Election Integrity: Two Lawmakers Ask Judge To Ban Voting Machines Until They're Proven To Be 'Fraud Proof'

By Charles Susswein | Saturday, 11 June 2022 10:45 PM
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Election Integrity: Two Lawmakers Ask Judge To Ban Voting Machines Until They're Proven To Be 'Fraud Proof'

Two Arizona lawmakers sought an injunction to prevent the state from using electronic voting machines in November. They claim they are not secure and fail to meet the constitutional and statutory mandates to ensure a free and fair election.

Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and state Rep. Mark Finchem, both Republicans, argue that the machines are untrustworthy since the companies that manufacture them have declined to open their system and software to the public and therefore are breaking the 14th Amendment.

The injunction they seek is linked to an April lawsuit they filed calling on a jury to toss the machines.

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“Computerized equipment is vulnerable to manipulation by unauthorized persons, meaning the true results of an election that relies upon computerized equipment can never be known,” their lawyer, Andrew Parker, announced.

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The two candidates argue that the machines have “glaring cybersecurity vulnerabilities,” including permitting possible remote access, unmonitored network communications, and holding secret content.

Arizona has been ground zero for election conspiracy theories after Joe Biden’s 2020 razor-thin win in the state against then-President Donald Trump. The “Big Lie,” an opinion that the election was “stolen,” has centered on the evidence-free theory that the state’s ballot-counting machines were rigged to switch votes from Trump to Biden.

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Trump was just the second Republican presidential nominee to lose Arizona since 1948, due almost entirely to Biden carrying Maricopa County. After the election night results, Trump and his followers immediately called foul and required recounts.

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In Maricopa, no discrepancies were discovered either in a hand count audit, which took place on November 4, 2020, or in a further physical hand recount of 47,000 ballots that occurred between November 7, 2020, and November 9, 2020. On February 23, 2021, Maricopa County declared that two independent auditors’ forensic audits of their vote tabulation equipment had discovered no irregularities.

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A month later, Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann hired Cyber Ninjas to audit the 2020 election. The firm found some flaws and different vulnerabilities in the voting machines.

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Since then, controversy has swirled over who and how the audit was conducted. For instance, the hand recount was managed by Wake Technology Services, which had been hired to conduct an audit in a rural Pennsylvania county by then-Trump attorney Sidney Powell. The company, until then, had primarily worked in the healthcare sector with little to no experience with elections.

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Lake’s and Finchem’s allegations are based on allegations from states including Georgia, Wisconsin, and Colorado but “not Arizona or Maricopa County,” Emily Craiger, a lawyer for Arizona’s most populous county, announced in a recent 21-page legal filing.

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