{"id":1935832,"date":"2023-05-22T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-appears-confident-as-maricopa-election-trial-ends\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T22:58:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:58:40","slug":"kari-lake-appears-confident-as-maricopa-election-trial-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-appears-confident-as-maricopa-election-trial-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Lake exudes confidence as Maricopa election trial concludes."},"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\">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%2Fkari-lake-appears-confident-as-maricopa-election-trial-ends%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=1935832&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--><h2>Arizona Republican Candidate Claims Signature Verification Issues in Midterm Elections<\/h2>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>Kari Lake, an Arizona Republican candidate, has accused Maricopa County of not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-appears-confident-as-maricopa-election-trial-ends\/\" title=\"Kari Lake exudes confidence as Maricopa election trial concludes.\">performing signature verification<\/a> on hundreds of thousands of early ballots during the November midterms. However, the county has denied these claims.<\/p>\n<h3>The Trial<\/h3>\n<p>After a three-day trial, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson will issue a decision to determine whether Lake and her lawyers were able to prove their case. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-vs-arizona-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Kari Lake vs. Arizona Supreme Court\">signature verification issue<\/a> could go to trial.<\/p>\n<h3>Arguments<\/h3>\n<p>Lake&#8217;s lawyers argue that there was a flood of mail-in ballots in Maricopa County at a time when there were too few workers to verify ballot signatures. They claim that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-election-challenge-heads-to-trial-maricopa-voter-signatures-under-scrutiny\/\" title=\"Kari Lake Election Challenge Heads to Trial, Maricopa Voter Signatures Under Scrutiny\">county ultimately accepted thousands<\/a> of ballots that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guatemala-president-keynotes-dc-pro-life-reception-after-biden-excludes-him-from-democracy-summit\/\" title=\"Guatemala President Keynotes DC Pro-Life Reception After Biden Excludes Him from Democracy Summit\">rejected earlier<\/a> by workers for having mismatched signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County has a failed process for verifying thousands of ballot signatures that even some of its own workers question, her attorneys argued in court. Lake\u2019s lawyers spent most of the trial\u2019s first day showing video and taking testimony from two previous signature screeners who alleged election workers were overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Maricopa Attorney Thomas Liddy rejected Olsen\u2019s conclusion based on those calculations during last week\u2019s trial. He stated that there was no competent, mathematical calculation to conclude that a sufficient number of votes were improperly counted so as to affect the election\u2019s outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maricopa County officials are in disagreement over whether signature verification was conducted on early ballots during the November midterms. A decision from the Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson is expected after a three-day trial. Republican candidate Kari Lake claims that hundreds of thousands of ballots were not verified, while the county maintains that they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1935833,"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":[],"tags":[18984,6711,3728,27367,8210,8211,3661,4853],"class_list":["post-1935832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-concludes","tag-confidence","tag-election","tag-exudes","tag-kari","tag-lake","tag-maricopa","tag-trial"],"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\/1935832","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}