Pinal County Courthouse./ Kevin Reagan/PinalCentral (2017)
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Pinal Central
A Pinal County judge is being urged to toss out the latest — and possibly the last — challenge to the results of the presidential race in Arizona and the awarding of the state’s 11 electoral college votes to Joe Biden.
Roopali Desai, who represents Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, told Judge Kevin White on Monday that Arizona law requires anyone filing a lawsuit contesting election results to be a “qualified elector.’’ And that, she said, means they need to be registered to vote.
Only thing is, she is not currently registered. Nor was the Pinal County resident registered — or voted — in the just-completed election.
She argued that the only thing required is that she be eligible to register to vote. And she complained that her registration was illegally canceled because someone could not figure out where she lived because she is covered under the state’s “address protection’’ program which allows certain people, including domestic violence victims, to remove their addresses from public records.
