Ballot-stuffing was what happened in Az. in 2022, suckers

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It’s Beginning: Arizona Ballot Stuffer Caught Covering Up License Plate​

Link: http://www.madnesshub.com/2022/10/its-beginning-arizona-ballot-stuffer.html

[see vid at site link, above]

October 19, 2022 News

A recent post by Melody Jennings the founder of Clean Elections USA, reveals ballot stuffing has already begun in Arizona.
Melody Jennings took to Truth Social and posted a picture of a car with its license plate covered up.
The picture of the mysterious car with its license plate covered up was located outside of a ballot box in Phoenix, Arizona.
Take a look at the car in question:

After Jennings posted the picture of the alleged ballot stuffer, it garnered thousands of likes and even caught President Trump’s attention.
The 45th president even ReTruthed the post of the car with its license plate blacked out.

Jennings is the founder of Clean Elections USA, an organization that aims to keep an eye on election drop-off boxes.
According to the Clean Elections USA site, their goal is to “legally deter people from committing voter fraud. The only way we can do this is to monitor those drop box locations with a team of volunteers. We are looking for true Patriots to take a stand and watch the drop boxes. We want to gather video (and live witness evidence) of any ballot tampering that takes place in real-time.”
It’s great to see patriots like Melody being the solution to the ongoing election fraud that is running rampant all across the US.
Watch Melody’s discussion with Steve Bannon about the importance of watching drop boxes here:
 

BREAKING: Audit Results of Primary Election in Torrance County, New Mexico Show Differences Between Hand Counts and SOS Records of Up to 25%​

By Joe Hoft
Published October 24, 2022 at 5:20pm

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-show-differences-hand-counts-sos-records-25/

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An audit of the primary results in Torrance County, New Mexico uncovered numerous material items from the election.
CD Media reports:
Torrance County, NM recently held an audit of their primary election and the results showed a stunning 25% difference between machine and hand count results.
Torrance is a small county but the significance is huge for the 2022 general election on Nov 8.
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Attorney David Clements shared more on his Telegram page:
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The errors appeared to be in the Republican block of votes!
Erin Clements, an engineer and the wife of David Clements was also involved in the audit. She shared the following:
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The Clements family is doing all it can to bring free and fair elections back to the states.
 

BREAKING: Grassroots Group Releases Footage of Maricopa County Ballot Mules Stuffing Ballots in a Drop Box – VIDEO​

By Jordan Conradson
Published November 16, 2022 at 9:45am

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ballot-mules-stuffing-ballots-drop-box-video/

[see vid at site link, above]

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Video footage recorded by the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center’s live drop box camera and released by We The People USA Alliance shows multiple individuals driving up to the drop box and depositing numerous and sometimes entire stacks of ballots at a time.
This is why leftist groups sued to ban Patriots from filming dropboxes in Arizona.

The Gateway Pundit reported that a federal judge banned cameras or videotaping of any ballot trafficker at a drop box days before the election, giving the election fraudsters and Democratic ballot traffickers free reign.
At the time, Kari Lake held a 10-point lead in several polls, including an 11-point lead in the recent FOX 10 poll from Arizona.
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On Monday, we reported that Trump-Endorsed Arizona Gubernatorial Nominee Kari Lake had her election taken from her.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on an investigation into Maricopa County ballot harvesting, which used Public Records Requests for all ballot box retrieval and chain of custody forms utilized in Maricopa County during the 2020 General Election. The report concluded that Maricopa County officials violated Arizona law and did not have the required chain of custody for at least 740,000 ballots.

Additionally, Dinesh D’Souza and True The Vote’s 2000 Mules Documentary 2000 Mules documentary found at least 200 ballot Mules in Maricopa County trafficked 207,435 illegal votes through ballot drop boxes.

This is how the Democrats stole the 2020 election, and they used it again in 2022.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer posted a snarky tweet on November 3, joking about going through the footage of ballot traffickers and making fun of the 2000 Mules documentary.
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The Gateway Pundit also reported on the serious issues in Maricopa County’s General Election last Tuesday. Due to the incompetence of Maricopa County and Katie Hobbs, tabulators were down, printers ran out of ink, and long, long lines kept Republican voters waiting to cast their ballots. Republican voters were told to drop their ballots into a separate container called box 3 to be counted later. Election experts and election workers later reported that these uncounted ballots were mixed with already counted ballots, leaving no way of knowing if all legal votes were counted!
Despite this issue occurring at over 30% of polling locations on election day, the corrupt Maricopa County officials would have us believe that only 17,000 ballots were affected and dropped into box 3.
Impossible!
Democrat Katie Hobbs was also called on by many Republicans and even some Democrats in Arizona to recuse herself from election oversight as Secretary of State in her own election leading up to November 8. She refused to do so, and she stole another election.
In the video below, people can be seen shoving multiple ballots into the container one by one and dumping stacks of ballots into the dropbox. Elections workers are then seen allowing more ballots into the wide-open, unsecured box after the 7 pm deadline on November 8.

