{"id":1628416,"date":"2022-08-31T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628416"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:49:15","slug":"arizona-supreme-court-soros-backed-ballot-measure-to-roll-back-election-law-cant-be-on-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-supreme-court-soros-backed-ballot-measure-to-roll-back-election-law-cant-be-on-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Supreme Court: Soros-Backed Ballot Measure to Roll Back Election Law Can\u2019t be on Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-supreme-court-soros-backed-ballot-measure-to-roll-back-election-law-cant-be-on-ballot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A ballot measure backed by billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-george-soros\">George Soros<\/a> will not be on November\u2019s ballot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a> after the state\u2019s Supreme Court ruled the measure didn\u2019t have enough signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 26 ruling upheld one hours earlier from\u00a0Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Mikitish, who said that the initiative was disqualified because not enough valid signatures were gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Mikitish said the measure was lacking 1,458 signatures,\u00a0KPNX-TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/judge-says-arizona-voting-measure-fails\/75-ecaf89bc-b0f1-49fe-9c81-1979a36cbc3c\">reported<\/a>. Just one day earlier, he said the campaign had 2,281 extra signatures. The update came after the Arizona Supreme Court ordered him to outline how he reached the latter number.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s top court said that it affirmed Mikitish\u2019s ruling and would issue a written opinion detailing its reasoning \u201cin due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, Proposition 210, needed 237,645 signatures to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot. Backers submitted 475,290 signatures, but tens of thousands were rejected during a review by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, and others were deemed invalid by county officials.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is now removed from the ballot, according to Hobbs\u2019 office.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs had certified the initiative on Aug. 23, based on a random sample of the signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Arizonans for Free and Fair Elections led the campaign, backed by several Soros-funded groups such as the Open Society Foundation.<\/p>\n<p> Changes to Election Rules <\/p>\n<p>The measure (<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.arizona.vote\/info\/assets\/33\/0\/BallotMeasures\/I-16-2022%20Title%20and%20Text%20and%20Certificate.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) would prevent the state legislature from overturning presidential election results,\u00a0override a Republican-passed bill that imposed stricter requirements on an early voting list, and decriminalize turning in another person\u2019s ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a hard fought battle to ensure that Arizonans have voting rights in our great state, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that we will not be on the ballot for this November,\u201d Arizonans for Free and Fair Elections said in a statement. \u201cThe Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the voices of Arizonans do not matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ballot measure backed by billionaire George Soros will not be on November\u2019s ballot in Arizona after the state\u2019s Supreme Court ruled the measure didn\u2019t have enough signatures. The Aug. 26 ruling upheld one hours earlier from\u00a0Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Mikitish, who said that the initiative was disqualified because not enough valid signatures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}