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Government Corruption
Maricopa County recorder sez he 'has no idea how many ballots were cast, but Kari Lake lost'
2022-12-27
[PJ] It was, perhaps, a small miracle that Kari Lake’s election challenge was allowed to go to trial, but the tough part still lies ahead: proving beyond a reasonable doubt (Count II) that ballot printer problems on Election Day were intentional, designed to affect the results of the election—and that they, in fact, did—and (Count IV) that additional votes were allowed to be counted in violation of the County Election Manual.

On Wednesday, Lake’s team took a huge step toward doing that.

When asked by Lake’s attorney Bryan Blehm if the county knew on Election Day how many ballots had been submitted by the voters, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer testified that they did not. According to Richer, individual polling places did not tally the number of votes cast — an apparent violation of state law.

Related: Kari Lake Calls for Maricopa Election Officials to Be ’Locked Up’

This is significant because Lake’s lawsuit claims, among other things, that between Nov. 9 (the day after Election Day) and Nov. 11, the number of votes the county reported having counted in the election increased by nearly 25,000 — which exceeds Katie Hobbs’ alleged 17,000-vote victory.

"Highlighting the chain of custody failures ... is the fact that two days after Election Day was completed, Maricopa County found more than 25,000 additional ballots, whereas properly followed chain of custody procedures would require Maricopa County election officials to know the exact number of ballots submitted by the day after Election, November 9, 2022," Kari Lake’s attorney explained in their legal brief.

"On Election Day, it would’ve been easy for you to figure out how many ballots you received," Blehm told Richer.

"Well, we had to get them all in and it was quite a process throughout the night," Richer claimed.

"You can look at the forms and add the numbers. Correct?" Blehm asked.

"They’re not counted at the individual loading locations," Richer explained. "They are counted when they get back to MCTEC [the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center] and then they are recounted at Runbeck."

"Does anybody know, when those ballots leave the voting centers, how many are in the bins?" asked Blehm.

"When the early ballots leave the voting centers, no, they are not counted at the voting centers," Richer admitted

"Nobody knows how many [ballots] are in the bins when they arrive at MCTEC. Correct?" Blehm asked.

"Correct," Richer said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#31  So where are the republicans on this? Why the silence. They are just as criminal as the dems in running out all but the Goldwater/McCain criminal elites.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-12-27 17:52  

#30  We only got the zombie retard in Pissholevania because Trump endorsed Oprah's boyfriend. Think about it.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-27 13:43  

#29  Rex, you wanted to vote for any of those freaks, I could feel sorry for you. Or I could figure your sensibilities are damaged. I'll go with the latter.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-27 13:34  

#28  #23 The point being that GOP candidates you mentioned were infinitely better than those they lost to. Yet, in those same races in those same districts where we all saw the same election BS go on right in front of our eyes, those GOP candidates lost by exactly those same processes that the "conspiracy theorists" said would take place and that includes the active backstabbing by the RNC. Given that environment, a perfect conservative candidate couldn't get elected dog catcher.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-12-27 13:27  

#27  Tell that to Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats.

No. It's up to primary voters. In states where dem voters get to pollute pub primaries we need to outthink them again. In states where they cant, we need to stop taking the Akins, Moores, Walkers, Elders and Lakes seriously.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-27 13:04  

#26  I am tired of Mitch identifying the worthy candidates. Maricopa County has demonstrated that we have dirt-bags, incompetents and sleepers inside our wire. Portman is the Ohio example - Mitch would call him worthy. I would also call him worthy. Worthy of what is where Mitch and I disagree. It is time to delouse our country from the precinct level. I can think of 1.3 T reasons for a tar and feathers U type cell with a 30 second Takt Time.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-27 12:48  

#25  ^Tell that to Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2022-12-27 12:47  

#24  The. Whole. F*cking. Point. of elections is to eliminate the unworthy. Giving a drooler a "fair chance" does
not help our cause.

Grow The F*ck. Up!
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-27 12:31  

#23  So, Rex, you think our candidates should talk like 8 year old girls too?
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-27 12:23  

#22  Whenever Donk attorney Marc Elias shows up before or after an election, look out.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-12-27 12:12  

#21  We're at a point where quality of candidate is meaningless. Murcek, did you have the chance to hear Hobbs speak? She's pretending to be an 8 yr old girl. It's not convincing, it's cringe inducing but it's what she does. Her interiew with Telemundo should have been the polical equivalent of the Falaise Gap, but here we are today. The Dems ran candidates who were pretending to be a little girl, one who pretended to be cognizant, and one who pretended to be alive and they all WON. Hell they've had a fake Indian for decades. And now we got the GOPe running fake candidates in NY. If Santos can win, Lake at very least deserves an honest accounting.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-12-27 12:04  

#20  ^ Who's in charge? Not you or me...
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-27 11:25  

#19  It seems like there should be consequences for running consecutive elections that stood out with respect to illegality and incompetence throughout a nation where there was quite a bit of it in 2020. Everyone predicted that Maricopa County would have issues and they exceeded expectations. There ought to be accountability for that. There won’t be, but there ought to be.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-27 11:23  

#18  "GOP Leadership"..... ?


Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-27 09:17  

#17  The answer is most of the GOPe leadership being shot down on a mission to Ukraine.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 09:15  

#16  Having said that, any win before the Supreme Court is a setback because to me the goal is not a Lake victory but election cleanup and exposure.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-12-27 09:12  

#15  I believe the best case scenario was a Lake loss with obvious election shenanigans (as happened) followed by court losses and appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court so that any legal results apply to every state.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-12-27 09:11  

#14  The reason Sinema and Manchin have not had "accidents" is that when the time comes, they will fall in line. Watch for the vote to kill the filibuster (which itself is a false hope for those wanting a two-party gummint)
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 08:33  

#13  Well, GOPe has to think about "compliant" candidates. The left knows all theirs will vote in lockstep.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 08:31  

#12  I'm equally amused that people think the system/institution can be salvaged if only they had the 'right' candidates.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-27 08:28  

#11  I love the "argument" that candidates like Lake would have turned into Reagan once elected.

Keep hittin that pipe....
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 08:18  

#10  ^ Comon, B. She has squatted all over whatever "dignity" she might (a stretch) have had.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 08:16  

#9  Even poor candidates have a right to an honest defeat.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-27 08:08  

#8  Lake was a bad candidate and she's getting worse all the time now. Same people who hated on me for saying that about Larry Elder and Herschel Walker will hate on me now.

I'm still right...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 08:02  

#7  ^ Voting more tax dollars to Ukraine...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 08:01  

#6  BTW:

Where is the (R) DC leadership help on this?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-27 07:59  

#5  Lindell is "investigating" election irregularities in Dade County, because "DeSantis shouldn't have won there."

I'm throwing out the MyPillows in my house on New Years Day.

"Nobody but Trump" are worse droolers than "NeverTrump."

Write it down...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 07:57  

#4  
We will never know the true voting numbers as long as any 1 political party in power has control of the counting, auditing and verification system.

It should be plain and simple, when fraudulent voting, tampering or failure to properly count can be shown. The election results for that poll location should be immediately voided.

With mandatory felony level jail time for those deliberately violating the voting rights of others.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-27 07:57  

#3  She's not done with these crooked SOB's just yet.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-27 07:54  

#2  ^ Reinforcing the idea they don't want election shenanigans to be viewed as crime...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-27 07:53  

#1  Interesting, that in a criminal court you lose the chain of custody receipts, you lose the case.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-27 07:49  

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