据美国保守派媒体布莱巴特新闻（Breitbart News）报导，沃德周五宣布上述消息时表示，如果这次的上诉被受理，该案将成为美国最高法院所受理的有关2020年总统选举的第三个舞弊案。
沃德解释说，他们之所以把案子上诉到最高法院，是因为该州没有遵守适当的程序。她说：“在我们看来，没有适当的程序是违宪的，是时候可以提出案子、发现并举行整体听证会了。”
沃德表示，法官设定了不切实际的期限，实际上只给了原告3天的时间来检查多达300万张选票，那是不可能完成的。她指出，每个人都知道选择下一任总统是一件很重要的事，但共和党人却没有足够的时间来完成需要做的全部工作，这是不合理的。
她说：“媒体总喜欢说，‘向我们展示证据’。我们找到了证据，但是之后我们却没有足够的时间去发现更多的证据，因为他们将证据隐藏了。”她批评民主党人并不关心问责制、透明度或选举的诚信性。
据公开资讯，今年 11月30日，亚利桑那州马里科帕县法院宣布，允许该州共和党人检验邮寄选票信封样本上的签名，以便核实该州在大选中是否存在舞弊现象。但法院仅授权提起诉讼的共和党人检查200张选票签名。沃德认为，样本数量太少不能说明问题，她要求审核更多数量的选票。然而，在共和党人仅仅检查了1000多张邮寄选票后，地方当局就匆匆将所有的选票都封存起来，不让他们继续检查下去。
亚利桑那州最高法院之后驳回了沃德（Ward）的诉讼，理由是，原告提供的1,626份重复的选票样本，并不能证明当地存在足以改变选举结果的大规模舞弊的风险。沃德等原告认为，证据数量不足的根本原因是，地方当局没有给他们足够的时间去检查更多的选票，他们来不及去发现更多的证据，因此他们决定，将此案提交到联邦最高法院。
Arizona Republican Party Chairman Kelli Ward (D). (Ralph Freso/Getty Images)
[China Watch, Dec. 11, 2020] - Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward announced Friday (11) that a lawsuit filed by the state's Republicans over election fraud will go to the Supreme Court. Ward stressed that they had already found evidence, but local authorities quickly hid the evidence, leaving them too late to discover more.
If the appeal is accepted, the case will become the third fraud case in the 2020 presidential election before the U.S. Supreme Court, Ward said in his announcement Friday, according to Breitbart News, a conservative U.S. media outlet.
Ward explained that they appealed the case to the Supreme Court because the state did not follow proper procedures. She said, "In our view, the lack of due process is unconstitutional and it's time for a case to be brought, for discovery and for a holistic hearing to be held."
Ward said the judge set an unrealistic deadline, effectively giving the plaintiffs only three days to examine up to 3 million ballots, and that was impossible to accomplish. She noted that everyone knows choosing the next president is an important matter, but it's unreasonable that Republicans don't have enough time to do all the work that needs to be done.
The media always likes to say, 'Show us the evidence,'" she said. We find the evidence, but then we don't have enough time to find more evidence because they hide it." She criticized Democrats for not caring about accountability, transparency or the integrity of elections.
According to public information, on Nov. 30 of this year, a court in Maricopa County, Arizona, announced that it would allow the state's Republicans to examine signatures on sample mail-in ballot envelopes in order to verify whether there was fraud in the state in the general election. But the court authorized only 200 ballot signatures to be examined by the Republicans who filed the lawsuit. Ward argued that the sample size was too small to tell the story, and she asked for a larger number of ballots to be audited. However, after the Republicans examined just over 1,000 mail-in ballots, local authorities hastily sealed all the ballots and prevented them from continuing to examine them.
The Arizona Supreme Court later dismissed Ward's (R) lawsuit on the grounds that the 1,626 duplicate ballot samples provided by the plaintiffs did not establish a local risk of large-scale fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the election. Ward and the other plaintiffs argued that the underlying reason for the insufficient amount of evidence was that local authorities did not give them enough time to examine more ballots and they were too late to discover more evidence, so they decided, instead, to take the case to the federal Supreme Court.
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