{"id":608815,"date":"2024-02-16T06:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/maricopa-county-supervisor-announces-he-wont-seek-reelection\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T06:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T03:32:51","slug":"maricopa-county-supervisor-announces-he-wont-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maricopa-county-supervisor-announces-he-wont-seek-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"#Maricopa County Supervisor\u00a0announces he won\u2019t seek reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2b386f2d5dc14ed6927cc3ed0493262e.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman, who reportedly faced pressure from his party to potentially alter the results of the 2020 election, announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not seek another term as the county supervisor representing District 4,\u201d Hickman, a Republican representing cities including Goodyear and Avondale, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maricopa.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2875\">said<\/a> in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI am choosing to give my undivided attention to my wife, children, family business, and friends. I couldn\u2019t be more excited,\u201d Hickman continued. \u201cTo my constituents, thank you for trusting me to serve our West Valley. Never forget the power you have as voters to choose your representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His decision comes before the 2024 election season gets into full swing and following reports that former Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward contacted Hickman about the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p>Ward reportedly sent a text to Hickman a few days after the 2020 election in which she asked him to \u201cat least get an independent computer expert\u201d to check if his county had problems with the ballot count, according to a report from the Arizona Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Hickman was the chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors at the time, giving him the power to certify or delay the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot someone who already works there,\u201d she reportedly wrote. \u201cThese ballots can be counted manually, assuming nobody deleted the folder holding the ambiguous ballot scans. If the folder was deleted, federal data forensics teams could theoretically undelete it and perhaps track down the person who deleted it. What if election fraud was as easy as dragging votes from one folder to another?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ward reportedly called the claims \u201cBS.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The White House switchboard also called Hickman twice in January 2021 and an operator asked him to call the president back.<\/p>\n<p>Hickman told the Arizona Republic that he thought former President Trump was going to request that he change the 2020 election results or push election conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to walk into that space,\u201d Hickman told the outlet.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Fellow Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates praised Hickman in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, saying that it \u201chas been one of the greatest honors and privileges of my career to serve with\u201d Hickman for over seven years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Chairman in 2020, Clint Hickman faced intense pressure from leaders of our party to disregard his oath and to refuse to certify the results in the Presidential election,\u201d Gates <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billgatesaz\/status\/1758182494086840438\">said.<\/a> \u201cChairman Hickman\u2019s courage in standing up to this pressure and his commitment to doing the right thing have inspired my colleagues and I to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media Inc. 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