Opinion: Arizona Republicans are now 0-27 in their efforts to overturn our elections, with no end in sight to what’s clearly an appallingly poor campaign strategy.
Laurie Roberts
Arizona Republic
The Arizona Republican Party on Tuesday lost yet another case in the ongoing, unending failed attempts to challenge the results of the state’s elections.
I’ve lost track of what this particular lawsuit claimed. Something about the party’s outrage that a state-mandated sample hand count audit of ballots in 2020 — one that turned up zero evidence of a problem — was done at voting centers rather than precincts.Suffice it to say, the party lost. Again.
And now has been ordered by the Arizona Court of Appeals to pay nearly $9,000 to cover the taxpayers’ cost of the appeal. That’s in addition to $18,000 already awarded to cover the taxpayers’ cost of defending the lawsuit.
Donors fund winners, not loser lawsuits
While $27,000 sounds like pocket change, it’s more than half of what the state Republican Party had in the bank as of March 31, according to federal filings.
Money has flown out the door in the once-Grand Old Party’s now three-year-old quest to overturn the election, with precious little coming in to replace it.
At this point four years ago, Reuters reports the state party had nearly $770,000.
It seems big GOP donors prefer backing winning candidates to backing losing lawsuits — or paying lawyers to fend off trouble from the fake elector scandal.
