Posted on 09/23/2023 6:31:02 AM PDT by CFW
Former GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s public records trial against Maricopa County over ballot affidavit envelopes has begun with a focus on voter privacy and will continue next week.
On Thursday, Lake was in the courtroom for her two-day trial before Judge John Hannah of the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, regarding a public records request Lake filed under Arizona's Public Records law.
In March, Lake submitted a public records request of ballot affidavit envelopes from the 2022 general election, but the Maricopa County’s Recorders Office denied her request in April.
Lake wants to review the envelopes, which voters write their signatures on when casting mail-in ballots, to determine if the signatures match voters’ signatures that are on file with the county.
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Lake's attorney, Bryan Blehm argued in his opening statement on Thursday that the envelope “signatures are made public, your honor, by the person who signed them and dropped them into the mail. They’re dropped into the public stream of commerce and hence, we argue, that the state cannot overcome its interests of the state argument because the individuals who signed these ballot affidavit envelopes, your honor, have waived any right to confidentiality by making those signatures public.”
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She appealed the rejection of her lawsuit by U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi in August 2022, who said it had "conjectural allegations of potential injuries," according to AZ Central. It is unclear when a decision in the Ninth Circuit appellate case will be delivered.
Lake's public Records trial will resume on Monday at 9 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, or noon Eastern Daylight Time. Hannah said that the court will reconvene with hearing Maricopa County’s witnesses and closing arguments from both sides.
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It would be reasonable to say that you would have to prove that votes spoiled by a MISTAKE would have to amount to enough to change the outcome, but applying this standard to proven fraud is a straw man argument.
Fraud vitiates everything.
If the other side is proven to have cheated, then it doesn’t matter how many votes they stole, they are disqualified. Would a professor accept a paper and simply give it a lower grade if plagerism were found if they couldn’t prove the entire paper was plagerized? Would you pass a final exam if your teacher only saw you cheating on a few questions?
There is a ton of proof in many states that ballots were manufactured, miscounted, mishandled, and dumped by the handsful by people not authorized to do so and not following proper procedure and often with no chain of custody at all. Only one side benefited from this, so there is no question for whom the fraud was committed.
Anyone with any sense of decency would step down if they found out someone committed fraud on their behalf, even if they weren’t aware of it. Biden was aware and complicit. The entire Democrat leadership is complicit. They should all be in jail at the very least.
P.S. So you admit to the racism, then?
Love,
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The issue is signatures, and signature matching. Not matching votes to persons, which can’t happen.
Republicans were running the county where all the shenanigans took place. The GOP is not a real party, it's a subsidiary of the uniparty ever since George Bush made it so, and it only exists to provide the illusion that there are two sides.
The Trump era totally exposed the masquerade to anyone with eyes and they really don't care anymore since they've gotten away with all of it. They barely pretend now.
The issue is overcoming 17000 votes.
Exactly, well said. I want it all exposed. So tired of people not wanting to know how the fraud is done. Of course, once known, the Dems will devise another way to cheat and steal elections.
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