(Congressional Agenda) – It seems that Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, along with U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters are all set to make sizable gains as ballots continue to be counted in the state. Doesn’t it just seem weird that for two elections in a row there has been major issues counting votes in the same county — Maricopa — and nobody seems to be doing anything to change the process and ensure these “errors” don’t happen again?
I mean, what are the odds, right?
How are voters not supposed to be suspicious concerning voter fraud when it just so happens that machines malfunction and ballots aren’t properly counted? It happened in 2020 and now in the midterms. Something smells fishy.
Randy DeSoto, a writer for The Patriot Project, reported, “Lake has already overcome an election night double-digit deficit to pull within less than one percentage point of rival Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in the governor’s race. As of Thursday afternoon, approximately 16,700 votes separate Lake and Hobbs, down from 183,000 Tuesday night.”
Taking a look at the Senate race, DeSoto noted that the incumbent, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly currently leads Masters by 5 percentage points, which is equal to about 100,000 votes with 70 percent of the vote in.
“A large batch of 62,034 ballots dropped last night in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous, which trended for Hobbs and Kelly, but the data analytics firm Data Orbital tweeted, ‘This drop is only about 15% of the total ballots remaining and the batch we expected to be the worst for the Republicans,'” DeSoto continued.
Maricopa County – 62,034 Ballots Reported
Kari Lake – 28,058 (45.9%)
Katie Hobbs – 33,018 (54.1%)~360,000 Ballots left in Maricopa
Reminder(!!!) – This drop is only about 15% of the total ballots remaining and the batch we expected to be the worst for the Republicans. #AZ
— Data Orbital (@Data_Orbital) November 10, 2022
As of this writing there are roughly 600,000 ballots left that need to be counted across Arizona. Mail-in ballots are usually the final ballots that counties process.
We had HUGE crowds in Prescott & Scottsdale last night for our rallies
This movement is incredible! I am so honored to have the support of each and every one of you!
There’s still 11 hours left until polls close so GO VOTE & let’s shock the world! #KArizona pic.twitter.com/A1TaMOV7GM
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) November 8, 2022
“County officials must perform signature verification on all these ballots before they can be submitted to be counted, which causes the time delay,” Patriot Project said.
ARIZONA ELECTION 2022 #UPDATE: Nearly 600,000 ballots still need to be counted in #Arizona, with over 400,000 of them coming from Maricopa County, according to the secretary of state's office.
LATEST: https://t.co/QLj2VRubk1 pic.twitter.com/so0xQKMN3K
— FOX 10 Phoenix (@FOX10Phoenix) November 10, 2022
During the 2020 presidential election, drop off ballots that were turned in on Election Day tended to lean heavily for then-President Donald Trump, which led to him slashing Joe Biden’s lead down from over 90,000 votes to the Democratic Party’s victory of just 10,457 ballots.
“A similar pattern played out in August for Lake in her race with establishment Republican candidate Karrin Taylor Robson, with Robson jumping out to a double-digit lead on election night,” DeSoto wrote in his article.
But Lake actually surpassed her rival the very next day and won the race.
Lake then tweeted Wednesday, “Remaining ballots (Election Day & Early Drop-offs) are all breaking BIGLY for @KariLake. Just like we knew they would.”
Remaining ballots (Election Day & Early Drop-offs) are all breaking BIGLY for @KariLake. Just like we knew they would.
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) November 9, 2022
Lake conducted an interview with conservative podcast host Steven Crowder on Thursday morning where she spoke about the remaining 600,000 votes yet to be counted, saying, “The good news is almost 400,000 of them are people who had an early ballot and dropped it off on Election Day.”
“Now who does that?” Lake went on to ask during the interview. “Those are people who are nervous about dropping them off in those drop boxes. They’re nervous about dropping them in the mail. They want to show up on Election Day and hand-deliver it.”
“Those are going to go heavily our way,” she remarked. “These are Republican voters. These are people who distrust the election system. And those would be voters who would vote for me.”
🚨HUGE🚨
Over 384K Mail-In ballots dropped off on Election Day!
These ballots are overwhelmingly in support of @KariLake & not a single one of them has been counted yet
This race is over for @katiehobbs pic.twitter.com/uZVFNqCJ0g
— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) November 10, 2022
Lake then stated those ballots will probably be between 60 to 80 percent in her favor. She then pointed out that a lot of the votes left to be counted will come from “Box 3” where Election Day voters were told to leave their ballots after they were rejected by tabulation machines at polling sites.
Almost a quarter of polling stations suffered from this machine malfunction in Maricopa County.
20% of polling stations in #Maricopa County are reporting issues with the tabulating machines counting votes. The county says they have systems in place to make sure every vote is counted. pic.twitter.com/H6pWjhiUv2
— Willy Lowry (@willy_lowry) November 8, 2022
DeSoto then explained, “County officials said that these ballots deposited in Box 3 would be taken to the Maricopa County Elections Department facility in downtown Phoenix to be processed. Based on the 2020 and the primary election pattern, Lake is seemingly in a good position to win the race. Masters also tweeted Wednesday that he is confident, he will win.”
With the remaining ballots outstanding, we are confident we will win.
— Blake Masters for U.S. Senate Press (@MastersPress) November 9, 2022
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can you say rigged? i knew you could.