Republican Candidates For Arizona Governor And AG Appeal Election Integrity Challenges

It’s no secret the conduction of the 2022 midterm election in Maricopa County, Arizona, was a complete disaster. There were many problems, including misconfigured printers that created faulty ballots and long waiting lists. list of problems witnessed throughout Arizona’s most populous county is seemingly endless.

And while the state’s Democrat victors have since been sworn into office following the certification of the 2022 election results, that hasn’t stopped Arizona’s GOP gubernatorial and attorney general candidates — Kari Lake and Abraham Hamadeh — from trying to achieve some form of accountability given the untold number of voters disenfranchised on Election Day. Despite the media blackout and several legal defeats, both Republicans continue to seek legal remedies for the multitude of issues that plagued the 2022 election.

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After giving her a massage, lawsuit struck down in Maricopa’s Superior Court late last month, Lake has filed Separate appeals to an appellate court or the Arizona Supreme Court. Since then, the former has agreed to expedite her case To be heard by judges on February 1.

In her suitLake asserts that the tabulator problems Maricopa voters encountered on Election Day were caused by Lake “the result of intentional action” Maricopa election officials failed to maintain chain-of custody records for almost 300,000 ballots as required by Arizona law.

Maricopa poll workers will be at work on Election Day roughly 30 percent of the county’s voting centers began reporting that their respective vote tabulation machines were rejecting voters’ ballots, resulting in long wait times and widespread confusion among voters and election workers alike. Then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ margin of victory over Lake was about 17,000 votes.

[READ: Maricopa County Made Arizona’s Elections Even More Of A Disaster Than People Realize]

During the case’s two-day trial last month, Lake’s legal team sought to prove the vote tabulators’ refusal to accept ballots stemmed from an intentionally misconfigured printer setting that didn’t comport with the size of the ballot paper. According to American Greatness, Lake’s lawyer’s claimed that after “a review of random ballots,” They were amazed at what they found “that 48 out of 113 (42.5 percent) were ’19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper,’ causing them to be rejected.” Clay Parikh (a cybersecurity specialist) was summoned to inspect the ballots of the Lake campaign. He cast doubt on any notion that such an incident could have happened by accident.

“I’ve reviewed the evidence, and the printers are configured via script, which by any large organization that has to do multiple systems is the standard,” Parikh responded “no” When asked, was the incorrect printer configuration possible? “by accident.” “It takes away the human error of somebody miscoding in the instructions on the printer.”

Separately, though Maricopa County maintains it followed state law, court testimony and eyewitness reports from Lake’s trial allege that Maricopa County violated it By “failing to implement chain-of-custody documentation for Election Day ballots.” As The Federalist’s Staff Writer Victoria Marshall previously reported, an employee for Runbeck Election Services, which served as Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation vendor, says they received seven truckloads of