IMPORTANCE OF THE 'CHAIN OF CUSTODY".
The futility of the hand audit/recount of Maricopa County’s ballots hinges upon two issues:
1] The Arizona State Senate’s order to turn over the ballots to an outside organization has terminated the “chain of custody”, making that audit’s outcomes impossible to verify.
2] Previous recounts and audits were done by trained personnel, who retained the “chain of custody” and those recounts/audits verified the initial results.
In honor of that Constitution Day, I’m posting an article out of Florida and asking some questions about the Constitutionality of state efforts to support or oppose state constitutional amendments. Your thoughts, concerns, questions, and/or reactions are solicited. Issue: Is Florida’s use of police power to question signers of a petition to amend the state’s constitution appropriate and constitutional? Police are questioning Florida voters about signing an abortion rights ballot petition https://apnews.com/article/florida-abortion-ballot-amendment-elections-police-cfd4e3479498e63e65f1116acd95f7be?user_email=85a5e31f8cb9543141697042262e5f44096be2eb9e8745228d8b4349029af0da&utm_medium=Morning_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=Morning%20Wire_10%20Sept_2024&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers AP reports the use of Florida’s new elections police to investigate Floridians who signed a petition, placing on the November ballot a constitutional amendment on ab...
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