Watch: [ck site link, above, top]
 

Arizona Voter Fraud Reveals Our Government Is Far More Corrupt Than We Realize​

Jon Bowne | Infowars.com
March 4th 2023, 1:49 pm

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/ariz...vernment-is-far-more-corrupt-than-we-realize/

Forensic investigator accused state and county officials, including Governor Katie Hobbs, of being parties to a racketeering operation to trade influence with the Sinaloa Cartel for control over elections and anyone that stood in their way.

In 1989, the Sinaloa Cartel dug its first drug tunnel between a house in Agua Prieta, Sonora to a warehouse located in Douglas, Arizona. Now, thirty four years later, new evidence reveals that the Mexican drug Cartels have burrowed their way into American Government.

Arizona-based forensic investigator Jacqueline Breger added another layer to the sovereign dismantling corruption narrative after appearing in front of the Arizona Legislature’s Senate Elections Committee and House Municipal Oversight & Elections Committee, spotlighting testimony from voter disenfranchisement researchers concerning the 2020 and 2022 elections.


Breger claimed that while investigating a nationwide racketeering epidemic involving the Sinaloa Cartel, their team accidentally discovered election fraud.

Breger’s testimony courageously accused state and county officials, including Governor Katie Hobbs and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, of being parties to a racketeering web involving a real estate money laundering operation infiltrating all levels of government in order to trade influence to the Sinaloa Cartel for control over elections and anyone that stood in their way.

The revelations that are just beginning to surface beg the question, how far up the government ladder does this corruption lead?

AG Merrick Garland’s testimony on fentanyl and the open border provides no solutions or an end in sight. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is absolutely purposefully useless. And the most compromised President in U.S. history openly displays cold apathy for the unyielding deaths of Americans due to fentanyl flooding our cities.

What motivates these people with the power to fix everything to not only ignore the crisis but contribute to its growth? UN Agenda 2030? Foreign blackmail? Or in addition to these motives do we now add the infiltration of our unconstrained pauper to millionaire representative government held hostage by drug cartels with more infinite laundered cash than these look the other way politicians and sycophantic federal bureaucracies can resist?

Contrary to popular belief, the cartels aren’t merely operating from across our non existent border. They are dug in, thriving right here in the United States through corrupt and treasonous local, state, and federal officials. Feeding on the metastasizing malfeasance rampant within our broken Republic.
 

Kari Lake Alleges She Was Offered A Bribe To Sit Out Of Politics For Two Years​

Link: https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/04/...a-bribe-to-sit-out-of-politics-for-two-years/

[see vid at site link, above]

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HAROLD HUTCHISONREPORTER
March 04, 20234:34 PM ET

Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake of Arizona alleged Saturday that she was offered a bribe to stay out of politics for two years.
“Something happened to me this week before I left for CPAC and it shows how desperate these people are to stop me,” Lake said during the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (RELATED: ‘You Shouldn’t Write Her Off’: BBC Reporter Says Kari Lake Has Lots Of Potential)
“Somebody showed up at my door this week,” Lake continued. “They called me before and said: I gotta talk to you in person, this can’t be done over the phone … They came to my door and they tried to bribe me out of getting out of politics. This really happened. I’m telling you this because this is how disgusting politics is. A mom who runs for office and they’re afraid of me? They tried to bribe me with a job title, with a huge salary, a position on a board.”

WATCH: [see site link, above, top]

Lake narrowly lost the Arizona gubernatorial election to Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, refusing to concede and filing legal challenges. The election was marred by tabulation machine malfunctions in at least 20% of the voting centers, prompting an apology from local officials and a Republican lawsuit to extend voting hours that was dismissed by a Maricopa County judge.
Lake lost an initial court case contesting the election, but a judge rejected a request from Hobbs to impose sanctions.
Lake is reportedly considering a run for the Senate seat held by Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party on Jan. 23, in 2024. Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego announced his candidacy for the seat on Jan. 23.
Lake said she rejected the offer to sit out, and claimed she was asked to name her price “to get out of politics for two years.” She then said she told the person to “let your handlers back east know that I can’t name a price, because there is no price that I would sell out my country for.”

