On Saturday, President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit in Arizona alleging that Maricopa County incorrectly rejected votes cast by in-person voters on Election Day.
When a machine detects an overvote on a ballot, poll workers should inform in-person voters of the error and give them an opportunity to correct the issue. Instead, poll workers in Maricopa County pressed, or told voters to press, a green button to override the error. As a result, the machines disregarded the voter’s choices in the overvoted races.
The issue was first brought to the attention of attorney Alexander Kolodin, a voter integrity lawyer in Arizona. The Kolodin Law Group and the Public Interest Legal Foundation had filed a lawsuit on behalf of Laurie Aguilera, a registered voter in Maricopa County, after the election integrity activists received approximately 400 complaints from voters.
The campaign has collected declarations from voters who witnessed the problem and alleges that the problem occurred on a large scale in Maricopa County. Voters can submit additional declarations at DontTouchTheGreenButton.com.
“Poll workers struggled to operate the new voting machines in Maricopa County, and improperly pressed and told voters to press a green button to override significant errors,” said Matt Morgan, Trump 2020 campaign general counsel. “The result is that the voting machines disregarded votes cast by voters in person on Election Day in Maricopa County.”
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“When we first raised concerns with respect to bleed-through on ballots, people called us crazy. Today President Trump, the RNC, and the AZ GOP filed an action to enjoin certification of Arizona’s vote count on the basis of the irregularities over which first sued,” said Kolodin. “Today has revealed what we really are. Not ranting lunatics but the bloodhounds who sniff out inequity, the vanguards who open the breach, and the first to the fight. Today, after enduring the scorn of an entire planet in the cause of truth, vindication feels so good.”
The suit asks the court to order the manual inspection of purportedly overvoted ballots that were cast in-person, the same way that elections officials examined overvoted ballots that were mailed in or dropped off.