{"id":1737339,"date":"2022-11-13T20:33:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737339"},"modified":"2022-11-13T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T01:33:05","slug":"maricopa-county-is-still-counting-votes-but-they-had-time-to-lash-out-at-disinformation-super-spreaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-is-still-counting-votes-but-they-had-time-to-lash-out-at-disinformation-super-spreaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County Is Still Counting Votes, But They Had Time To Lash Out At \u2018Disinformation Super Spreaders\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fmaricopa-county-is-still-counting-votes-but-they-had-time-to-lash-out-at-disinformation-super-spreaders%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=1737339&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>Officials in Maricopa County are still counting votes from last Tuesday\u2019s midterm election \u2014 and the results of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-democrat-incumbent-mark-kelly-defeats-republican-blake-masters-in-arizona-senate-race-projection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several races<\/a> still hang in the balance \u2014 but they took a few minutes on Saturday to lash out at everyone from the voters and the candidates to bots and \u201cdisinformation super spreaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The brief Twitter thread essentially informed everyone that every vote would be counted, counted only once, and then announced when the count was determined to be accurate \u2014 and not a second before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVOTERS: All legal votes will be counted. Your vote will count equally whether it is reported first, last, or somewhere in between. Thank you for participating,\u201d the thread began.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CANDIDATES: All legal votes will be counted, including votes for you. If you have the most votes in the final tally, you will be elected. If you do not have the most votes, you will have lost your election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1591527778280935425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCANDIDATES: All legal votes will be counted, including votes for you,\u201d it continued. \u201cIf you have the most votes in the final tally, you will be elected. If you do not have the most votes, you will have lost your election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning then to address the social media response to their protracted counting process, the thread continued: \u201cDISINFORMATION SUPER SPREADERS: Please read Arizona election law &#038; the elections procedures manual before asking leading questions about how something seems suspicious. There are processes + checks and balances in place to make sure every legal vote is only counted once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SOCIAL MEDIA BOTS: Your disapproval is duly noted but your upvotes and retweets will not be part of this year\u2019s totals. This is not meant as an affront to your robot overlords, it\u2019s just not allowed for in Arizona law.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1591527781371887618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSOCIAL MEDIA BOTS: Your disapproval is duly noted but your upvotes and retweets will not be part of this year\u2019s totals. This is not meant as an affront to your robot overlords, it\u2019s just not allowed for in Arizona law,\u201d the thread concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone was buying the official story, however. One critic tweeted, \u201cMaricopa County is using words like \u2018disinformation superspreaders\u2019 and calling everyone who challenges them \u2018bots.\u2019 This is textbook partisan language from people who are in a position that requires neutrality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maricopa county is using words like \u201cdisinformation superspreaders\u201d and calling everyone who challenges them \u201cbots\u201d. This is textbook partisan language from people who are in a position that requires neutrality. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XtpHKkeN7o\">https:\/\/t.co\/XtpHKkeN7o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRHLofficial\/status\/1591577040142348290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/maricopa-county-arizona-experiences-large-number-of-voting-machine-malfunctions-early-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maricopa County<\/a> has been under scrutiny since before Election Day, when a number of federal-only ballots were sent out to voters who should have received full ballots. Things only got worse on Tuesday when some of the polling place tabulation machines failed to function properly right from the start. Arizona Senate candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2022\/11\/12\/midterm-elections-bill-gates-maricopa-county-arizona-ballot-mixing-sot-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blake Masters<\/a> (R) \u2014 who ultimately lost to Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) \u2014 then alleged ballots that had not yet been counted may have gotten mixed in with ballots that had already been passed through the functioning tabulation machines.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the scrutiny is Arizona Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-secretary-of-state-wants-to-be-governor-shes-showed-up-to-work-19-days-in-the-last-6-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie Hobbs<\/a> \u2014 whose race is among those that are still too close to call \u2014 because, as the sitting Secretary of State, she is Arizona\u2019s top election official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Maricopa County are still counting votes from last Tuesday\u2019s midterm election \u2014 and the results of several races still hang in the balance \u2014 but they took a few minutes on Saturday to lash out at everyone from the voters and the candidates to bots and \u201cdisinformation super spreaders.\u201d The brief Twitter thread &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1737342,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1737339","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}