Stevenson v. Ducey

With statements from 3 experts and 2 other witnesses, lawyer David Spilsbury filed this lawsuit in the Superior Court of Maricopa County, Arizona, on behalf of 3 Trump electors. The largest city in Arizona, Phoenix, is in Maricopa County. The lawsuit claimed "absentee ballot error rates never seen before" because "elected officials acted to systematically eviscerate Arizona’a [sic] Election Law."

Specifically, it claimed that a charity called Center for Tech and Civic Live (CTCL), founded by Mark Zuckerburg (of Facebook), had gifted roughly $3 million to election officials in Maricopa County. As a result, the suit claimed, many absentee ballots were received by voters who had not requested them, that many voters had the same names as people who had moved out of Arizona, and sometimes two votes were cast under the same name in the same election. In total, the lawsuit claimed that these errors affected about 371,498 ballots — far more than the 10,457 vote margin of victory. It implied that election officials were paid to violate their legal responsiblities.

The lawsuit was filed Friday, Dec 4th. On Monday, Dec 7th, three things happened: 1) Judge David Palmer was assigned the case, and scheduled a conference to discuss the trial schedule. 2) CTCL filed a brief claiming that they were a non-partisan civic charity, hadn't done anything wrong, and hadn't encouraged anyone else to do anything wrong, and 3) Spilsbury withdrew his lawsuit without explaining why.