“I’m not going anywhere,” Lake said.
 

BREAKING: Kari Lake Scores HUGE Victory in Election Integrity Court Fight​

Link: https://dcenquirer.com/breaking-kar...ction-integrity-court-fight/?utm_source=89385

On Wednesday evening, the Arizona Supreme Court issued its ruling in regards to 2022 Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s case on the irregularities during the midterm election leading to the court calling for a trial court to reexamine if Maricopa County properly followed signature verification procedures during the election.

Lake brought the case following her defeat in November to former Arizona Secretary of State and current Governor Katie Hobbs (D-AZ). Hobbs, who at the time oversaw the election process as secretary of state, won the governorship with 50.3 percent of the vote, 1,287,890 votes, while Lake secured 49.7 percent of the vote, 1,270,774 votes, according to Politico.
At the time, there were multiple election irregularities on Election Day leading to Lake’s team claiming that voters were disenfranchised. Reportedly, according to Just the News, over 60 percent of the voting centers in Maricopa County were affected on November 8th.
With a margin of defeat of approximately 17,000 votes, such irregularities matter.

So the ruling on Wednesday evening is a win for Lake’s efforts. The court announced, “IT IS FURTHER ORDERED remanding to the trial court to determine whether the claim that Maricopa County failed to comply with A.R.S. § 16-550(A) fails to state a claim pursuant to Ariz. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) for reasons other than laches, or, whether Petitioner can prove her claim as alleged pursuant to A.R.S. § 16-672 and establish that ‘votes [were] affected ‘in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome of the election’ based on a ‘competent mathematical basis to conclude that the outcome would plausibly have been different, not simply an untethered assertion of uncertainty.'”

ALVIN BRAGG, ACCUSED OF HIDING EVIDENCE, MAY BE AT RISK OF BEING CHARGED HIMSELF

In response to the court’s ruling, Lake wrote on Twitter, “HUGE: AZ Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Kari Lake, Forces Lower Court to Look at Signature Verification Issues.”

“Signature Verification has been the third rail for Maricopa County for the past few years,” wrote Kari Lake War Room. “They have thrown every obstacle at Arizona election integrity activists to prevent them from reaching it. Unfortunately for them, they messed with the wrong woman.”

As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, earlier this month, the Arizona Supreme Court allowed for an expedited process in the Lake case after an appellate court rejected Lake’s challenges. The expedited process has paid off.
With yet another victory for Lake’s efforts to reestablish election integrity in the state of Arizona, the return to lower courts will likely bring more answers to the voters of Arizona about how the integrity of their vote was impacted in the midterm elections.
The full Arizona Supreme Court order can be found here.
 

Arizona Supreme Court Will Allow Kari Lake to Expose Mail-In Ballot Signature Scam​

March 24, 2023 Steve Bannon's War Room

Link: https://needtoknow.news/2023/03/ari...lake-to-expose-mail-in-ballot-signature-scam/

[see vids at site link, above]

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Kari Lake, who lost the race to become governor and filed a lawsuit alleging election fraud, will be allowed to expose the Signature Verification security system on mail-in ballots, which she says is corrupt. Kari Lake said that Adrian Fontes, the current Secretary of State of Arizona who was the Maricopa County Recorder during the contested 2020 election, is a Mexican drug cartel attorney and a fraud. Lake may face criminal charges over allegations that she shared voter signatures on social media.

Caroline Wren, who ran Kari Lake’s campaign for Arizona governor, said that three whistleblowers involved in the Signature Verification department in Maricopa County said that tens of thousands of signatures, perhaps as many as 130,000 were rejected, but someone counted the rejected ballots anyway.

Link for video: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ECJ6hGgsd4p5/

Link for video: https://www.bitchute.com/video/pIysEeU2UgeL/
 

HUGE: Arizona House Joins Senate In Passing Resolution To Ban Foreign Voting Machines And Require Source Code, Ballot Images, Chain Of Custody Documents, And Log Files To Be Made Public​


Women System March 31, 2023

Link: http://www.womensystems.com/2023/03/huge-arizona-house-joins-senate-in.html

