Arizona Senator and election denier Wendy Rogers is terrified that ballot tabulator machines might actually count votes. Arizona Republicans Are Pushing for Ballot Tabulator Rules Based on a Conspiracy Theory https://factkeepers.com/arizona-rep...tabulator-rules-based-on-a-conspiracy-theory/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hired-election-fraud-arizona-120616406.html Trump hired me to find election fraud in Arizona. Here's what I found instead Ken Block Thu, February 29, 2024 at 1:06 PM GMT+1·4 min read The baseless cries of voter fraud by failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake weren’t just a redundant mimicry of former President Donald Trump’s claims that voter fraud cost him the 2020 election in Arizona. They are aspersions that are easily proven as false. It amazes me that the most straightforward explanations for Trump’s loss are overlooked. After recounts, audits and even the Cyber Ninjas, no one has brought forward a credible and provable claim of massive voter fraud in Arizona. And let’s be clear: There is no evidence that Arizona election officials certified the wrong winner in 2020 or 2022, even with the races being as close as they were. Trump lost by less than 11,000 votes. I should know. I’m the man the Trump campaign hired to find those fraudulent votes. I only found a handful of fraudulent votes The day after the election, I was asked to look for dead and duplicate voters for every mail ballot cast in each of the swing states in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I found fewer than 200 duplicate mail-in ballot votes fraudulently cast from all of the swing states combined. The Trump campaign chose not to do anything with these fraudulent votes to avoid calling attention to the small amount of provable fraud my team and I had uncovered, including about a dozen so votes in Arizona. What are these straightforward explanations as to why Trump lost? Let’s start with one of the most easily provable reasons: In 2020, voters cast more than 51,000 votes for the Libertarian candidate, Jo Jorgensen. Jorgensen’s vote count was five times the margin of President Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona. Had Trump convinced 11,000 Libertarians to abandon their party and vote for him, he could have won. Also, the Green Party’s candidate in 2016 won more than 34,000 votes, while in 2020, they took less than 2,000. Trump simply underperformed in Arizona Another astonishing and undeniable trend emerged when I compared the 2016 and 2020 election results. In most of Arizona’s counties, Trump’s share of the vote declined in 2020 relative to 2016. That includes what I define as red counties because Trump won there in 2016 and 2020. A majority of Arizona’s 10 red counties saw a drop in Trump’s vote share in 2020. Exceptions were Yuma County and the state’s smallest red counties — Gila, Graham and Greenlee — where Trump cleaned up in 2020. Trump’s underperformance meant that he lost more than 8,500 votes in 2020 in Arizona’s red counties alone — a fact that argues strongly against the voter fraud narrative. It would be counterproductive to do anything that would endanger your own candidate. A damage control expert's: Advice for Kari Lake Those 8,500 votes that Trump lost are easily explained. He told moderate Republicans to take a hike, and those lost votes confirm that these voters did as they were told. How can a candidate so concerned about a few thousand imaginarily fraudulent votes be so cavalier about losing the support of millions of likely voters across the country? Trump’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, documented this loss of moderate GOP support in a December 2020 report detailing exit polling results across the swing states commissioned by the Trump campaign. Politico.com obtained this internal campaign document and has it on its website. Why don't more conservatives know this truth? Additionally, researchers have identified more votes than the margin of loss for both Lake and Trump, where voters chose down-ticket Republicans but left the presidential or gubernatorial race blank or voted for the Democrat. How is it possible that Kimberly Yee, a moderate Republican, won 100,000 more votes in her race for treasurer than Kari Lake did for governor in 2022? Of critical concern to hard-core conservatives, Trump did 5% less well in Maricopa County in 2020 than he did in 2016, while Yee won Maricopa County by 11% in 2022. Republicans can still win Arizona elections — if they have broad-based appeal. The passion and certainty of so many Americans that election fraud was behind Trump’s loss has turned into a mania. Some of the most intelligent people I know are convinced, without a shred of objective evidence, that the election was stolen. Why don’t more people know the truth? Conservatives mainly get their news from conservative media. Coverage of my story about working for the Trump campaign and the subpoenas I have received garnered mention in just one conservative outlet for an entire year. Facts are only helpful if people are made aware of them. Voter fraud did not cause Trump’s 2020 Arizona election loss. I know because I have done the work. Ken Block owns Simpatico Software Systems and is the author of “Disproven – My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data That Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections.” Share your thoughts at feedback@disproven.com; on X, formerly Twitter: @KenBlockRI. This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Trump hired me to find election fraud. Here's what I found instead
'I'd like to report a murder': Arizona elections official blows up voter fraud claim https://www.rawstory.com/trump-elections-fraud-richer/ Election fraud challenge accepted! A member of the political nonprofit Turning Point Action tried to publicly tar Stephen Richer, who is Maricopa County Recorder, by accusing the office of intentionally duplicating a mail-in ballot as a way to juice votes. "Maricopa county at its finest… My first time ever voting in a presidential preference election and I received not one but two mail-in ballots," Aubrey Savela captioned above a photo of her ballots with some of her personal information redacted in a post. She then name checked Richer: "Thank you @stephen_richer." Richer, who famously sued Kari Lake for defamation, again didn't flinch. He tweeted directly to her to explain how Savela updated her voter registration on Feb. 20 from a Chandler address to her new Tempe address. "Because early ballots must go out on Feb. 21, your Chandler ballot was already set to go out, and so it did," he writes. "Then we sent out a new ballot to your Tempe address when we processed your voter registration modification." "That's why you had to redact out different lengths in the address (because they were sent to different addresses)." He then detailed out how each of the ballots possesses different "packet codes" distinguishing them and that the former one marked with "01" code "is dead" — rendering it worthless and would be uncounted if sent back. "Meaning even if you sent it back, it wouldn't proceed to signature verification, and it wouldn't be opened," Richer explained. "That's how we prevent people from voting twice." He then encouraged her to send the ballot marked "02" as "that's the only one that will work." "Hope this helps," his tweet reads. "Have a great night! Happy voting!"
