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.
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Maybe they should work smarter, not harder.
Gates and crew are incompetent. No other way to explain it.
Yeah, THEY’RE the ones offended....
Like it is our job NOT to offend public employees. It’s pure corruption. Arizona election results used to be same night. Florida is same night despite over 4 times the voters and two time zones.
Arizona is corrupt.
- George Orwell, 1984
This guy needs to be sued by the citizens of Arizona. Hopefully a class action suit will be filed by Republican who voted.
Who will I believe? Bill Gates or my lying eyes. They are either cheating or incompetent,
They protest too much.
The day these people are held accountable, being offended will be the least of their worries.
Cheaters get offended and put up fences. Honest people show you the books.
Quite frankly, it is offensive
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That’s pretty rich coming from the reprobate progs that love them some baby killing, child genital mutilation and kindergarten masturbation training advocates,,,
Spare me liarcrat.
Bill Gates, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors.
well well well
BS BS BS
how do these people sleep at night?
No cheating in AZ. That deployment of the corrupt sheriff to prevent scrutiny of the ballot counting is a mirage dontchaknow.
If Maricopa was not far slower counting votes than all but a handful of the other over 3,000 counties in the USA, well their sanctimony would be easier to swallow.
Offended??? Hahaha...yeah, a public offender is “offended”...
If he's not a homo he's missing a great opportunity.
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