{"id":1809079,"date":"2023-01-18T07:04:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1809079"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:27:44","slug":"with-25000-mysterious-votes-and-missing-documents-maricopas-2022-election-process-marked-by-chaos-and-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-25000-mysterious-votes-and-missing-documents-maricopas-2022-election-process-marked-by-chaos-and-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"With 25,000 Mysterious Votes And Missing Documents, Maricopa\u2019s 2022 Election Process Marked By Chaos And Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fwith-25000-mysterious-votes-and-missing-documents-maricopas-2022-election-process-marked-by-chaos-and-uncertainty%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=1809079&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>The GOP and conservative media are largely moving on from Arizona&#8217;s gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake, and the <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\">systemic failures<\/a> This occurred in Maricopa County on November 8, court testimony, and eyewitness reports were from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/12\/maricopa-countys-maladministration-of-2022-elections-cost-kari-lake-the-governors-race-lawsuit-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lake trial<\/a> include allegations that Arizona\u2019s largest county violated state law by failing to implement chain-of-custody documentation for Election Day ballots, resulting in a mysterious 25,000 extra votes added to Maricopa County\u2019s official tally within a 24-hour period \u2014 more than the margin of victory between Lake and gubernatorial victor Katie Hobbs.<\/p>\n<p>It was about 10:00 on election night when Maricopa County\u2019s ballot tabulation vendor, Runbeck Election Services, received its first truckload of Election Day drop box ballots. Runbeck received seven truckloads of ballots, the last one arriving at 5 a.m. on the morning after the election. However, Runbeck staff found it strange that the deliveries didn&#8217;t arrive earlier in the day. But that wasn\u2019t the only glitch. It was a departure from the usual procedure that there were no chain of custody forms included with the ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Marie, a Runbeck employee, said that drop-box ballots were used prior to Nov. 8. \u201cdelivered in red bins with a chain of custody form\u201d From the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center, which lists how many ballots have been delivered.<\/p>\n<p>But on election night, \u201cinstead of receiving the ballots in red bins, the ballots from the drop boxes had been placed in mail trays and loaded onto mail cages. MCTEC did not include the Maricopa County Delivery Receipt forms with any of the Election Day drop box ballot deliveries. There were no chain of custody forms with the ballots and no count of the number of ballots that were delivered,\u201d Marie wrote the following in a sworn <a href=\"https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/link\/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:093ede4c-6481-371a-85a7-5aa83e06d741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affidavit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County Co-Director of Elections Reynaldo Valenzuela even testified that while the county\u2019s election workers count drop box ballots and record the counts on documents as required by law prior to Election Day, they did not count the ballots retrieved from drop boxes on Election Day itself. Valenzuela answered the court when he was asked if Maricopa County officials knew the exact number drop box ballots available for Election Day. \u201cOn Election Day, no, because we\u2019re not doing drop box courier process at that time. It\u2019s a different process for Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Olsen from Lake attorney says that this is in direct contravention of the Constitution <a href=\"https:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/az\/title-16-elections-and-electors\/az-rev-st-sect-16-621.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona state statute<\/a>This requires that the county recorder keep records that track the chain of custody for the ballots \u201cduring early voting through the completion of provisional voting tabulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per Arizona\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2019_ELECTIONS_PROCEDURES_MANUAL_APPROVED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election Procedures Manual<\/a>When ballots are removed from drop boxes they must be either counted at the local poll center or placed in secure ballot transport containers that can be returned to the county for tabulation. The county recorder or election official must count all ballots in the container and take a retrieval form.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County tabulators received a greater number of Election Day drop-box ballots than any other county.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona law requires the county recorder to show the origins of and chain-of-custody documents for every drop box ballot obtained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1898003,"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":"With 25,000 Mysterious Votes And Missing Documents, Maricopa\u2019s 2022 Election Process Marked By Chaos And Uncertainty","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3990,15387,5441,5407,3728,6919,15388,15389,10255,8875,4974,15390,4030],"class_list":["post-1809079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-3990","tag-15387","tag-chaos","tag-documents","tag-election","tag-federalist","tag-maricopas","tag-marked","tag-missing","tag-mysterious","tag-process","tag-uncertainty","tag-votes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"With 25,000 Mysterious Votes And Missing Documents, Maricopa\u2019s 2022 Election Process Marked By Chaos And Uncertainty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809079","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}