Kari Lake Expert Witness: Missized Ballots That Caused Election Day Chaos Could Not Have Been An Accident

On the first day of trial in Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s election challenge Wednesday, her lawyers focused on the Maricopa County election equipment failures that caused chaos on Election Day and disenfranchised voters. Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson previously dismissed eight out of the ten claims Lake made in her lawsuit. In his order allowing Lake’s case to go forward, Thompson said that she would have to prove that misconduct occurred, and that it resulted in “identifiable lost votes” affecting the outcome of the election.

Lake’s lawyers attempted to make that case with their bombshell revelation that a review of random ballots found that 48 out of 113 (42.5 percent) were “19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper,” causing them to be rejected.

Clay Parikh, a witness who examined the defective ballots on behalf of the Lake campaign, said someone must have changed the printer configurations.

“These are not a bump against the printer and the settings change,” he explained. “There are security configurations. I’ve reviewed the evidence, and the printers are configured via script, which by any large organization that has to do multiple systems is the standard.”

“It takes away the human error of somebody miscoding in the instructions on the printer,” Parikh said.

When asked whether it could not have happened by accident, Parikh said “no.”

(Note: there are numerous Twitter shots in the original article at the source link)

“This one-inch discrepancy caused chaos on Election day. Causing the mass rejection of these votes as they were attempted to be read through the tabulators,” Kari Lake’s campaign wrote on Twitter, Wednesday.

In another tweet, Kari Lake’s War Room called the discrepancy “deliberate sabotage.”

“The machines should have been programmed for 19.” By Maricopa County’s own testimony, there is no such thing as an 20″ ballot,” Lake’s campaign team wrote. “Yet somehow machines in 61% of their polling centers still printed a 19″ inch ballot on a 20″ paper. Deliberate sabotage targeted at Republican turnout.”

Wednesday night, Lake herself suggested that the election was “sabotaged” with “mutant ballots.”

“They printed Mutant Ballots on Election day–using a 19″ image on a 20″ ballot paper,” she tweeted. “That’s why the tabulators rejected the ballots and that’s why chaos ensued as Lake supporters flooded Voting Center to cast ballots. Clowns & Crooks run our elections. #LakeTrial #Sabotage.”

Roving attorney Mark Sonnenklar, who took the stand as a witness for Lake, disagreed with Maricopa County’s assessment that problems in 60 percent of election day voting centers were “a small matter.”

When asked whether he had “personal knowledge” that the printing errors could have changed the outcome of the election, Sonnenklar replied, “had there not been tabulator issues at 132 vote centers, this election would have resulted—would have ended up with Kari Lake winning.”

Elections investigator Heather Honey testified that Maricopa County and its contractor Runbeck Election Services failed to follow the “legal requirements for chain of custody.”

Honey pointed to statements given to her by various individuals, including a Runbeck employee who alleged that county election workers didn’t include a key chain of custody document when delivering ballots from drop boxes on election night.

“She expressed her concern over the fact that the procedure that had been well established during the election had not been used for the large number of election day dropbox ballots that were received,” Honey said.

The investigator spoke with another woman who was an election observer at the Maricopa County Tabulation Election Center (MCTEC) on election night when the ballots came in from the dropboxes.

“Her concern,” Honey explained, “was that specifically the seals were being removed from the transport containers, and the ballots inside were not counted. That was a requirement, as she understood it, and the fact that they were just taking those ballots out of the transport containers without counting them was her primary concern.”

Honey went on to testify: “They weren’t following the legal requirements for chain of custody. There were seals on the containers when they transported them, but the specific issues were that they were just cutting them open, taking the ballots out, putting them in trays without regard to how many; there was no documentation.”

She said the county’s chain of custody problems made it impossible to determine how many votes were improperly counted in the system.

Canadian lawyer Viva Frei gave Lake high marks for what she was able to achieve in court Wednesday. “Anybody who says today’s hearing is not an abject disaster for @katiehobbs is simply not watching the trial,” Frei tweeted. “Kari Lake is doing better than anyone could have possibly imagined, even with the limited scope of her claims before the court.”