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SCR1037 House Vote
The Arizona House voted yesterday to pass Senate Concurrent Resolution 1037, setting official requirements for the use of electronic voting machines in the state and banning the use of some.
The resolution passed in the Arizona Senate on March 6 by a vote of 16-13.
On Thursday, March 30, The Arizona House joined the Senate and voted 31-27 in favor.
This resolution will bypass the Governor and go directly to the Secretary of State’s office. If the Secretary of State does not comply with this order, the Legislature can and likely will sue.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the Arizona Senate Elections Committee, chaired by State Senator Wendy Rogers, passed the amended resolution introduced by State Senator Anthony Kern.
State Senator Sonny Borrelli’s strike everything amendment set official requirements for the voting machines to ensure all levels of production occur in the United States, source code is made publicly available, and directing the Secretary of State to post ballot images, chain of custody documents, and log files on their website within 24 hours after polls close.
It states:
Page 1, strike everything after the resolving clause and insert:
“That no voting system or component or subcomponent of a voting system or component, including firmware software or hardware, assemblies and subassemblies with integrated circuits or on which any firmware or software operates, may be used or purchased as the primary method for casting, recording and tabulating ballots used in any election held in this state for federal office unless:
1. All components have been designed, manufactured, integrated and assembled in the United States from trusted suppliers, using trusted processes accredited by the Defense Microelectronics Activity as prescribed by the United States Department of Defense; and
2. The source code used in any computerized voting machine for federal elections is made available to the public; and
3. The ballot images and system log files from each tabulator are recorded on a secure write-once, read-many media with clear chain of custody and posted on the Secretary of State’s website free of charge to the public within twenty-four hours after the close of the polls; and
4. The legislature transmits this resolution to the secretary of state.”
Read the full resolution here.
The House Bill Summary states, “the Secretary of State is charged with appointing a committee to investigate and test the various types of vote tabulating machines. The committee submits its recommendations to the Secretary of State who will then decide the make or model to be certified for use in the state.”
Following its passage in the Elections Committee, Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted,
SCR 1037 is AZ legislature resolved to reclaim its plenary power to oversee FEDERAL elections per the US Constitution, irrespective of governor.

Katie Hobbs cannot veto this legislation as she has done with an overwhelming majority of the bills sent to her desk.
 

New Testimony Confirms Ballot Tampering in Maricopa’s 2022 Election​

By Wendi Strauch Mahoney
April 3, 2023

Link: https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/04/0...-ballot-tampering-in-maricopas-2022-election/

Heat Maps/Election Day/Maricopa County Elections Department via AP

New testimony from Bob Hughes confirms ballot tampering in Maricopa County’s 2022 election. Hughes states in his affidavit that “an intentional change was made to the printers affecting the DAY OF Election ballots” in the 2022 Maricopa County midterm election. Hughes’ affidavit in Exhibit K of a newly filed Motion to Reconsider in Mark Finchem’s dismissed 2022 election lawsuit confirms previous testimony from Clay Parikh. Parikh was one of several expert witnesses in the Kari Lake lawsuit.

Parikh testified there are “only two ways the printing of a 19-inch image on a 20-inch paper happened, and they are both intentional. He explained, “One way is by changing the printer adjustments. That would make the printer adjustments, and settings override the image file that was set. The other is from the application side or the operating system side.”
Hughes has 50 years of experience in the printing industry—16 of which have been in “printing ballots for Maricopa County Elections,” according to his affidavit. He also helped “establish the auditing criteria for the printing and paper portion of the 2020 Maricopa County ballot audit and helped select and set up the equipment used during the audit to do the ballot counting.”
On Mar. 6, 2023, he and his team reviewed the Logic and Accuracy reports (L&A) for the 2022 Maricopa County Election. Hughes and his team “physically inspected the ballots at MCTEC that were used in the testing of the election tabulators.” They also reviewed each of the Maricopa County Voting Center certification reports and the Tabulator reports that were “printed during their testing.” His affidavit clarifies explicitly that “[t]he most important and notable finding is that every machine and every voting center report show that every test was passed without any failures.”
Personalized ballots were required in the Maricopa County election because of various local elections, such as school district races. Therefore “ballot styles” are created for each precinct and “are prepared for each election at MCTEC,” not at the Voting Centers. When a voter arrives at a Voting Center, his identity is verified by the poll worker. The poll worker then uses the County’s e-poll book system to “verify they have not returned a mail-in ballot.” However, on election day, mail-in ballots were also turned in to the Voting Centers, and thus, the e-poll book may not be up-to-date on the status of a given voter’s mail-in ballot.
Contrary to what many want us to believe, Hughes testified that the equipment to carry out the voter verification process and the printing of ballots “need to be networked and online at the same time.”
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Bob Hughes Declaration/03-29-2023
Additionally, and very importantly, is that “ballot STYLES” are “stored PDFs.” They are “locked style formats that cannot be revised on the fly,” according to Hughes. They are “built ahead of each election and stored.” As such, Hughes confidently asserts that the 19-inch format seen in the 2022 Maricopa County election “was incorrectly used by mistake.” Furthermore, Hughes “was told” during his team’s review at MCTEC that “only 20-inch formats were created and no 19-inch formats were created for the 2022 election.” The use of the 19-inch ballot was NOT accidental, according to Hughes. He posits the 19-inch ballots either represent “interference…from someone at MCTEC” or “someone hacking into the MCTEC system.”
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Bob Hughes Affidavit/Exhibit K/Finchem Motion to Reconsider
Logically, Hughes concludes that the shenanigans must have been introduced after testing because the “L&A tests showed no errors.” And, since poll workers have no access to the printer command module, the “interference had to come through the online E-poll book and then to the printers.” Many printers at multiple locations—with a “high correlation of those within Republican precincts,” leaving Hughes with the impression it was “not happenstance but an orchestrated attack on the election.”
Hughes speculates there are a number of ways ballots came to be unreadable because of the “larger margin at the top and the bottom of the page,” as captured in the screenshot below,
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Bob Hughes/Exhibit K/Finchem Motion to Reconsider/ Why the margins?

