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'Quite frankly, it is offensive': Maricopa County quick to bat down election misinformation
12News ^ | 11/14/2022 | AP

Posted on 11/14/2022 4:52:55 PM PST by semimojo

When the Republican candidate for Arizona governor accused the state’s most populous county of “slow-rolling” the vote count to skew early election results, a local official fired back.

“Quite frankly, it is offensive for Kari Lake to say that these people behind me are slow-rolling this, when they’re working 14 to 18 hours” every day, said Bill Gates, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors.

In 2020, Maricopa County landed in the national spotlight while certifying results amid false claims that the election was stolen from Trump. The following year, it underwent an “audit” pushed by Republicans in the state Senate, which ended with a report validating Biden’s win...

“That was just a constant flow of misinformation that we became adept at responding to," Gates said. "We began to understand the importance of responding to that misinformation...”

One persistent claim started when Lake, who is trailing Democrat Katie Hobbs by a percentage point with less than 200,000 votes left to count, accused the county of “slow-rolling” the count.

Lake and other Republicans say the county has timed vote releases so Democratic areas of the metro Phoenix area are released first. Gates has spent days explaining how that’s not happening and is not possible. In truth, the county processes ballots using a first-in, first out system.

(Excerpt) Read more at 12news.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2024election; arizona; demagogicparty; election2024; electionfraud; frvotefrauddenier; karilake; maga; maricopa; maricopacounty; riggedelection; riggedselection; semitroll; semitrollin; slowrolling; thearizonasteal; thedropandroll; votefraud; votefrauddenier
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To: semimojo

“Misinformation, disinformation, threat to our democracy…”

Weasel phrases.

I’m tired of hearing leftist (that includes RINOs) trash accusing us of what *they’re* doing.


41 posted on 11/14/2022 9:28:53 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Allegra
Weasel phrases.

It's worse than weaseling. It's disinformation since they know there is no "democracy" when the elections are routinely stolen on a grand scale.
42 posted on 11/14/2022 10:09:06 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

Weasel phrases.


43 posted on 11/14/2022 10:22:04 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Allegra
Weasel phrases.

No, "weasel phrases are things used in marketing like "helps control dandruff". Maybe it does, but how much is never quantified. Disinformation is lying to hide the truth. So saying a "threat to our democracy" is disinformation when we no longer have a democratic republic.
44 posted on 11/14/2022 10:38:48 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

I’m not going to argue with you. You’re just one of those people spoiling for a fight.

I stand by my post.

Go look elsewhere for your little fight. There are plenty like you on here, I guarantee you. Ankle-nippers aplenty. Go find one to play with.

Good night.


45 posted on 11/14/2022 10:46:02 PM PST by Allegra
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To: pfflier

>>Funny, almost every story about this now includes these exact words<<

The media RIGHTLY published this statement...


46 posted on 11/15/2022 1:06:46 AM PST by Does so (It's not our guns...It's your SONS!)
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To: semimojo

IT is MUCH MORE OFFENSIVE to voters who pay for the workers/machines/printing/tabulation of an election.

This entire group of HOBBS EMPLOYEES should be fired —for cause.


47 posted on 11/15/2022 10:49:23 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: mongrel

I have done accounting for 65 years.

NONE of these persons would have a job under my supervision.


48 posted on 11/15/2022 10:50:21 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

ALL OF THOSE WORKERS ARE HOBBS EMPLOYEES-—ALL


49 posted on 11/15/2022 10:51:18 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: combat_boots

Lots of nice places to live in N Nevada-—


50 posted on 11/15/2022 10:51:52 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

He’s very good at gaslighting.


51 posted on 11/15/2022 10:53:57 AM PST by Aquamarine
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To: ridesthemiles

ANY person in charge of elections should be eligible not run for an office while in that position. It’s utterly ridiculous that she was able to run in the first place. A law is needed that prohibits the person in charge of elections from running for office for five years after leaving that position. As you say, she has way too many “friends” working there to have a fair election.


52 posted on 11/15/2022 11:36:01 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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