Gina Swoboda, the newly elected chair of the Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP), revealed: Republican leaders plan to sue Secretary of State Adrian Fontes over Election Procedures Manual (EPM).
Swoboda withdrew the news in an interview with Steve Bannon.she said Fontes' EPM was “insane” and worse than the one written by his predecessor and current governor, Fontes.katie hobbs.
“Congress plans to drop the lawsuit this week, and the AZGOP plans to drop the lawsuit this week,” Swoboda said.
Mr. Bannon questioned why the lawsuit had not been dropped sooner, to which Mr. Swoboda told Mr. Bannon that EPM: published December 30th.
Mr. Swoboda discarded Fontes' EPM and clarified the following: Parties will seek to eliminate unattended drop boxes and introduce stricter requirements for signature verification..
“What we can do is get in there now and eliminate the worst gaps in the system: unattended dropboxes, lack of signature verification requirements, etc. […] And what’s in the manual for this procedure is going to blow the doors off, so if you thought what you saw before was bad, you’re off the rails,” Swoboda said.
Before she was elected AZGOP Chair, Mr. Swoboda is Deputy Registrar for the Maricopa County Recorder's Office, Chairman of the AZGOP Election Integrity Commission, and Voter Reference Foundation (VRF), a subsidiary of Restoration of America, an organization that publishes voter rolls online. ) was the executive director of
Swoboda said he initially had no plans to run for party chairman until he received a call from former President Donald Trump.
Top Democratic lawyer Marc Elias called her choice “an alarming choice,” citing her involvement in VRF.
Swoboda countered that Elias was “scared” of her.
“I think Mark is scared of me and I think they really tried to do a lot of damage in the last three days,” Swoboda said. “We need to sue, we need to protect ourselves from lawsuits. That's how they undermined the system in 2020, and we didn't see them coming. . We know where they are.”
While Mr. Elias expressed concern about Mr. Swoboda, he said he did not feel threatened by the possibility of further litigation.
Swoboda said the party needs more money to pursue the case against Elias and others. Swoboda said the AZGOP was “broken” and that there were financial unknowns dating back a year to the party's profits and losses. Mr Swoboda said the party was “running on fumes”.
“If we can't sue, we can't protect ourselves,” Swoboda said. “We have to tell them that. We can't sit here and wait and try to babble when it's too late and it's already started. We have to do it now. We are doing it now, but we need support to do it.”
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