Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer argued that the 'malinformation' his office had come across included '[a]buse of Arizona’s permissive public records process.'
“If they sit there and sign their names to this sham certification, history will never forgive them,” Kari Lake said of the Arizona officials charged with signing off on the state's gubernatorial election.
Kari Lake said her team ‘cannot allow an election like this to stand,’ arguing that ‘[w]hat they did on Election Day to punish election day voters is outrageous.’
Election officials in Arizona’s Cochise and Mohave counties are delaying vote certification after the state’s Republican attorney general ordered scandal-plagued Maricopa County to submit a full report on how it handled the election.
‘For two years I’ve been sounding the alarm about our broken election system here in Arizona, and this past week has confirmed everything we’ve been saying,’ Lake said.
Officials in the beleaguered Arizona county on Wednesday said 400,000 votes still needed to be counted as of that morning, ‘including a record number of early ballots that were dropped off on Election Day.’
Reports of voting machine breakdowns have triggered worry and brought back uncomfortable memories of the messy and contentious 2020 presidential election. Commentators and politicians are urging voters concerned about vote fraud to stay in line regardless of machine breakdowns or other problems.