Almost one week after the Nov. 8th election, (that by all indications should have been a shoo-in for GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake), AZ Democrat SOS Katie Hobbs was declared the winner of the governor’s race.
The race was lost for Lake in the heavily populated Republican Maricopa County where according to Uplift Data tracking service, Republicans had 52.7% of the vote on Election Day, while Democrats had 16.6% of the vote.
AZ GOP Attorney General candidate, Abe Hamadeh, who was also expected to win his race, is now suing election officials across the state of Arizona, alleging that “incompetence and mismanagement” caused “pervasive errors” in the midterm elections.
Six AZ residents gave stunning eye-witness testimony of the corruption and incompetence in Maricopa County on election day.
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U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (R-AZ) is now calling for a redo of the election in Maricopa County, citing “30% of the tabulation machines” that were “inoperable,” and “2 hours long” lines that were created as a result of the chaos at the polling places where thousands of mostly Republican voters could not wait hours to vote and left.
Breaking Digest reported that according to a report in Time, Lake’s campaign spent $2 million to monitor the counting of votes and to be prepared with lawsuits based on the facts when necessary. Forty lawyers were in one central “war room” while roving attorneys monitored polling places and vote-counting operations.
A glimpse at what the Lake campaign might use as fodder for its lawsuits was shared with The Western Journal in the form of a report from Mark Sonnenklar about what the roving attorneys saw on Election Day. The Western Journal has not independently verified the claims in this report.
Sonnenklar said 10 roving attorneys out of 16 responded to a survey he sent them, and that his report covers 115 voting places out of the 223 places in Maricopa County.
Overall, he wrote, “72 of the 115 vote centers (62.61%) we visited had material problems with the tabulators not being able to tabulate ballots, causing voters to either deposit their ballots into box 3, spoil their ballots and re-vote, or get frustrated and leave the vote center without voting.”
The report said the findings contradict county officials that only 70 polling places had issues and that they were “insignificant in the entire scheme of the election.
The other major finding in the report was that at “59 of the 115 vote centers we visited (51.30%). In many cases, voters had to wait 1-2 hours before they received a ballot for voting.”
Sonnenklar noted that “because Republican voters significantly outnumbered Democrat voters in the County on election day, such voter suppression would necessarily impact the vote tallies for Republican candidates much more than the vote tallies for Democrat candidates.”
Sonnenklar tied the two issues together.
“It seems very clear that the printer/tabulator failures on election day at 62.61 percent of the vote centers observed by 11 roving attorneys, and the resulting long lines at a majority of all vote centers, led to substantial voter suppression,” he wrote.
