(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich delegated his prosecutorial power to the Cochise County Attorney so that he can file civil or criminal charges against Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who may be violating numerous election laws, the Gateway Pundit reported.
The delegation does not relate to Hobbs’s unilateral and unlawful changes to Arizona’s election system before the 2020 elections but to a recent election-law violation.
Hobbs—whose candidacy was backed by billionaire oligarch George Soros as part of his “Secretary of State Project“—shut down the state’s E-Qual system, which lets voters sign online petitions to get candidates on the ballot or to donate $5 to their campaigns.
Brnovich wrote in a letter that Arizona state law requires the secretary of state “to provide a system for qualified electors to sign a nomination petition for candidates for the State Legislature and Congress.”
Hobbs’s office said that candidates could use the online portal to gather signatures until April 4, 2022, but that the system would come down on March 6.
Hobbs took E-Qual offline on March 17.
Brnovich’s office warned Hobbs that the early shutdown would violate state law, so she sued the Attorney General’s Office. The lawsuit failed, but she shut down the system for certain counties, includingg Cochise.
Statewide candidates, like Hobbs herself, can still use the E-Qual system.
Cochise County Attorney Brian McIntyre could file charges against Hobbs for failing to uphold her duties as an elected official.
Brnovich wrote that a public official “who knowingly fails or refuses to perform that duty in the manner prescribed by law or knowingly acts in violation of any provision of such law, is guilty of either a class 6 felony or class 3 misdemeanor.”
Brnovich warned Hobbs that her actions could result in a prison sentence.
Hobbs fired back at Brnovich.
“The attorney general’s continued attacks on election officials across the state for doing our jobs is ridiculous,” she said in a statement, according to Tucson.com.
