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Maricopa County Attorney Argues That Voters Who Wait Until Election Day to Vote Then Encounter Problems Reap What They Sow
Red State ^ | 12/22/2022 | Jennifer Van Laar

Posted on 12/22/2022 8:24:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind

During day 2 of the Kari Lake election trial in Phoenix, Arizona, Maricopa County attorney Tom Liddy argued that it was “political malpractice” for a campaign to tell voters to vote in person on election day instead of voting early, and that “you reap what you sow,” meaning that Lake’s campaign lost because of strategy, not because of a printer malfunction error that rendered the ballots incapable of being machine read, long lines that led to voters being unable to vote, or other malignantly incompetent actions on behalf of Maricopa County officials.

Now, playing devil’s advocate, it may well be that even with all of the malignant incompetence on behalf of the county that Hobbs still won. However, for a county attorney to excuse all of that away with references to those who want answers as “election deniers” who shouldn’t have any expectation of working voting machines on Election Day is reprehensible.

Maricopa County has now officially shown its hand. They HATE voters that choose to vote on election day @KariLake @KariLakeWarRoom pic.twitter.com/13Vq0Rivja

— George (@BehizyTweets) December 22, 2022

During his closing argument, Liddy said:

But those errors, or those mishaps by machines, if you will, the effect that had on election day voters was compounded, Your Honor, not by intentional misconduct by any employee or anybody under the control of Maricopa County, but by months and months and months of communication from the current leadership of the Republican Party of Arizona and the communications specialists of the Kari Lake for Governor campaign that said, do not vote early. Even if…you got an early ballot, don’t mail it, don’t drop it off at the drop box, 2000 Mules…go on election day and vote in person.

And Lord forbid, don’t ever put your ballot in the drop box, in the ballot box, or in drawer number 3, because there’s something very scary about drawer number 3, which is nothing but a ballot box. That’s what people all over the world do with their ballots. Vote it and stick it in the ballot box. But people were terrorized by that on election day. That’s not on Maricopa County. That’s on the Kari Lake for Governor campaign. That’s on the Dr. Kelli Ward-led Arizona Republican Party communications apparatus.

So we did not see — two days of testimony and all of those affidavits came in — evidence of a botched election. We saw evidence of a botched campaign, political malpractice. Who goes out and tells their voters, don’t vote on day one of early voting, day two, day three, all the way up to day 26 of early voting. Wait until the last second. That’s political malpractice. You reap what you sow.

Your Honor, the burden has not been met. When people come into this courtroom without evidence, there should be a day of reckoning. And this has been happening all over the country, Your Honor, and it’s gotta stop, and it’s gotta stop right now, and the place to stop it is right here in your courtroom, Your Honor, right here in Mesa, Arizona. This has gotta stop.

We’ve gotta get back to respecting elections, because that’s all we have, Your Honor. Different religions, different creeds, different ethnicities, different backgrounds, there’s only one thing that makes us Americans, and that’s, we believe in choosing our own election — our own rulers, our own governors, our own mayors, our own presidents, and we do that through elections.

He’s got a slightly warped understanding of what makes us Americans, and an even more warped view of what we’re voting for when we cast our ballots, but we’ll set all that aside for a moment.

What exactly does counsel mean by “without evidence”? Simply because he doesn’t agree with the evidence doesn’t mean that there is no evidence. On Wednesday, we learned that a printer setting error caused 42.5 percent of 113 ballots examined by Lake’s team to be invalid, because they were 19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper. On Thursday we learned more about that issue; Scott Jarrett admitted “under oath [that the] ballot fit to print issue was known and is being investigated but Maricopa County never informed the public.”

KARI LAKE TRIAL: AZ Co Elections Director – Scott Jarrett admits under oath ballot fit to print issue was known and is being investigated but Maricopa County never informed the public

This would suggest Katie Hobbs certified an election with ongoing printer issue investigations pic.twitter.com/ibEP4n006f

— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 22, 2022

We also learned that the ballot on demand printers (which they have to use because people from throughout the county can vote at any vote center) had issues on Election Day and that the county’s root cause analysis has not been completed as of this time.

KARI LAKE TRIAL: AZ Co Elections Director – Scott Jarrett is back and admits under oath that ballot on demand printers had issues on Election Day and they are STILL in the middle of their root cause analysis of the printer issues to this day pic.twitter.com/3t6ZmX0uRX

— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 22, 2022

And, we learned that the printer setting changes that caused the shrink-to-fit issue were enacted on Election Day.

.@KariLake Attorney Kurt Olson:

"Is it your testimony that the printer set changes that led to the so-called "shrink to fit" issue was that done on Election Day?"

Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett:

"That's correct." pic.twitter.com/JfZ3Wf4Mj6

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 22, 2022

Is there no way that they could have figured out sometime during the 12 hours the polls were open? The issue was noted almost immediately after polls opened.

This is just one small part of what came out during the trial.

