{"id":1733624,"date":"2022-11-10T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1733624"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:32:53","slug":"ap-stop-talking-about-maricopa-voting-machines-peasants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ap-stop-talking-about-maricopa-voting-machines-peasants\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Stop Talking About Maricopa Voting Machines, Peasants"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fap-stop-talking-about-maricopa-voting-machines-peasants%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=1733624&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/VotingMachine-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The votes from Tuesday are still being tabulated in a number of places since we apparently <em>aren\u2019t as smart as France<\/em> when it comes to counting ballots. But malfunctions and discrepancies have once again raised suspicions or at least questions about the election equipment being used around the country. The most glaring example is obviously the breakdown in Maricopa County on Tuesday morning. The voting machines (we\u2019re supposed to call them \u201ctabulators\u201d) in dozens of precincts across Arizona\u2019s most populous county left people standing in long lines or being \u201cchecked out\u201d so they could go find another location to \u201ccheck\u201d in and hopefully find a functional machine. Other voters were given provisional ballots to drop into a container with an assurance that election workers would absolutely scan them in when the equipment was back up and running. But the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-technology-pennsylvania-social-media-70af6e17061753a87e79df67825d619f\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has already leaped into action<\/a>, warning people on social media not to ask any questions because that would just be <em>dangerous misinformation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Maricopa County remained the epicenter of election misinformation Wednesday after\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-7\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-arizona-4e15278b82452878d6f6aa45b2984579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">problems with voter tabulation machines<\/a>\u00a0in that Arizona county spawned conspiracy theories about vote rigging. The claims spread despite explanations from local officials \u2014 including ones from both parties \u2014 and assurances that\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-8\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-donald-trump-phoenix-95274ab1762028587c642fad6812356b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all votes would be counted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understandable that people would go on social media to complain about long election lines or glitchy voting machines, said University of Washington professor Kate Starbird, a leading misinformation researcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is when their audiences pick that up with this assumed voter fraud implication,\u201d Starbird said. \u201cIt gets picked up and\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-9\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-voting-909279666c18777c44a9fad6754f3de7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reframed as voter fraud<\/a>\u00a0as it spreads.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine that. You terrible people with secretive mega-MAGA agendas had the nerve to actually raise questions about a situation that immediately smelled like seafood you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/weird-restaurant-secret-dont-o#:~:text=Here&#039;s%20why%2C%20as%20reported%20by,get%20deliveries%20over%20the%20weekend.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">order on a Monday<\/a> in a New York City restaurant. This must be that \u201cthreat to our very democracy\u201d that MSNBC was warning us about for months before election day finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s pause for a moment and think about the situation in Maricopa county. We\u2019re not talking about one or two machines that someone forgot to plug in on Tuesday morning. Machines at more than sixty locations went down almost immediately. And these machines were brand new models from Diebold that had been installed at great expense because of the rampant failures of other voting machines (also made by Diebold) during the previous election.<\/p>\n<p>Those machines were all supposedly tested only a couple of weeks earlier with witnesses from both parties supervising the testing. Is it really that crazy or conspiratorial to wonder how that many of them could have suddenly failed in a seemingly identical fashion when they had presumably just been sitting around for two weeks? We were later told that there was a problem with the printing function not using enough force on the paper and technicians were able to correct it.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Perhaps that\u2019s fair enough. But rather than asking people to wait in line or come back later, voters were immediately offered a choice of filling out a ballot and leaving it for election workers to scan in later. Alternatively, they could \u201ccheck out\u201d from their polling place and go to a different location to \u201ccheck in\u201d once again at a site that was not expecting them. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I\u2019m not suggesting that we have any sort of evidence of intentional tampering or vote rigging. But is anyone honestly shocked that people would notice all of this and have questions come to mind? That\u2019s particularly trenchant when you consider that the majority of Arizona residents vote in Maricopa County and Joe Biden only carried that county by two points in 2020. And the results they managed to deliver on Tuesday night were really not lining up with what the polling experts had led us to expect. Plus, one of the most closely watched races there involved Kari Lake, who had repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/nov\/08\/kari-lake-arizona-governor-candidate-media-worst-fricking-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised to be<\/a> \u201cthe worst fricking nightmare\u201d for the mainstream media, including the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>So should we be questioning the voting equipment and the integrity of the people running the elections or demanding the scalps of the pollsters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/az\/arizona_governor_lake_vs_hobbs-7842.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who said<\/a> Kari Lake was up by anywhere from three to five points going into election day? She finished the early tally doing five or six points worse and trailing her opponent by a narrow margin. There are so many votes left to count that both Lake and Blake Masters could theoretically come back to secure victories, but it\u2019s an uphill climb.<\/p>\n<p>All I\u2019m saying is that there were enough factors baked into the cake in Maricopa County that it\u2019s almost impossible for people to not have questions at this point. So rather than preaching from the MSM soapbox and accusing everyone of having nefarious intents, perhaps the media could work toward answering all of those questions in a transparent fashion. <em>That<\/em> is how you will achieve the confidence in the outcome of the election that you claim to desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The votes from Tuesday are still being tabulated in a number of places since we apparently aren\u2019t as smart as France when it comes to counting ballots. 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