J.T. Waldron Pima County Judge James E. Marner denied every request by citizens concerned about election integrity in Pima County. Parroting the previous Pima County judges’ claims about the lack of jurisdiction, Marner has paved the way for Pima County to continue subverting efforts to improve election integrity. Key auditing functions like the simple […]
Pima County Circumvents It’s Own Election Integrity Commission to Get a Waiver that Removes Proper Audit of County Elections
J.T. Waldron A key document has surfaced in a recent lawsuit in Pima County, Arizona, that suggests much more activity affecting the reliability of elections took place in secret meetings with Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett. When the 2011 revision of the state elections manual added a sentence requiring presorting of early ballots by […]
Former Rep. Ted Downing Recalls Efforts to Exclude Audit of County Races
Pima County has not only fought over the plain meaning of various election and public records laws, it has actively intervened in drafting of election laws. Specifically, in 2006, former Representative Ted Downing and former Senator Karen Johnson authored SB 1557 in the State legislature to mandate random auditing and hand counting of ballots. Pima […]
Retired NSA Analyst Mickey Duniho Testifies in Arizona Election Integrity Trial
Mickey Duniho testified in yesterday’s election integrity hearing held in Tucson, Arizona. Duniho is one of thirteen plaintiffs suing Pima County to get them to comply with existing election laws. He provides an excellent summary of the problems verifying elections counted on electronic voting machines. Pima County is notorious for fighting measures for election integrity and […]
Donna Branch-Gilby Talks About Why She Ran Against Supervisor Sharon Bronson
Arizona: In light of Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson’s campaign season shots at Republican rival Tanner Bell over money and politics, the public is slowly starting to learn that the real question should be “Who’s your sugar daddy?”