Posted on 11/08/2022 12:43:14 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Problems with dozens of electronic vote counting machines in the battleground state of Arizona on Tuesday were seized upon by former Republican President Donald Trump and his followers, who falsely claimed it was evidence of election fraud by Democrats.
The state's Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who has echoed Trump's false claims of a stolen 2020 election, also seized on the machine problems, issuing a "voter alert" on her Twitter account.
Trump, Lake and other election deniers have been calling for the end of electronic voting machines, Election Day-only voting, and the use of just paper ballots and hand counts.
Barbara Russell, 70, a volunteer Republican poll observer at a voting location in Wickenburg, a town in rural Maricopa County, told Reuters that both tabulation machines there had been malfunctioning and rejecting ballots.
"This is the total disenfranchisement of rural voters," Russell told Reuters.
Paul Penzone, the Maricopa County Sheriff, said additional deputies had been deployed to polling locations. Barricades were erected around the county's elections office in central Phoenix in anticipation of potential protests.
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So Reuters, AZ has had 2 years to get this right and test these machines, why are there such issue like this and isn’t it the least bit possible someone might take advantage of this situation or maybe had a hand in it?
I agree, let’s go back to paper ballots. Let’s do it the way it was done decades ago. Electronic voting machines, in every election, seem to have these unexplained glitches.
They are stealing it in front of our very eyes and they are going to say “Take it and enjoy it”
They write as if it’s some sort of leap of logic to think it is shenanigans.
This whole thing of garbo labeling us as ‘election deniers’ is going to backfire so hard in their faces not sure it will remotely be funny.
Never have those problems with plain old paper ballots.
Republicans pounce!
Nope. No bias there.
Reuters(D).
Move along. Nothing to see here.
I think Rooters' conclusion is "without evidence".
Jimmy “Peanuts” Carter [PBUH] tested the machines the other day and declared them to be in perfect working order [for stealing elections in Maricopa County].
Timmy boy needs to learn the difference between a news report and an editorial.
Election Investigators
Prediction: the phrase “election deniers” will disappear once the dems start denying this election all over the place.
This IS satire.....right?
“Republicans pounce!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that to any real recent actual positive effect to the Constitution or blind equally applied law.
“who falsely claimed it was evidence of election fraud by Democrats.”
How would Reuters (D) know whether this is false or not already?
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