L & A testing is performed before election day with a test set of ballots. The tests are required to “perform at 100% accuracy rate,” according to Hughes. Hughes was told the Oct. 11 test decks were printed at MCTEC. However, Hughes concludes that “DAY OF Election test decks were printed at each voting center” because of several “clear factors.”
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Bob Hughes Affidavit/Finchem Motion to Reconsider
This assumption led Hughes to conclude that an “intentional change was made to the printers” for Election Day ballots leading to what he believed was “a perfect opportunity for interference in the election.”
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Bob Hughes/Affidavit/Exhibit K/Finchem Motion to Reconsider
 

Maricopa County Releases Results Of Sham Independent 2022 Ballot Printer Investigation Following Election Day Disaster​

Link: http://www.womensystems.com/2023/04/maricopa-county-releases-results-of.html

Women System April 14, 2023

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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has released their report on an “independent investigation” into 2022 Election Day tabulator failures across the County, led by former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Ruth McGregor.
County Supervisor Clint Hickman and Chairman Bill Gates previously announced this investigation with a joint statement in January.
NEW: Former AZ Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor will lead independent investigation into Election Day printer issues. We look forward to her findings. Statement ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/mOhkWideou
— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) January 6, 2023

During their investigation, investigators interviewed multiple employees of Maricopa County and Runbeck Election Services, including Maricopa County Election Director Scott Jarrett. They did not interview any opposing parties or voters who experienced issues on election day to get the true story.
Remember, Scott Jarrett testified in Kari Lake’s election trial that he “did not” hear of any reports of a 19-inch ballot image being placed on a 20-inch ballot paper. He claimed to have “no knowledge” of this occurring and stated, “I don’t believe that that occurred.” He then changed his testimony the next day to state that he learned of a fit-to-paper issue “a few days after Election Day” that printed “a slightly smaller image of a 20-inch image on a 20-inch paper ballot.”
Though he refused to confirm that it was a 19-inch image on a 20-inch ballot paper and simply claimed the image used was “slightly smaller,” Maricopa County’s report seems to confirm that it was a 19-inch image due to the changes made before the General Election.
According to the report, ballots were “increased in length from 19 inches to 20 inches to accommodate the number of contests.” The report further states that “ballots were re-sized as ‘fit to page,’ a process that entirely changed the location of the timing marks on the ballots and assured that neither the on-site tabulators nor the central count tabulators could read the ballots.” Still, they “could not determine” how this change was made, and therefore, whether or not it was intentional sabotage.
Jarrett also confirmed that this fit-to-paper or “fit to page” printing issue “happened in the August 2020 primary election, the November 2020 general election, and the August 2022 primary election.” However, the new report claims that the printers “had been used during the August 2022 primary election, as well as in prior elections, without experiencing similar problems.”
Despite reporting that 60 voting locations were visited for the printing issues described above and that “approximately 70” voting locations were visited for separate issues relating to flaking or speckling of ink on ballots, potentially equaling over 50% of locations, the report concludes that two-thirds of the general election vote centers reported no issues with misprinted ballots.
The report blames the “sharpiegate” ink bleed-through scandal for an increase in paper weight and the increase in ballot paper length for the errors that occurred by forcing printers to “perform at the extreme edge of their capability.” Still, they conclude that the increase in paper weight was likely not a necessary change, as Maricopa County did away with the sharpie markers given to voters at polling centers.
One concerning factor of this report states that Oki B432 printers “showed speckling at the edge of the ballot” during pre-election stress testing, which could have interfered with the timing marks on ballots. Despite this discovery being made in September 2022, Maricopa County moved forward anyway.
Footnote 12 of the report also states that onsight tabulators were not even tested for this issue. “Some of the workers noted flaking or speckling on some ballots and brought it to the attention of supervisors. Because the central tabulators read all ballots, however, the issue was not regarded as affecting the ability to count all ballots and no testing was done using on-site tabulators,” they admit. The report continues, “Whether such testing would have detected the problem experienced on general election day cannot now be determined.”
Regardless, Maricopa County failed to prepare for this election and they must be held accountable for this crime.
From the report:
Most of the printers had been used during the August 2022 primary election, as well as in prior elections, without experiencing similar problems.
Based on our tests, and for the reasons described in this report, we concluded that the combined effect of using 100-pound ballot paper and a 20- inch ballot during the 2022 general election was to require that the Oki B432 printers perform at the extreme edge of their capability, a level that could not be reliably sustained by a substantial number of printers. Although we further concluded that nothing in the printers’ past performance or pre-election stress testing indicated that such a failure was likely, we recommend several alternative approaches that could minimize the likelihood of a similar failure in future elections, including the use of more robust stress testing designed to mimic on- site circumstances.
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office (MCAO) retained me to conduct a focused, fact-specific independent review to determine why printers that performed successfully during the primary election evidenced problems during the general election.
Although we further concluded that nothing in the printers’ past performance or pre-election stress testing indicated that such a failure was likely, we recommend several alternative approaches that could minimize the likelihood of a similar failure in future elections, including the use of more robust stress testing designed to mimic on- site circumstances.
