Maricopa County Election audit: DOJ partisan sharks in the tank

The Epoch Times’ Jack Phillips reports another bombshell as it relates to

the ongoing ballot audit. Headlined, “GOP Chair Elise Stefanik: Justice Department Is ‘Trying to Block’ Maricopa County Audit,”it is a must read. 

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who was recently elected as the House Republican Conference chair, replacing ousted Liz Cheney, said the Department of Justice’s questions about the audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona, may be unconstitutional.

“I support that audit,” Stefanik said after being asked about the audit in a Fox Business interview Sunday. “Transparency is good for the American people. And again, this should be a non-partisan issue, whether you are Republican, Democrat, independent, or conservative, transparency is important and the audit was passed by the Arizona State Senate.”

Stefanik later said that the “Biden Department of Justice is trying to block that audit,” which she said, “is unconstitutional from my perspective,” adding, “Our states, constitutionally, are responsible for writing states’ constitution law.”

Pamela Karlan, (check link) an ill-mannered, left-wing partisan and principal deputy assistant attorney general with the Biden administration’s Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, sent this May 5 letter to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R-LD1) that a “description of the proposed work of the audit raises concerns regarding potential intimidation of voters.” Fann, in response, said that the plan by election auditors to verify the validity of certain individual voters was placed on hold.

“If and to the extent the Senate subsequently decides that canvassing is necessary to the successful completion of the audit, its vendor will implement detailed requirements to ensure that the canvassing is conducted in a manner that complies fully with the commands of the United States Constitution and federal and state civil rights laws,” Fann wrote earlier this month.

Stefanik’s comments Sunday came just days after Dominion Voting Systems and Maricopa County officials said they would not provide passwords for election machines in Maricopa County. Dominion argued that it would comply with the audit, but it added that Cyber Ninjas, the company hired by the Arizona Senate, isn’t accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Stefanik, who was supported by former President Trump and GOP House leaders, was approved by House Republicans in a 134 to 46 vote last week to chair the Republican Conference, the party’s Number 3 position in the House of Representatives.