So sad. Did these idiots actually think Trump was going to pay for their lawyers? LOL Republicans Charged in Fake Electors Plot Can't Afford Lawyers https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-fake-electors-republicans-lawyer-2020-election-1903239
The fallout continues from the fabricated election fraud nonsense put forward by MAGA GOPers. Telling the court that an obvious lie is a "fact" should lead to lengthy suspensions of law licenses as this idiot divorce attorney found out. Obviously this clown Blehm does not take responsibility for his actions either. Oh well, FAFO. Kari Lake's attorney just got busted by the AZ Supreme Court https://www.alternet.org/kari-lake-s-attorney-just-got-busted-by-the-supreme-court/ Bryan Blehm, a Scottsdale divorce attorney who represented failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in her bid to overturn her 2022 defeat and lied to the state Supreme Court on her behalf, has been suspended from practicing law in Arizona for two months. On Friday, an Arizona Supreme Court panel ruled that Blehm’s law license will be suspended for 60 days, beginning in a month. Once that term has ended and his license has been reinstated, Blehm will be placed on probation for one year and he will be required to complete five additional hours of continuing legal education in the area of ethics or professional responsibility. The Arizona State Bar launched the disciplinary case against Blehm and sought a suspension of six months and one day as punishment for Blehm’s role in lying to the Arizona Supreme Court. In an appeal of Lake’s dismissed attempt to nullify her election loss, Blehm and Washington, D.C., employment attorney Kurt Olsen falsely stated that it was “undisputed fact” that 35,000 illegal ballots were included in Maricopa County’s final vote count. No evidence of that claim was provided and the two were later ordered to pay $2,000 in sanctions by the state supreme court. Suspensions longer than six months require a lawyer seeking to resume practicing law to undergo an evidentiary hearing and make their case for reinstatement. In a May 21 hearing, attorneys for the Bar told Presiding Disciplinary Judge Margaret Downie that the suspension length was warranted because Blehm submitted blatantly false evidence to the court and has so far failed to show any remorse for doing so. A day before his disciplinary hearing, Blehm claimed he was found “guilty without a trial,” in a post on social media site X, formerly Twitter, and on the day of the hearing he failed to show up. In its 12-page order, the panel acknowledged that Blehm had violated ethical rules by submitting false statements and jeopardized the reputation of the entire legal process. “Respondent’s misrepresentations needlessly expanded the proceedings in the Arizona Supreme Court. And any time an attorney attempts to mislead a judicial tribunal, it brings disrepute to and fosters mistrust of the legal profession,” reads the order. But the panel ultimately concluded that approving a suspension longer than six months was unfair, given that Blehm has no previous ethical violations. And, the order notes, the false statements advanced by Blehm and Olsen were easily identified by the state supreme court, minimizing the harm they caused. “Is a long-term suspension necessary here to protect the public, maintain the integrity of the profession in the eyes of the public, and deter (Blehm) and other attorneys from engaging in similar misconduct?” asked the panel. “This is (Blehm’s) first disciplinary offense, and the misrepresentations at issue were so blatantly obvious there was little chance the Arizona Supreme Court would be misled by them.” The order noted, however, that future ethical misconduct from Blehm may be met with harsher punishments. Blehm will also be required to reimburse the State Bar’s legal costs. Neither the State Bar nor Blehm responded to requests for comment. Olsen, meanwhile, still faces two separate disciplinary hearings scheduled later this month for making false statements in a lawsuit concerning electronic tabulators and in Lake’s election challenges. But, because Olsen is licensed to practice law in Maryland and not Arizona, the highest punishment the State Bar can win in either case is a formal reprimand.
Let's see what the MAGA GOPers are up to in Arizona. Shock Video Shows Arizona GOP Official Threatening to ‘Lynch’ Election Officer Who Said 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen https://www.mediaite.com/politics/s...-officer-who-said-2020-election-wasnt-stolen/
Let's see what Jan Brewer, former right-wing GOP Governor of Arizona has to say. Oh, basically the Arizona GOP has gone f@cking nuts denying election results. ‘The claims are just outrageous’: Republican ex-governor condemns Arizona election lies Jan Brewer has had it with election denialism – and she’s speaking out to defend poll workers across the political divide https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/05/arizona-election-denialism-jan-brewer