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A Weekly Dose of President Trump- Trump Family Train November 1, 2022
Free Republic ^ | 11/1/2022 | Deplorables

Posted on 11/01/2022 6:19:34 AM PDT by weston



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KEYWORDS: dh; redwave; trump; trumpfamilytrain; trumptrain45
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To: Jane Long; Irish Eyes; freepersup

County under a cloud: Maricopa’s decade-long history of election issues, from 2012 to 2022

Maricopa County’s handling of elections in 2022 is “yet another disgrace in a long line of disgraces,” said Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem.

By Natalia Mittelstadt Just the News
As voters, poll workers, and observers have voiced their concerns about issues they witnessed on Election Day in Maricopa County, Ariz., a review of the county’s history shows 10 years of election issues under various election officials.

Numerous issues occurred at vote centers on Election Day in Maricopa County earlier this month, from election machine problems to hours-long lines, according to widespread reports. However, election issues are not unique to the 2022 midterms in Maricopa, as some began a decade ago.

During the 2012 presidential general election in Maricopa County, key races went undecided for two weeks after Election Day as a result of “record numbers of provisional and early ballots” remaining uncounted after polls closed, according to the Arizona Republic. The outlet said that “Arizona was embarrassed on the national stage.”

In the 2014 midterm election, despite a decrease in voter turnout, there were still days-long delays in counting early votes, attributable to most of the counties in Arizona stopping their count of early ballots between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. the Monday before an election to prepare for Election Day, the Arizona Republic reported. As a result, mailed-in early ballots that arrive after that time and early ballots hand-delivered on Election Day have to wait to be counted.

During the 2014 election, more than 75% of the 34,000 valid provisional ballots were cast by voters who went to the polls anyway, even after receiving their early ballot, according to the Republic. (The outlet noted that this was also an issue during the 2012 election.)

Despite a new e-poll system that was designed to direct voters to their correct polling location if they arrived at the wrong one, there were still 2,800 provisional ballots cast at incorrect polling locations in 2014.

“With e-poll books, theoretically that number should be zero,” the Maricopa County Recorder’s spokesperson said at the time, according to the Republic.

During the 2016 primary election, the number of polling locations in Maricopa County was reduced to 60, but voters could vote at any location, rather than being assigned to one. However, with 1.25 million eligible in-person voters at the time, this reduction of polling places from more than 200 in the 2012 presidential primary, and 400 in the 2008 presidential primary, caused hours-long lines.

At one polling location in 2016, between 600 and 700 voters waited in line for more than three hours to vote, and a poll worker told voters at one point that they had run out of ballots. Another location had some voters wait until after midnight to cast their votes due to long lines, even though polls closed at 7 p.m.

The Obama Justice Department sent a letter to the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office after the 2016 primary inquiring about the election issues, which occurred under Helen Purcell, a Republican who had held the office since winning the 1988 election. Amid these issues, Purcell lost her 2016 reelection race for county recorder to Democrat Adrian Fontes.

Two years later, leading up to the 2018 midterm primary election, then-Maricopa County Recorder Fontes, who is expected to be certified as the winner of the 2022 secretary of state election on Dec. 5, revealed his plan to change how elections were conducted the week before Election Day.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors was concerned about the significant changes made by the new recorder with little notice beforehand.

On primary Election Day in 2018, dozens of polling locations failed to open on time due to technical issues with election machines. The recorder’s office initially claimed the issue was due to the election machine contractor not providing enough workers to set up. However, the contractor said that they provided more than enough workers but that the county “failed to provide a setup and coordination schedule” for their technicians and the county troubleshooters.

After the 2018 election, the county’s Board of Supervisors retook control over Election Day voting from the recorder’s office, limiting Fontes’ election responsibilities to overseeing voter registration and early voting.

The current recorder, Republican Stephen Richer, defeated Fontes in the 2020 election, vowing to tighten up and depoliticize the chronic maladministration of elections in the county, but after taking office he emerged as an often acerbic critic of GOP efforts to audit the disputed 2020 election in the county and tighten election security. In 2021, Richer started a political action committee, funded by Democrats, that supports Republican candidates who “acknowledge the validity of the 2020 election and condemn the events of January 6, 2021 as a terrible result of the lies told about the November election,” according to a press statement announcing the PAC’s creation.

Read more.......

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/maricopa-countys-decade-long-history-election-issues-2012-2022nn

John Solomon is on with Charlie Kirk discussing this.