During the 2022 August primary and November general elections, the County used the retrofitted Oki B432 and the Lexmark C4150 BOD printers at the vote centers. These printers had updated firmware and were installed with uniform settings that were the same settings as those used in the 2020 August primary and November general elections.
During the 2022 general election, Maricopa County increased the ballot length from 19 inches, which was used for the primary election ballot, to 20 inches.
the MCED concluded that the Oki and Lexmark printers would function effectively with the change to 100-pound paper. And, during the primary election, the on-site tabulators did successfully process more than 100,000 ballots.
In September 2022, prior to the November general election, the MCED conducted an extensive stress test on the Oki B432 and Lexmark C4150 BOD printers. The Department randomly selected four Oki and four Lexmark printers for testing. Two tests used 100-pound paper and a ballot that was increased in length from 19 inches to 20 inches to accommodate the number of contests, the number of propositions, and the Spanish translations. In the first test, one hundred double-sided ballots were run through each test machine without the envelope or receipt. In the second test, the same number of ballots were run, along with an envelope and receipt. In both tests, the prints were run sequentially, but not intermittently. The media weight settings on the Oki printers were set to heavy for the ballot and medium for the envelope and receipt. The media weight was set to normal on the Lexmark printers for all three settings. The results indicated that two of the Oki printers showed speckling at the edge of the ballot, but that the actual ballot page was clear and not damaged as to the ballot’s overall integrity.
In light of the successful primary election experience using 100-pound ballot paper and its additional tests, the Department concluded that the Oki and Lexmark printers would successfully print the new 100-pound, 20-inch ballot in the general election.
Scott Jarrett, Maricopa County Co-Director of Elections, and the vote center manager decide which printers are assigned to each vote center location. In making the assignments, they consider the size of the room, because Lexmark printers are larger than the Oki printers, as well as historic voter turnout. In general, then, they assign the Lexmark printers to the vote centers that are open for the most days for early voting, have sufficient space to accommodate the Lexmark printers, and traditionally experience heavy voter participation.
Beginning almost immediately on the morning of election day, the MCTEC command center received calls from poll workers reporting that some of the tabulators were not accepting ballots. Each call was memorialized as an Election Reporting System (ERS) ticket by the person receiving the call. If an issue could not be resolved by advice from the command center, a t-tech or Runbeck employee went to the affected vote center to attempt to resolve the reported problem. Runbeck and County technical workers travelled to approximately 70 vote centers to troubleshoot the reports of problems with the BOD printers.
At the outset, Maricopa County and Runbeck identified the cause of the reported problem as being either the on-site tabulators or the BOD printers. As t- techs and Runbeck personnel had more opportunities to examine the problematic ballots, it became clear that the ballots in question could not be read by the tabulator because the print was not properly adhering to the ballot. As a result, some print flaked off, leaving the timing marks needed for the tabulator to record the ballot too faint to serve their purpose.
After consultation among Maricopa County and Runbeck personnel, the County concluded that the printing issue was being caused by a failure of the printer fuser to maintain a heat sufficient to fuse the toner onto the paper.
Another printing anomaly occurred at several vote centers, where ballots were re-sized as “fit to page,” a process that entirely changed the location of the timing marks on the ballots and assured that neither the on-site tabulators nor the central count tabulators could read the ballots. We could not determine whether this change resulted from a technician attempting to correct the printing issues, the most probable source of change, or a problem internal to the printers. During our testing, four printers randomly printed one or a few “fit to page” ballots in the middle of printing a batch of ballots. None of the technical people with whom we spoke could explain how or why that error occurred.
Maricopa County identified approximately 60 vote centers that experienced the printer problems described above.
Maricopa County could not determine which printer caused problems at each site. Hence, if a vote center experienced problems, workers were instructed to change the media weight settings on all printers at that site.
During the time required for the fuser to recover to optimal heat after idling, the printer could experience an inability to properly fuse the toner to the paper, which in turn would result in the flaking and speckling observed on some of the printed ballots.
As explained below, the weight of the paper had the greatest impact on printer failures in our tests and printer failures were greatest when 100-pound paper was used with a 20-inch ballot.
Maricopa County printed its ballots on 80-pound paper for the 2020 primary and general elections. During those elections, MCTEC received no reports of flaking that caused misprinted ballots.
The test results indicate that the changes made to increase the media weight and to change the media type had some impact in reducing the number of faulty ballots, but in no instance did either change eliminate the problem. In some cases, the change in settings actually resulted in an increase in faulty ballots.
Although most of our test printers produced faulty ballots, it is important to keep in mind the fact that, on general election day, the large majority of Oki B432 printers performed well and produced few faulty ballots. Two-thirds of the general election vote centers reported no issues with misprinted ballots.
The combined effect of the heavy paper, longer ballot, and intermittent burst of print demand pushed the printers to perform at the very edge of or past their capability, so that any decrease in fuser performance in an individual printer could result in problems.
Our test experience with the pens used during the 2022 general election and 80-pound paper suggests that bleed-through would not be a problem, although additional testing designed to evaluate that factor would be advantageous.
Kari Lake, whose election was stolen through these failures and other law violations, tweeted her statement on this “unserious” investigation and slammed the conflicting statements between trial testimony and this report.
My statement on Maricopa County's sham internal investigation on the printers they sabotaged on Election Day⤵️ pic.twitter.com/JAt4aFArIN
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 12, 2023

