{"id":39337,"date":"2022-12-22T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=39337"},"modified":"2022-12-22T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:02:00","slug":"maricopa-county-and-the-arizona-election-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=39337","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County and the Arizona election mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. The midterm elections were a disappointment for Republicans on the Federal level. By rights, we should have regained control of the Senate and had a large number of gains in the House. The autopsy of what happened is ongoing. However, the GOP did rather well down ticket, except in Arizona.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve written a bit about the mess in Arizona<\/a> and Katie Hobb\u2019s actions. I\u2019ve also been following the civil actions being taken by Kari Lake who ran against Hobbs for the office of Governor. Since the election, and the \u201ccertification\u201d of the votes, Ms. Lake has filed legal actions regarding Ms. Hobs antics and threats, and more importantly, the apparent incompetence of Maricopa county and the potential that said incompetence may have disenfranchised thousands of voters and altered the actual election results.<\/p>\n

The race for Governor was decided by about 17,000 votes, and there are indications that there were a minimum of 15,000 votes that may have been tainted or lost in some way. Here are the details from Just the News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

R<\/b>ecently disclosed internal communications between top election officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County in the immediate aftermath of Election Day reveal that they struggled to\u00a0reconcile a discrepancy of almost 16,000 in outstanding ballot totals.\u00a0The governor’s race in Arizona was decided by a margin of just over 17,000 votes. <\/b><\/p>\n

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There were a massive number of problems on election day. Machines suddenly malfunctioning, people being told they had already voted when they hadn\u2019t and many other issues.<\/p>\n

Prior to a Maricopa County press conference with Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates and Recorder Stephen Richer on Nov. 10, Richer sent an email to Elections Director Scott Jarrett, Gates and others about a significant discrepancy between the county’s estimated remaining ballot totals and the number reported by the secretary of state’s office.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

And this is where things start to get \u201cinteresting.\u201d Katie Hobbs was the Secretary of State for Arizona in both the 2020 election debacle and the 2020 midterm elections. She was also running for governor. By rights, she should have recused herself from any official actions for the duration of the election. She refused to do so.<\/p>\n

“Unable to currently reconcile SOS listing with our estimates from yesterday,” Richer wrote, showing that Maricopa County estimated having 392,000 ballots left to be counted, while the secretary of state’s website said there were 407,664 ballots left.<\/b><\/p>\n

“So there’s a 15,000 difference somewhere,” Richer said, although the discrepancy cited was closer to16,000.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

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The article goes on to detail all the problems they had with the tabulators, and they were numerous. There were also reports that people either got the wrong ballots or no ballots for local races.<\/p>\n

The poll worker further reported that a voter who recently moved between cities within the state received a ballot for only federal elections, not state elections.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

Totally unacceptable,” the poll worker commented.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

“These errors need to be resolved,” the poll worker concluded. <\/b><\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t. This and other things led Candidate Kari Lake to file a lawsuit. I recently saw a clip from Viva Frei regarding the fiasco of the Maricopa election. The recommendation from the American Lawyer, (Frei is a Canadian lawyer), was that they need to do a run off election. He also said that Ms. Lake really has a very strong case to have the courts overturn the election.<\/p>\n

I have no information or knowledge of the state election laws in Arizona, so I will need to rely on the remarks by Attorney Robert Barnes. As I recall, he said that one of the remedies would be the courts awarding the election to Kari Lake. Here is the Viva Frei video on this.<\/p>\n