposed banning them in 2016

Wanted hand counted paper ballots as there were fears that the machine votes were manipulated by the Russians.

[questionseverything]

3. I am a hand count paper ballot person

Although I would compromise if the scanner was open source and the top two federal races were hand counted, and it was easier to get a hand count if someone wanted it.

Hand counted paper ballots are the only way the average citizen can oversee the election process, voting machines are computers and no one but insiders can oversee what they are programmed to do

Remember the volkswagon thing where the software said better mileage was achieved during testing than what was actually happening, if someone wanted to screw with voting software the same thing is possible

Remember republicans accuse others of their evils