It could also mean that the results in Maricopa County were the result of a vote fraud scheme to count ballots voted for Lake and other Republicans as being voted for Hobbs and Democrats gone bad.

What we saw in Maripa County was odd because we know some of the ballots went through the machines and some didn't , but we have no idea if the ballots that did go through the machine were actually tabulated for the candidate the voter voted for

Specifically , we cannot be sure if ballots voted for Lake were actually counted for Lake and not misread as being voted for Hobbs due to cleverly altered bubble registration of the “misprinted” ballots due to the shrinking of the ballot form admitted by Maricopa County voting officials

Does this mean that different ballots were printed differently?

Or does it mean that ballots were read differently - as in ballots voted for Lake being tabulated as voting for Katie Hobbs?

Perhaps this was a vote fraud grift to miscount ballots gone bad - not just an attempt shut down voting in Republican areas.

This would be the case if the ballots for voters in Republican/Kari Lake strong holds were intentionally altered such that the corrupt ballot image had registration errors that shifted the bubble reading locations so some or all of bubbles marked for the REPUBLICAN slate of Lake , Finchem, Masters and Abe would be intentionally misread by the tabulating machines as being voted for the DEMOCRAT slate of Hobbs, Fuentes, Kelly and Mayes.

They got caught last time messing with the machines and knew the machines would face scrutiny if the tried to redo the old 2020 cheat so perhaps this time they messed with the print images of ballots from Republican strongholds so that a certain number ballots voted for the Republican slate would be mis read as filled in for the Democrat slate due to the altered bubble registration.

This would perfectly explain all the inexplicable and weird results we saw in the Maricopa County election including the ballot reject failures, the bizarre disconnect between the pre election polls that showed Lake and the rest of the Republican slate winning the election by wide margins and the election day exit polls that showed Lake and the Republicans winning game day voting by a 2 to 1 or greater margin in Maricopa County while the vote tabulators counted Hobbs and the rest of the Democrat slate as winning despite the lopsided election day exit polls showing the Republicans winning by huge margins .

There should be a hand recount in Maricopa county because it is very possible that the jiggered ballot print files were cleverly altered to mis count a certain percentage of Lake and Republican voted ballots as Hobbs and Democrat voted ballots.

The beauty of the scheme is there is no way of telling if the corrupted lake ballot was misread and counted for Hobbs. This would also be hard to figure out because miscounted ballots from Republican strongholds would be spread over the many Vote Centers in Maricopa County because North Scottsdale voters at vote centers all over Maricopa County.

This scheme could also be easily replicated in other Arizona Counties that do not use Dominion voting machines because it is the altered ballot format of the totally un regulated and unsupervised on site printing of ballots that perpetrates the fraud, not the voting machine or vote tabulator.

Arizona no longer uses a Precinct model where all people in a neighborhood all vote at the same voting precinct to vote for local candidates .

Arizona now uses a “Vote Center” model where you go any place in the county to vote and the vote center custom prints out the ballot for your local election with all it's specific local down ballot candidates.

This means that people residing in different areas who are voting at any given Vote Center are actually voting with different ballots with different slates of down ballot local candidates.

This means that if the ballot PDF print form from one area, say an area that is a Kari Lake stronghold like North Scottsdale, is intentionally jiggered then is will either be rejected or misread at all vote centers across Maricopa County , even if the North Scottsdale voter casts his or her vote at a Vote Center at a Katie Hobbs strong hold like Arizona State University because the printer image for the North Scottsdale specific ballots all come from the same corrupt print image in the Maricopa County local area ballot data base.

Conversely, if a Katie Hobbs partisan from ASU prints out his or her ballot from Tempe at the North Scottsdale Vote Center where all the Lake voters are getting jammed up , their Tempe ballot cast in North Scottsdale will sail through the tabulator because the ballot image for the Tempe slate has not been corrupted.

Since most Az voters are not even aware of the shift to Vote Centers , they still vote at their old local polling places. So North Scottsdale predominantly vote at their old North Scottsdale precinct location which has been converted to Vote Center.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.