As far as the Hobbs/Maricopa County team, their main expert is a professor at the University of Wisconsin who relied on the accuracy of the data that Maricopa County gave to him and wasn’t even in Maricopa County on Election Day. Well, of course the data that they gave the expert is going to say what they want it to say. Why wouldn’t it? Without any independent investigation of the accuracy of that evidence, there’s no way to have confidence in a single conclusion the expert drew.

Closing arguments wrapped up around 5:30 PM Arizona time, and Judge Peter Thompson informed the parties he will take the matter under advisement and issue a ruling “forthwith.”



TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: arizona; elections; karilake; maricopa; maricopatruththread; voterfraud
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To: SeekAndFind

Liddy is old enough to know that voting on election day always worked out fine until the last few years. A judge should ask him exactly what he thinks has changed.


21 posted on 12/22/2022 9:42:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Bryan24

I’d add:

6. No machine connectivity. If any voting machine is found to have connected to the internet between quarantine until after the votes have been tabulated, the person responsible for ensuring that machine’s quarantine status shall face criminal charges under the presumption of failing to adequately secure the machine(s) in question.

7. Mandatory audit logs. Audit logs of all machines shall be kept until 2 years after election day, and shall be made available to legal teams of all parties on the ballots in question. If any audit log is missing, corrupted, or lacks necessary information to determine who accessed the machine, before or after the quarantine period, or if any log shows that changes were made to a voting machine after the quarantine period, then criminal charges shall be filed against those who accessed the machine and those who failed to ensure the security of the machine.

8. Final ballot count. Every precinct shall make and post a public statement attesting to how many apparently valid ballots each has received no later than an hour after closing time, or an hour after the last voter who was admitted prior to closing time, has voted, subject to the condition that such delayed voters legitimately waited to vote, on machines that were legitimately occupied by other voters, and such that no machines were sitting idle while voters were awaiting for the opening of other machines.

9. Not too many spoiled ballots. Any precinct reporting a combined number of invalid, spoiled, or needing-adjudication ballots in excess of 2% of the total they have received will be recounted by hand by members of the legal teams of all parties receiving more than 10% of the vote.


22 posted on 12/22/2022 9:54:39 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Only a dimmocommie would have the stupidity to say such a thing. For years upon years, we voted on ONE DAY. And it was fine. This spreading voting out over weeks caused the problems we’re now seeing. And it is the responsibility of the electoral workers to make sure there are enough ballots, scanners are working properly, etc. so that when voters come in on VOTING DAY, everything works smoothly. This lawyer is utterly full of dimmcommie crud.


23 posted on 12/22/2022 10:21:35 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind

The Judge will still punt in the end


24 posted on 12/22/2022 10:33:25 PM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: Stanwood_Dave

Big fan of the G-man here.

He would be ashamed of his son.


25 posted on 12/23/2022 1:07:17 AM PST by lizma2
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To: SeekAndFind

He lectured the judge on the law in his closing remarks. I wonder how that went over with the judge?


26 posted on 12/23/2022 1:21:10 AM PST by teletech (you)
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To: Buttons12

Tom Liddy is an American attorney and political candidate in Maricopa County, Arizona. He is the son of the Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy.


27 posted on 12/23/2022 3:18:33 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: SeekAndFind
They sound like James Comey.


28 posted on 12/23/2022 3:39:45 AM PST by 4Liberty (Kamala’s relatives owned slaves.)
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To: SERKIT
How DARE you want to vote on election day!!

Liddy's argument comes down to, "You effed up. You trusted us."

Sadly, trusting the judge to do the right thing will likely yield a similar ruling.

29 posted on 12/23/2022 3:48:41 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SeekAndFind

Talk about weak, asinine excuses.


30 posted on 12/23/2022 5:09:36 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Sirius Lee

If history is any indication, you’re right.

But we’ll see. There were around 600k views... on Rumble.

People are paying attention to this case and judge.


31 posted on 12/23/2022 5:13:04 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: 38special
The Judge will still punt in the end

It will be an interesting (and perhaps final) test of the state of American judicial independence.

32 posted on 12/23/2022 5:19:08 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: SeekAndFind

https://patriots.win/p/16ZXet3por/maricopa-county-attorney-argues-/c/

A reply at the above thread...

“–CrackerJack2 9 hours ago +18 / -0
In the end,
if Kari Lake didn’t tell most people to wait until election day we wouldn’t have had all of this discovery about new ways of cheating, and she would have probably lost.

We now are even more equipped to fight the voting machines and these Democrats and RINOs.

Time for another vote!”

Paging Ron DeSantis...


33 posted on 12/23/2022 5:22:13 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lawyers — like most everyone — can pretty much talk themselves into believing anything ... and coming up with fine-sounding justification — no matter how inane; no matter how much damage it causes — for what they believe.


34 posted on 12/23/2022 5:24:21 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We need a rope and a tall tree!!!


35 posted on 12/23/2022 5:39:43 AM PST by Agatsu77
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