{"id":1704133,"date":"2022-10-20T13:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704133"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:00","slug":"katie-hobbs-sent-thousands-of-erroneous-ballots-to-arizona-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-hobbs-sent-thousands-of-erroneous-ballots-to-arizona-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Hobbs Sent Thousands Of Erroneous Ballots To Arizona Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkatie-hobbs-sent-thousands-of-erroneous-ballots-to-arizona-voters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704133&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Arizona Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial nominee Katie Hobbs sent thousands of erroneous ballots to voters less than one month before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of a Tuesday press release from the secretary of state\u2019s office documenting the error was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenAFifield\/status\/1582745489497128960?s=20&#038;t=C0JqQK0HcEP3GAt-7iXtDg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared <\/a>by local Arizona reporter Jen Fifield on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy office found and corrected a database error in concert with the Motor Vehicle Division, which led to less than a quarter of one percent of voters to be registered as Federal-Only voters when they should have been registered as Full Ballot voters,\u201d Hobbs said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>According to Fifield, that amounts to about 10,000 voters. <\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenAFifield\/status\/1582793210841088000?s=20&#038;t=C0JqQK0HcEP3GAt-7iXtDg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweet<\/a> on Wednesday, Fifield wrote that the secretary of state\u2019s office \u201cis clarifying that about 6,000 records are being reviewed, with an estimated 1,000 voters affected.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday press release published by Fifield does not appear on Hobbs\u2019 official government <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/about-office\/media-center\/press-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, and the secretary of state\u2019s office did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s inquiries. <\/p>\n<p>Early voting began last week in Arizona, where more than <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/about-office\/media-center\/press-releases\/1472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3 million<\/a> voters listed on the \u201cActive Early Voting List (AEVL)\u201d will <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/votebymail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">automatically <\/a>receive ballots in the mail. <\/p>\n<p>Hobbs is overseeing state elections as the incumbent secretary of state while she also sits at the top of the Democratic ticket in the race for governor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/az\/arizona_governor_lake_vs_hobbs-7842.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to RealClearPolitics\u2019 latest aggregate of polls, which are often manipulated to fit media-driven narratives, Hobbs is down 1.6 percent against former television anchor Kari Lake in a statistical dead heat. <\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Lake called on Hobbs to \u201crecuse yourself as secretary of state,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1582824660835500033?s=20&#038;t=C0JqQK0HcEP3GAt-7iXtDg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a>, \u201cDelegate your job to someone who actually knows how to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Hobbs and her campaign became the subject of the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/katie-hobbs-has-no-interest-in-the-responsibilities-of-a-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expos\u00e9 <\/a>from the investigative group Project Veritas. Hobbs, who has refused to debate Lake ahead of the Nov. 8 contest, was captured on hidden camera complaining about listening to constituents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk politics to anyone who I don\u2019t know,\u201d Hobbs said, describing her reaction to an Uber driver who asked her what she did for work. <\/p>\n<p>Arizona is not the only state to make major election-related errors this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Colorado\u2019s Democrat secretary of state \u201cmistakenly\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/10\/colorados-democratic-secretary-of-state-sent-get-out-the-vote-postcards-to-30000-noncitizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent <\/a>\u201cget out the vote\u201d postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens. In Colorado, all registered voters automatically receive ballots in the mail, regardless of whether residents plan to vote by mail or in person.<\/p>\n<p> Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Hobbs will oversee Arizona&#8217;s elections as secretary of state while also running as the top Democrat on the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1704136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}