{"id":1749823,"date":"2022-11-23T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749823"},"modified":"2022-11-23T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:03:08","slug":"newt-gingrich-calls-for-honest-count-in-arizona-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-calls-for-honest-count-in-arizona-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich Calls for &#8220;Honest Count&#8221; in Arizona Election"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnewt-gingrich-calls-for-honest-count-in-arizona-election%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=1749823&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a> candidate for governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kari-lake\">Kari Lake<\/a> deserves to see an \u201chonest count\u201d after nearly a dozen Republican attorneys described widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election\">election<\/a> day problems in the state\u2019s Maricopa county, said Epoch Times contributor and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all she has to say right now is that she wants to see exactly what happens, and she wants to see whether or not there\u2019s a final result,\u201d Gingrich said talking about Lake who has refused so far to concede to her opponent Kati Hobbs.<\/p>\n<p>On election day, widespread problems with tabulation equipment took place affecting about 30 percent of all voting locations and an estimated 17,000 ballots, according to local election officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/rnc-attorneys-that-surveyed-maricopa-county-voting-sites-confirm-widespread-problems_4879174.html\">Republican National Committee attorneys<\/a> observing election sites in the county, the problems resulted in long lines and frustrated voters leaving the vote centers without voting, leading to \u201csubstantial voter suppression.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich described the finding as \u201castonishing\u201d and noted that these problems particularly affected Republican voters, who tend to vote on election day.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gingrich, if the issue had affected primarily democrat voters \u201cyou would\u2019ve had a huge outcry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to me what a big mess this is,\u201d Gingrich said.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Attorney General\u2019s office has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/arizonas-election-integrity-unit-demands-answers-from-maricopa-county-over-election-day-problems_4874697.html\">opened an inquiry<\/a> into the polling issues in Maricopa after receiving hundreds of complaints. Jennifer Wright, the assistant attorney general, said the ballot-on-demand printers were tested the night prior to the elections without any apparent problems but that tabulators began having trouble reading the ballots printed by the printers \u201cwithin the first thirty minutes of voting\u201d the next day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4860003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lake-hobbs-1200x800-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-large wp-image-4860003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lake-hobbs-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4860003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lake-hobbs-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Republican Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake, left, and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. (Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cArizonans deserve a full report and accounting of the myriad problems that occurred in relation to Maricopa County\u2019s administration of the 2022 General Election,\u201d she wrote in a letter. The deadline she set for a response from the civil division of the Maricopa County Attorney\u2019s Office is Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich believes that Lake \u201cshould be in favor of an honest count\u201d and advised her to \u201cbe prepared to be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think she should make any charges until they know something, but certainly there are enough things going on, and the fact that the Attorney General of Arizona is now involved says to me that it\u2019s a situation that\u2019s worth looking into,\u201d he said. \u201cShe has no reason to jump ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two rural Arizona counties, Mohave and Cochise, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mohave-county-delays-certifying-arizona-election-results-in-protest_4877875.html\">put off<\/a> certifying midterm election results in a protest against issues occurring in Maricopa. Unlike Mohave, which promised to certify results by Nov. 28, Cochise has not made such an explicit pledge. The state elections director Kori Lorick on Monday warned that Cochise county votes could go uncounted if the secretary of state\u2019s office doesn\u2019t receive the certification by Dec. 5, potentially giving a boost to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Lake, a former local news anchor, has been sharing videos of voters complaining about their election-day experience. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/kari-lake-gives-update-says-whistleblowers-are-coming-forward_4877436.html\">released a statement<\/a> on Monday saying her attorney has been \u201cworking diligently to gather information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhistleblowers are coming forward and the curtain is being lifted. Whether done accidentally or intentionally it is clear that this election was a debacle that destroyed any trust in our elections,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-eva-fu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/15f130a8712a9ef5_ttl7dayQgw_WEB_EvaFu.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Fu\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bio\">Eva Fu is a New York-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:eva.fu@epochtimes.com\">eva.fu@epochtimes.com<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona candidate for governor Kari Lake deserves to see an \u201chonest count\u201d after nearly a dozen Republican attorneys described widespread election day problems in the state\u2019s Maricopa county, said Epoch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1749539,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1749823","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}