Comments on: Maricopa County has issues again

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:50:32 +0000

Rasmussen: 48% of Maricopa election centers had printer or tabulator malfunctions on election day, not the previously estimated 20%. And no such widespread issues were reported during the early voting period that preceded election day and used the very same equipment. Wow.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:57:42 +0000

Post this on FB and get clucked into a prison like anyone else who has questions about the elections.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:52:42 +0000

For the record:

Direct eye-witness report. Adds some details to the now-common boiler-plate news articles.

https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/11/10/maricopa-county-election-judge-speaks-out/

In the contest between knavery and foolery, the knaves are winning.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:19:43 +0000

Trained monkeys would do better – more honest and more entertaining.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:11:02 +0000

Tucker leads with Maricopa tonight. When tabulation machines broke down, they dumped counted ballots in with uncounted ones. Nice, eh?
https://rumble.com/v1tfvp4-tucker-carlson-tonight-live-full-show-111122-midterms-2022-kari-lake-may-wi.html

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:37:23 +0000

Of all the counties in the entire country, the one which needed to be a combination of pure as the driven snow and humming like a $10k Swiss watch was Maricopa County.
What did it have going for it? A poison record from the last time around, all of whose suspicions were proven unfounded by hiding all the evidence.
The then Secretary of State, one of whose jobs is making sure of election efficiency and integrity failed, quite strategically, then. The then secretary of state is still the secretary of state and a failure of efficiency and integrity in Maricopa will make her governor. So in order to be elected governor and seem legitimate, she needed to make sure Maricopa county worked well.
Either she was too incompetent to do that, with a couple of years to get it fixed up–but will make a fine governor, or she is a crook again, but will make a fine governor.
It would have been to her advantage to have Maricopa functioning well so as to not cast doubt on the election she is overseeing when she is elected. Except perhaps then she wouldn’t have been elected.

Looks like another couple of years of “What are you going to do about it?”

By: Leland

Leland — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:38:39 +0000

Issues in Harris County: “At least 12 locations in Harris County are out of paper needed to print ballots. Some have been waiting for hours for paper and turning voters away.” For those who may not understand... In Harris County (maybe a Texas thing now), you are handed a sheet of a paper (two at my polling place, because of the number of races); you walk to a computer (not much different than the electric machines of the past) and make your choices which are then printed on the ballot. You then take your paper to another machine that scans and counts your ballot as it then drops into an actual ballot box. This gives a hard count of votes that can also be hand counted in a recount. However, you cannot count votes of ballots that never had paper to be cast. The county judge position was decided for the Democrat by 17,000 votes (1.5%). The early voting differential was 2,000 votes. Election day differential was 3,000 votes. And the mail in ballot differential was 12,000 votes.

By: Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:32:14 +0000

The reason it takes so long to count in Arizona is that a voter can request a mailed ballot, and instead of mailing it back, return it to a voting center. Republicans have been doing this a lot.

That ballot now has to have the signature compared with the original voter registration. This is what takes so long. Once the signature is verified, then the ballot goes into the pile to be counted.

When there are 3 million signatures to compare, it’s just going to take a long time.

The point of all this crap is to make voting “easier.” Many millions are spent on equipment that cannot be audited, and paying poll workers for many more hours and days. Sure, one can vote at any “voting center.” But to do that there must be a whole lot of expensive equipment all networked (and thus vulnerable to hacking).

Every time election officials get clever millions are wasted and voters have less confidence in the results.

By: Brian E

Brian E — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:17:12 +0000

Powerline has a letter from an Arizona attorney explaining why Arizona– specifically Maricopa County appears to be such a mess. Very instructive.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/whats-the-matter-with-arizona.php

By: elHombre

elHombre — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:05:32 +0000

Regardless of who wins, the integrity of Arizona elections has been compromised again by corrupt or incompetent Maricopa County officials. All involved, right up to Republican Supervisors, should be replaced ASAP.

If the Democrats don’t steal this election for Katie Hobbs, another Democrat mediocrity, it will only be because the notoriety of the delaying ploy has created fear of prosecution.