7,341 posted on 11/30/2022 9:52:36 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

🚨BREAKING:
@ElonMusk
says Twitter has “interfered in elections” and that “Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed”.


7,342 posted on 11/30/2022 10:09:30 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: exit82

Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
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2m

House approves bill to bar national railroad strike.

The vote: 290-137

The next vote is on adding 7 days of paid leave for rail workers.


7,343 posted on 11/30/2022 10:11:43 AM PST by exit82 (Either the Democrat Party will survive or America will survive. But not both.)
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To: exit82

Liz Wheeler
@Liz_Wheeler
·
11m

Masks are useless.
The covid vaxx is dangerous.
(And ineffective.)
Mandates are evil.
Lockdowns are tyranny.
Fauci funded the virus.
Big Pharma’s in bed with the swamp.
WHO is controlled (by) the CCP.
The virus isn’t dangerous to most.

Free speech feels so good.


7,344 posted on 11/30/2022 10:13:12 AM PST by exit82 (Either the Democrat Party will survive or America will survive. But not both.)
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To: CottonBall

Thanks!
I thought it pretty well summed him up!
*evil grin*


7,345 posted on 11/30/2022 10:17:22 AM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history!)
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To: exit82

BREAKING: CNN's new CEO Chris Licht informs employees of new layoffs underway as mass purge continues:

"Today we will notify a limited number of individuals, largely some of our paid contributors, as part of a recalibrated reporting strategy" pic.twitter.com/qSpeaaEJqH— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 30, 2022


7,346 posted on 11/30/2022 10:19:14 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Indeed….that IS the question of the day.

I have seen a few how we fix it posts, on the forum.

Maybe the Rs are reading them 🙃


7,347 posted on 11/30/2022 10:19:23 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Jane Long

Welcome, good stuff there.


7,348 posted on 11/30/2022 10:19:45 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Phew - missed us! I hope Jemian and CB are ok!


7,349 posted on 11/30/2022 10:20:23 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: Lakeside Granny

Hmmmm ‘recalibrated reporting strategy’, eh?

Wouldn’t it be something if that INCLUDED reporting the TRUTH???


7,350 posted on 11/30/2022 10:20:53 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: exit82

Ha! Love Liz’ free speech/truth tweet!


7,351 posted on 11/30/2022 10:21:47 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Lakeside Granny

A lot of the cheating the dems have declared lawful. Then there are the “mistakes”. I guess we can make “mistakes” too.


7,352 posted on 11/30/2022 10:22:10 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Incompetence. Planned?


7,353 posted on 11/30/2022 10:25:50 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Rusty0604

Have you seen the video about Balenciaga that Noah featured on his Nightly News Letter?

It was banned on you tube, so he put it on Rumble.

My God!
It showed a young teenagers back after he was flayed, children taped to chairs, a blood soaked bed and bedroom cigarette butts everywhere titled “It’s that kinda morning.”
That was the milder(!) stuff!
My God, what have we become?
I’m just sickened!


7,354 posted on 11/30/2022 10:27:05 AM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history!)
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To: Lakeside Granny
Here's the CNN announcement:


7,355 posted on 11/30/2022 10:29:11 AM PST by exit82 (Either the Democrat Party will survive or America will survive. But not both.)
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To: Jane Long; Lakeside Granny

People need to get the positions or jobs where they can detect these frauds. I feel bad because I sit here saying what needs to be done instead of doing anything. But I have limited energy and financial resources, and I live in the most Republican district in the country, so I can’t just relocate where I’m needed. I did make phone calls to other states for Trump in 2020. Any suggestions? I don’t think GOTV works anymore because it’s not the votes that count


7,356 posted on 11/30/2022 10:38:31 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

I didn’t see it. When I get the intestinal fortitude I’ll look for it.


7,357 posted on 11/30/2022 10:41:31 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: LilFarmer

Well, I am so glad to hear that, not wanting you all to blow away.

Did you get some bad weather out of this?


7,358 posted on 11/30/2022 10:45:53 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Jane Long

I truly don’t know how Don 🍋 and Joy-less Reid still have a job.


7,359 posted on 11/30/2022 10:49:00 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

Sick! Sick! Sick!

I didn’t see it and I won’t watch it.

My question is how the heck did Rumble ever let them put that sick garbage on their site?


7,360 posted on 11/30/2022 10:52:31 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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