(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) Newly emerging evidence of vote fraud in several Arizona counties has fueled growing outrage among supporters of former President Donald Trump that could factor into the upcoming primary and general elections.
“Sophisticated” vote-fraud operations have been proven in at least two counties in Arizona, leading to speculation that fraudulently obtained and counted votes may have swung the November 2020 election in President Joe Biden’s favor, as well as potentially swinging the Senate by electing Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly.
The Associated Press reported that a Yuma County woman was convicted for illegally collecting early ballots in the 2020 primary election.
Guillermina Fuentes, 66, a former San Luis mayor and current school board member, pled guilty to “ballot abuse”—aka “ballot harvesting“—in a case brought by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.
According to a press release from Brnovich’s office, Fuentes admitted that she and another woman “knowingly collected ballots from another person, and those early ballots belonged to individuals for whom I am not a family member, household member, or caregiver.”
Fuentes used her status as a well-known local political to get voters to allow her to fill in ballots on their behalf.
“Fuentes used her position as a powerful figure in the heavily Mexican American community to get people to give her or others their ballots to return to the polls,” the AP reported.
Fuentes’ lawyer complained to the AP that “this prosecution shows that the law is part of ongoing anti-democratic, state-wide, and national voter suppression efforts.”
And the AP did its level best to do damage limitation in the aftermath of a proved case of 2020 election fraud, telling its readers that “there’s no sign she or anyone else in Yuma County collected ballots in the general election.”
JD Rucker, an editor at the Liberty Daily and several other conservative news sites, criticized the AP for its attempt to “bury the lede,” and suggested that Fuentes’ guilty plea can be taken as a sign of widespread Democratic fraud in 2020.
The AP did everything in their power to make this seem like a nothingburger.
It’s a bombshell they’ve hidden in plain sight, adding to the long list of evidence that the 2020 election was, indeed, stolen.@WendyRogersAZ @BarnettforAZ @DineshDSouza https://t.co/go9RSYoZ53
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) June 2, 2022
“The Associated Press did everything in their power to make this seem like a nothingburger,” Rucker wrote on his Substack.
“It’s a bombshell they’ve hidden in plain sight, adding to the long list of mounting evidence that the 2020 election was, indeed, stolen,” Rucker added. “From this one case alone we can extrapolate the extreme likelihood of voter fraud on a scale that could easily have stolen the state for Biden.”
In related news, the Epoch Times reported that at least 19,000 late ballots were illegally received and illegally counted in Maricopa County, Ariz. after Election Day.
The Epoch Times analyzed a Verity Vote report, which showed that according to “delivery receipts” kept by Maricopa County election officials, more than 20,000 ballots were received after the 7 p.m. deadline on Election Day, and that fewer than 1,000 were rejected as invalid.
The number is especially significant in light of the fact that Biden won Arizona by just over 10,000 votes.
News of confirmed voter fraud comes as Trump announced his endorsement of Tucson resident Blake Masters, who has publicly supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, for U.S. Senate.
In the announcement, Trump attacked Brnovich—who is also running for the GOP Senate nomination—over his inaction on voter fraud.
“Mark Brnovich is such a disappointment to me.” Trump wrote. “The Arizona State Senate gave him overwhelming evidence of fraud and irregularities, issued a report which was damning, and he did nothing about it.”
