Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has come under fire for her handling of the electronic system used to collect online signatures for political candidates, E-Qual. The system was not updated to accommodate new redistricting, which has made it very difficult for campaigns to collect enough signatures in time to make the ballot this fall. On March 17, Hobbs took the entire system offline, making it impossible to collect signatures, so Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked Cochise County Attorney Brian McIntyre on March 29 to “investigate and take any appropriate enforcement actions (civil and criminal).”
McIntyre told The Arizona Sun Times, “I can confirm that we have received the request and begun the investigative process.”
State Rep. Mark Finchem (R-Oro Valley), who is running for Arizona Secretary of State, said during Steve Bannon’s War Room that he believes Hobbs will be convicted. “I don’t see how this doesn’t end up in some kind of a conviction. I think it will go to court. … Obviously, she’s going to make all kinds of claims, but at the end of the day, she committed a crime.”
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