(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) MAGA warrior Kari Lake’s legal team in a court hearing Wednesday produced evidence and testimony that highlighted harrowing examples of election interference and voter disenfranchisement that occurred during Arizona’s tainted governor’s midterm election.
Lake filed a lawsuit challenging the controversial results, which saw Arizona’s incumbent Secretary of State Democrat Katie Hobbs certify her own victory in the governor’s race over the Republican Lake. The certification resulted from Hobbs’s office threatening county officials with arrest if they failed to obey Hobbs’s election directives.
In the first day of Lake’s election-challenge lawsuit, her attorneys said ballots that were produced as evidence and were cast in Maricopa County were not valid, specifically noting 48 of 113 ballots reviewed were “19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper,” a once-inch discrepancy that triggered “chaos on Election day,” and caused “the mass rejection of these votes as they were attempted to be read through the tabulators,” tweeted Kari Lake’s War Room trial coverage.
They printed Mutant Ballots on Election day–using a 19″ image on a 20″ ballot paper. That’s why the tabulators rejected the ballots and that’s why chaos ensued as Lake supporters flooded Voting Center to cast ballots.
Clowns & Crooks run our elections. #LakeTrial #Sabotage https://t.co/LrSvh6gDQq— Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 22, 2022
JUST IN: Kari Lake trial reveals 42.5% of ballots in their random samples were illegal ballots.
Things are about to get crazy…
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 21, 2022
“This is how they disenfranchised Maricopa County voters on Election Day,” tweeted Lake’s War Room. “The ballots were designed to be unable to be read through the machine. This wasn’t an error. It was malice. The process worked exactly as they intended it to.”
KARI LAKE TRIAL: AZ Co Elections Director – Scott Jarrett completely evades answering whether or not the 2022 AZ Midterm elections had obvious and documented disruptions
He argues voters still had other options pic.twitter.com/WDyd79DgKY
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 21, 2022
KARI LAKE TRIAL: Maricopa Election officials have admitted to using the wrong size Ballots on Election Day causing them to be rejected.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 21, 2022
Maricopa attorneys didn’t do much to help their own cause when questioning expert witnesses and officials who testified for Lake’s team. When a Republican attorney who oversaw the election travesty was challenged that “you have no personal knowledge as to whether these printing errors changed the outcome of the election, correct?”, Mark Sonnenklara delivered a stinging response.
“There’s only 17,000 votes, roughly, separating the two candidates for governor,” he said. “Based on what I saw on Election Day, I would say there’s no question in my mind that had there not been tabulator issues at 132 vote centers, this election would have resulted, would have ended up, with Kari Lake winning.”
It didn’t go any better when county officials tried to downplay or dismiss the serious problems that evidence revealed with chain-of-custody issues that wreaked havoc on any semblance of election integrity, and were disputed by elections forensic experts.
“Does anybody know when those ballots leaving the voting centers, how many are in the bins?”
“…No.”
This is a MAJOR problem!
Maricopa County Recorder admits chain of custody is totally meaningless, they can magically say how many ballots appear at central tabulation facility pic.twitter.com/WIJr7tS7Zx
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) December 21, 2022
KARI LAKE TRIAL: Heather Honey, Investigator and Supply Chain Expert with 30+ years experience testifies under oath that multiple witness election workers in Maricopa County claimed election workers were not following rules of chain of custody pic.twitter.com/WQvPfhx26c
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 21, 2022
The judge overseeing the hearing, which resumes Thursday, will decide whether Lake’s request is valid to either declare Lake the winner or order a revote in Maricopa County.
Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report