Read the full report below: [ck site link, above, top]
Maricopa County 2022 General Election Ballot-on-Demand Printer Investigation by Jordan Conradson on Scribd

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April 17, 2023 by Kari Donovan

Link: https://frontlineamerica.com/updates-first-domino-in-the-dems-az-fraud-may-be-about-to-fall/

Even though the Maricopa, Arizona election officials removed him and tried to deny Ben Bergquam of Real America’s Voice access to press conferences and press releases regarding the highly suspicious 2022 election for Governor, Bergquam was relentless in bringing the truth to the American people, knowing what a concern election integrity is for the majority of voters.
“Praying the first domino in the Democrats Fraud is about to fall! #ArizonaElectionFraud #AbeWon #KariWon #FinchemWon!,” Bergquam wrote on Monday, and highlighted a story about the troubled election in the race for Attorney General, which may result in something that could impact the entire election by journalist Corinne Murdock, who wrote:
“Recent analysis of uncounted provisional ballots in November’s attorney general race makes a compelling case that Abe Hamadeh received more legal votes than Kris Mayes.
The 2022 faceoff between Hamadeh and Mayes serves as one of the closest races in Arizona’s history. It’s on par with one other historically significant race that was ultimately overturned, even after both the Maricopa County Superior Court and a Democratic Secretary of State had declared a winner: the 1916 gubernatorial election.
However, the year-long contention of that election had to do with the design of the ballots confusing voters on their vote. This time around, just over 100 years later, the issue concerned voters whose votes were denied to them due to government missteps and failures with election administration.
Last Tuesday, the Mohave County Superior Court granted Hamadeh oral arguments in his motion for a new trial challenging the outcome of his election based on hundreds of allegedly disenfranchised voters. That will occur in about a month, on May 16. Hamadeh shared that they have over 250 affidavits from allegedly disenfranchised voters at present. The vote margin difference is 280,” Murdock wrote.
Here is the story that got Bergquam’s attention:

