Posted on 11/17/2022 7:47:31 PM PST by bitt
Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake gave an update Thursday morning about the status of her legal fight after voters were disenfranchised on Election Day.
https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1593251949201084423? (2.5 min video)
On Election Day 25 percent of vote tabulation machines in the state's largest county, Maricopa, were not working. It took hours for election officials to fix the problem. Despite the delays and long lines, a judge refused to extend voting hours.
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ALSO SEE:
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/11/17/kari-lake-this-fight-save-our-republic-has-just-begun/
GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake released a new video on social media Thursday morning, saying, “the fight to save our republic has just begun,” three days after the Associated Press, CBS News and other outlets projected Katie Hobbs as the winner of the race. It was not a concession speech. Lake’s campaign later confirmed that she was at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s golf club in Florida, hours after the video was posted on Twitter. She was endorsed by Trump. The Washington Post first reported that she attended a luncheon held by the America First Policy Institute, an advocacy group created by former Trump advisers.
In a 2 1/2-minute video, Lake made no mention of giving up in her most extensive public comments since losing the election. Before the election, she had refused to say that she would concede if she lost the race to Hobbs, a Democrat. “I am still in this fight with you,” the former TV news anchor says at the beginning of the video. Lake goes on to say that for two years, she’s been sounding the alarm about Arizona’s “broken election system,” and that the past week confirmed her claims. “The fox was guarding the henhouse and because of that, voters have been disenfranchised,” Lake said, referring to Hobbs for not recusing herself in her current role as Secretary of State.
Lake then went into Election Day problems regarding problems with tabulation machines and printers, saying she spoke with voters who spent hours in line. “Our election officials failed us miserably,” Lake said, claiming that tens of thousands of Maricopa County voters were disenfranchised on Election Day. Last week, Maricopa County election officials said that about 17,000 ballots were affected by a printing problem that kept machines from reading them but stressed that all votes would be counted. “What happened to Arizonans on Election Day is unforgivable,” she said.
County election officials said that all ballots were counted and that voters could go to any polling place in the county, many of which had little to no line, with wait times posted online. Election officials traced the problems to a printer setting that sometimes led to ballots printing too lightly for the on-site tabulators to read. They said they used the same settings in the August primary and for pre-election testing and there were no widespread issues.
“Now I am busy here collecting evidence and data,” Lake says in the video. “Rest assured, I have assembled the best and brightest legal team, and we are exploring every avenue to correct the many wrongs that have been done this past week.”
“And I can promise you one thing: this fight to save our republic has just begun,” Lake says at the end of the video.
Bill Gates, the Republican chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, has blamed state GOP chair Kelli Ward and other prominent Republicans for causing delays and long lines because they told their supporters not to use box three. “This team, we have accepted our responsibility in this,” Gates said Monday. “But I’m not willing to accept responsibility for issues that were caused by others. And it is clear to me that those lines were longer because leaders in one political party were spreading misinformation.”
Hobbs has held a narrow lead over Lake in the days since the election. After Hobbs was projected to win Monday night, Lake’s only statement was a post on Twitter saying, “Arizonans know BS when they see it.”
As of Thursday morning, just over 17,000 ballots remain uncounted across the state, with about 9,000 of those in Maricopa County. Tap/click here to see the latest numbers.
On Wednesday, the Maricopa Board of Supervisors held its first public meeting since the election. More than 30 people showed up to voice their concerns and frustrations with the ballot tabulation machines.
Lake should be the next Governor but...we all know she won't be and there's not a damn thing any of us can do about it.
Trump should be inserting himself in the mess and standing up for Lake. Is he doing that?
These people don't care about our Country...power is the driving force.
Lock and Load people
Don’t be an Ass!
Try searching for Trump and the AZ Gov. Election and Kari Lake and you will find that at least 3 days ago President Trump was pushing for a di-over of the election because of the Fraud involved.
Give the “blame Trump” crap a rest already!
yeah...whatever
FR is clearly heading for a reprise of the Cruz vs. Trump 2016 furball. There will probably not be any surprises as to which FReepers find every excuse under the sun to want Trump to go away, and which similarly back him to the hilt.
Lake should be the next Governor but...we all know she won’t be and there’s not a damn thing any of us can do about it.
Trump should be inserting himself in the mess and standing up for Lake. Is he doing that?
These people don’t care about our Country...power is the driving force.
Lock and Load people
Welcome to FR....
The article states that Kari Lake was AT MAR A LAGO....for a meeting with a group of TRUMP ADVISORS.
Exaggerate, much??
Trump is one of the very few who actually does care about this country.
Geez.
Next time learn facts before spewing anti-Trump garbage.
Shes on a plane flying to his place
Despite the delays and long lines, a Democrat stooge-judge [Little Timmy Ryan] appointed by Democrat governor Janet Napolitano, refused to extend voting hours.
Because he's a Democrat stooge.
When elections are rife with fraud and incompetence, ALL legitimate voters are disenfranchised. It’s really that simple. Since noone in authority wants to give this any serious consideration, ALL their heads should roll..... no exceptions. Our forefathers would have shot these commie bassturds long ago without giving it a second thought. It’s sad to see how far we have fallen.
You blame Trump...lol
Oh my...get my fainting couch. I said something that may have been an offense against Trump (which it was not). The point is, Kari Lake is not going to be Governor and it really doesn’t matter if Trump is involved or not. So shoot the messenger, it doesn’t change the message.
Funny how the bad machines were mostly in Repub precincts.
Arizona has a recall option. Start a recall for Hobbs. Arizona also has a recall option for judges. Start a recall for any judge who punts this case.
these things are certified
someone screwed with them
The sad thing is that AZ has a so called Republican governor and legislature, who chose to do nothing about their election infrastructure - nothing. It's true the state senate authorized an audit which showed plenty of fraud in 2020, but the communication of the results were so poorly executed, that most everyone concluded, the 2020 election in AZ was just fine.
‘Angry Arizonan obliterates the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors today’
https://odysee.com/@Velyaminov:a/Angry-Arizonan-obliterates-the-Maricopa-County-Board-of-Supervisors-today:3
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