[American Thinker] As elections wrapped up, there are probably a lot of people in Washington and its swamp saying that's all over, let's move on.But in Arizona, the top Republican gubernatorial contender has not conceded. She has rightly filed a lawsuit. And her case for a full do-over of Arizona's travesty election has got to go through if there is to be any justice.
The extended counting, the weirdly broken voting machines, the lost voting time, and the suspected uncounted ballots really does scream of electoral fraud, complete with the person in charge of the counting, just, by coincidence of coincidences, somehow coming up the winner.
Any questions why 80% of voters, according to one poll, say there was fraud in this past election?
Arizona's gubernatorial candidate, the quick-witted and popular Kari Lake, has reason to think so Her election was basically stolen, yet we aren't hearing a peep out of the GOP in Washington about it.
Yes, stolen elections happen -- GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin once told me several years ago that he had one stolen from him. Yes, candidates sometimes say their elections were stolen when they are unhappy about the results -- see Stacey Abrams of Georgia.
But in Arizona, the fraud and signs of fraud were pretty obvious.
Ballot machines that worked the night before in Maricopa County, Arizona's biggest, suddenly didn't work the day of the vote, failing to count votes. Hey, just a technical glitch, right? The number of machines affected, contrary to media reports downplaying the issue, was according to this report, as high as 60%. Voters were told to put their uncounted ballots into "Box 3" and just trust that they'd be counted later. Nobody has shown proof or even given a straight answer as to whether or not they were. Ballots ran out and someone "forgot" to put printer ink in the machines -- a minimum-wage office skill -- making ballots impossible to read.
A judge refused to provide extra time for voting based on the lost time due to election organizer incompetence, and voters were told they could hunt around for another polling place to vote in -- hoping that the one they pick didn't have the same problems. Many voters on tight schedules simply couldn't do that and ended up not voting. Lake has called this voter suppression and who is to argue with her? By this analysis, the lost time would have provided Lake with the margin of victory based on the rate of countings.