Two Arizona Republican activists reasserted their demand for an audit of the state party’s recent leadership election. If they don’t get their way, they’ll sue, attorney Timothy La Sota wrote in a letter to the Arizona GOP’s general counsel.
Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward rejected requests for an audit of the party’s elections last week, including for her own race for party chair.
Arizona GOP Chair Scoffs at Audit of Own Election Win While Leading Challenge to Trump Loss
On 1/30/21 at 4:59 PM EST
Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward is rejecting Republican demands for an audit of her narrow chair re-election victory last week despite still leading stop the steal efforts to overturn President Joe Biden s election win over Donald Trump.
Ward won a second term as the state s Republican Party chair by 42 votes during last Saturday s election, but is now facing demands from her competitor and fellow party members for a full audit of the results. Ward, speaking with a Phoenix-based conservative radio host Saturday, scoffed at growing claims of election irregularities from Arizona Republicans including Committeeman Trey Terry and Tucson business owner Sergio Arellano, who placed second behind Ward in the chairperson contest. Ward campaigned on election integrity and is spearheading an ongoing push for a full forensic audit of Biden s November election victory
Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward rejects calls for audit of party elections
Kelli Ward on Friday rejected calls for an audit into her recent reelection as the chair of the Arizona Republican Party and other party races, arguing that the state GOP does not have the structure to review them.
“We don’t have the structure to be able to do an audit,” she said on KFYI’s radio show “The Conservative Circus with James T. Harris,” adding, “But we welcome their input to make elections bigger.”
She added that the structure for an audit “doesn’t exist in our process, our procedures, our bylaws, in statute.”