Two candidates for the Arizona Republican Party's executive committee who lost their January elections are suing state party Chair Kelli Ward to force an audit of the results.
Two Republican activists are suing the Arizona Republican Party and its chair Kelli Ward over her refusals to allow an audit of the results and procedures used for the state party s January elections.
In a complaint filed Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court, an attorney for William Beard and Sandra Dowling asked a judge to require the state party to explain why it shouldn’t conduct an audit, noting that further delay only makes the situation worse for Dowling while there is no harm at all to doing the audit. Without Court intervention, the audit simply will not happen, attorney Tim La Sota argued in court papers. . The balance of harm in this case could hardly be starker.
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A pair of Republican activists sued the Arizona Republican Party and recently reelected Chairwoman Kelli Ward following her refusal to conduct an audit of the results and procedures used for the state GOP s January elections.
The plaintiffs in the complaint, William Beard and Sandra Dowling, filed their lawsuit in Maricopa Superior Court on Friday, asking a judge to require the state party to explain why it should not conduct an audit of Ward s election.
Tucson businessman Sergio Arellano, who came in second place in the race to lead the state GOP, requested a recount in January after she won the election by only 42 votes in a runoff.
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