Posted on 12/22/2022 4:40:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
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.”
“It was really pandemonium out there everywhere!” Sonnenklar testified.
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.”
How was Hobbs supposed to win if she didn’t run the fake election?
She did not have to run the fake election.
There is a whole other group that does that. They “know” what “to do” (wink, wink). It’s been going on for a very long time. It explains how she got selected to her current office. All elected demonkkraps like her have plausible deniability.
Or the judge just summarily dismisses the case without explanation.......that sounds about right.
Thanks for that correction. It was confusing to me too. There could not be two different paper sizes, it had to be two slightly different image sizes, both printed on the same size paper. The difference was in the size configuration in the print settings.
The problem with the ballot issue is there is not a clear violation of law.
* It is not required by statute that the tabulators be able to process the ballots.
* The fall back option of putting them in the ballot box is allowed as demonstrated by that being the only method in other counties
Much stronger are the chain of custody issues. That is required by law and violations should overturn the election.
They need to create a clear overlay to show which votes would be counted and which would not if somehow the machine accepted the wrong size. People have stated that the ballots were fed thru the machine multiple times and then accepted or
they gave up and went to another polling place.
Having worked in several state elections in the past where pre-printed ballots and scanners, one could have a ballot that jams the machine and is rejected.
One can also have ballots that do not jam, but are rejected.
For example a ballot was rejected because the voter’s choice in one or more elections could not be determined. Let’s say one race required the filling out of one oval, but the voter filled out 3. (I’ve seen this, usually elderly people like with Joke Xiden’s current mental state). After the poll closed, assuming all other races were correctly voted, the one race would be “thrown out” and all others counted and added to a tally sheet.
One question for AZ is how many “rejected” ballots were reviewed and then all valid votes counted for each candidate. If done correctly, all the rejected ballots could be audited independently and then checked against each voting center’s reported results.
Other issues like ballot stuffing, etc is separate. Remember, fraudsters do not employ just one method ... there are many methods that spread across the entire election add up to the desired result. Their trick is to “hide” within the systems so when one or a few precincts or voting centers are audited, it won’t be easily recognizable, but if it is, it won’t be enough to overturn the election. Voting weeks before an election instead of only on election day or eliminating absentee voting for cause are two significant changes that have allowed voting fraud and rigging to be more easily implemented.
As soon as confusion sets in, scammers start getting away with their scam.
How hard is it, really, to say what should have happened, then say what did happen, then discuss the differences and the impact they had?
But no, as soon as numbers appear, and people start talking about computers and printers, the fog rolls in and it’s as if the Tower of Babel has fallen again. Nobody can understand each other and the bad actors slink off and exit stage left.
The Lamestream media and Rats would be protesting in the streets demanding a new election.
So the image used to print the ballots was either miss sized, the wrong paper tray selected. This is human error....not some nefarious plot. If the problem was fixed, and it was reported that it was, I don’t see how this constitutes some massive “fraud” that everybody is alleging.
“. . . it was testified by an expert witness . . . .”
Human error on a massive scale effecting a public election is not a thing to brush aside so quickly.
When the number is greater than the vote spread between 1st and 2nd place, the whole state should care, everybody.
Looking into your posting history newbie, why are you on a conservative website? You are a vote fraud denier and Trump basher. Go back to DU.
Probably a fibbie on assignment.
Kitties are warming up.
Anything you say right...
<>Because Hobbs knew the fix was in she chose not to debate<>
Brandon hardly campaigned in 2020.
For the same reason.
He said so about ten days before the election.
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