Murdock covered the details of how Hamadeh’s case would proceed, concluding by reporting:
“Then there’s the 269 voters who showed up on election day with their mail-in ballot and checked in — but never had their vote counted. Yet, on the county’s end, those check-ins reflect votes cast. Of those 269 who dropped off mail-in ballots that weren’t counted, 149 were Republicans, 53 were Democrats, and 67 were “other.” Hamadeh reported that many of those voters told his team that their votes weren’t counted.
With a 280 vote margin between Mayes and Hamadeh, any of these contested provisional or mail-in ballots may result in the first race overturned in nearly a century.
And the second race to be overturned in a century could be close behind. And it is not just the provisional ballots that are being examined in the Independent media:

Lake highlighted in her tweet a story by Nick Moseder titled, “Maricopa Makes SHOCKING Admission In 2022 Election “Root Cause Analysis” examining another massive failure by AZ election officials dealing with faulty printers.
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The main conclusion here, is that the reason 61% of the machines failed on election day was because the county used 100lb ballot paper, and a 20-inch ballot which placed excess stress on the Oki B432 printers, resulting in poor printer quality…
The report alleges that when you use a thicker paper, and a longer ballot, the printers have a hard time maintaining enough heat to bind the ink onto the paper. When printer quality is poor, the tabulators have a hard time reading the timing marks on the side of the ballot.
Things are definaelty happening in AZ still.
Last week Frontline covered the story of Jordan Conradson, a reporter with Gateway Pundit who was removed from covering the details of the election along with Bergquam and was awarded $175,000 by the Maricopa Board of Supervisors to avoid a much larger lawsuit over the denial of rights.
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Former Ohio Secretary Of State: Not All Legal Ballots Counted In Arizona

May 7, 2023​

By Corinne Murdock |

Link: https://azfreenews.com/2023/05/form...ate-not-all-legal-ballots-counted-in-arizona/

The former secretary of state of Ohio has come to the defense of embattled GOP candidate Abe Hamadeh, claiming that not all legal ballots were counted in the 2022 election.
Hamadeh shared the remarks from the former Ohio official: Ken Blackwell, who currently serves as Center For Election Integrity chair for the America First Policy Institute (AFPI). Blackwell disputed Maricopa County’s claim in their recent report that all legal ballots were counted. Blackwell further called out Gov. Katie Hobbs for her work as secretary of state, claiming that she purposefully overlooked significant discrepancies revealed by the recount.
“There is testimonial evidence of people who did not have their votes counted,” stated Blackwell. “And in a legal case brought by Arizona Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh, evidence shows that then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs knew the recount showed discrepancies and failed to disclose those relevant facts to the court in a timely manner before the court made its ruling. This failure to do so is either gross incompetence or a cover-up.”

Blackwell also criticized Maricopa County for not troubleshooting their printers well enough prior to Election Day.
“Common sense and basic competence would dictate election officials assess the capability of the printers BEFORE Election Day. They didn’t,” said Blackwell.
The Maricopa County report characterized the problematic printers as “old printers.” However, age wasn’t the issue, but the original intended functionality of those printers. By the county’s own admission, a certain model of printers were retrofitted to be ballot-on-demand (BOD) printers. These retrofitted printers, the “Oki” model, had a heat setting that printed the ballot markings either too lightly or in a speckled manner.

The outsourced county report recommended replacement of the Oki printers, as well as reverting to shorter and lighter-weigh ballot paper.
Maricopa County launched the investigation into the printer errors in January. Poll workers testified in November, following the Election Day fiasco, that election machines were having issues prior to Election Day. These testimonies conflicted with the county’s reporting that their stress testing prior to Election Day didn’t reveal either tabulator or printer issues.
In several weeks, Hamadeh will present oral arguments in the Mohave County Superior Court to challenge the validity of the 2022 election results. Hamadeh has challenged the exclusion of thousands of provisional votes from the final tally, hundreds of which he has said he can definitively say should have been counted. Last month, Hamadeh stated that he had over 250 affidavits from allegedly disenfranchised voters.

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