{"id":1772652,"date":"2022-12-12T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772652"},"modified":"2022-12-12T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:47:34","slug":"maricopa-countys-maladministration-of-2022-elections-cost-kari-lake-the-governors-race-lawsuit-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-countys-maladministration-of-2022-elections-cost-kari-lake-the-governors-race-lawsuit-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County\u2019s \u2018Maladministration\u2019 Of 2022 Elections Cost Kari Lake The Governor\u2019s Race, Lawsuit Claims"},"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\">28<\/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-countys-maladministration-of-2022-elections-cost-kari-lake-the-governors-race-lawsuit-claims%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=1772652&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 GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County election officials on Friday, alleging that the widespread problems experienced by Election Day voters were enough to change the outcome of the highly contested gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n<p>Filed in Maricopa\u2019s superior court against Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, County Recorder Stephen Richer, and the county\u2019s board of supervisors, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/4151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> raises numerous issues regarding Maricopa\u2019s conduction of the 2022 election, which Lake claims disenfranchised thousands of predominantly-Republican voters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe debacle that occurred in Maricopa County on [Nov. 8] \u2014 was \u2018chaos\u2019 as Maricopa County\u2019s Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates admitted on live TV during a press conference held shortly after Election Day,\u201d the suit reads. \u201cVideo footage, first-hand accounts, and expert testimony directly contradict Maricopa County officials\u2019 public statements deliberately attempting to downplay [the pandemonium].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of polls opening on Election Day, printers with misconfigured settings in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/23\/maricopa-county-made-arizonas-elections-even-more-of-a-disaster-than-people-realize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at least 70 of Maricopa\u2019s 223 voting centers<\/a> produced ballots that were rejected by many of the center\u2019s vote tabulator machines, leading to long wait lines and confusion among poll workers and voters. While Gates and Richer told voters they could leave their original centers to vote at another location, the unfamiliarity with existing \u201ccheck out\u201d procedures resulted in more chaos. <\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at alternate centers, some voters were told by election officials that the county\u2019s e-Pollbook had them marked as having already voted since they hadn\u2019t been properly \u201cchecked out\u201d of their original locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result of this confusion was predictable \u2014 a larger reduction in the number of votes cast for Lake, a much smaller reduction in the number of votes cast for Hobbs, and a highly improper relative advantage created for Hobbs,\u201d the lawsuit reads.<\/p>\n<p>Lake claims that Election Day voters in Maricopa favored her over Hobbs by a 3:1 ratio and their ability to properly vote would have resulted in her gaining between 15,000 to 30,000 votes in the county\u2019s final election canvass. According to Arizona\u2019s certified election results, Hobbs defeated Lake by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/21\/arizona-ag-demands-maricopa-officials-answer-for-reportedly-mixing-counted-and-uncounted-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roughly 17,000 votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also included in the legal filing are accusations of illegal ballots being tabulated over the course of the election. Citing sworn testimony from several poll workers involved in Maricopa\u2019s signature verification and curing process for early voting ballots, Lake contends that the county\u2019s signature verification managers \u201chad a practice of sending already rejected ballots back through the process,\u201d which allegedly led to as many as tens of thousands of ballots with \u201cmismatched signatures\u201d being officially counted.<\/p>\n<p>Testimonies alleging chain of custody issues are also included in the suit, with Lake asserting that Maricopa election officials failed to document chain of custody records for nearly 300,000 ballots as required by Arizona law.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to requests for access to Maricopa\u2019s 2022 ballots and an examination of the printer-tabulator problems, Lake has asked the court to vacate the certification of the 2022 gubernatorial contest and require Maricopa County to re-conduct another election \u201cin conformance with all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County election officials on Friday, alleging that the widespread problems experienced by Election Day voters were enough to change the outcome of the highly contested gubernatorial race. Filed in Maricopa\u2019s superior court against Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, County Recorder [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1772655,"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":[8209,3990,4856,5975,8208,6571,6919,5638,8210,8211,4585,3661,5069],"class_list":["post-1772652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-maladministration","tag-3990","tag-claims","tag-cost","tag-countys","tag-elections","tag-federalist","tag-governors","tag-kari","tag-lake","tag-lawsuit","tag-maricopa","tag-race"],"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\/1772652","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}