There’s been a pattern of lies coming straight from @azbethlewis over the past 3 months. Her claim of nearly 142,000 signatures was just the latest. After a weekend of hard work at the Secretary of State’s office, the petition count is final and it’s only 8175 total. 1/
Through public disclosure requests, we’ve sampled the petitions which average 10.2 signatures each, not the 13.9 claimed by @arizona_sos. Our estimate of their actual signature count is roughly 83,000, or less than 60% of what they claimed. 2/
Even if their 13.9 signatures per petition was correct, they’d have only 113,633 signatures. 5k less than required to put HB2853 to the ballot. Arizona voters truly have spoken, and they’ve rejected the disinformation peddled by @arizona_sos over the past 3 months. 3/
Congratulations to #Arizona kids and families - you can expect universal ESAs to be available to all in the very near future!! 4/4 #schoolchoice #educationfreedom @DeAngelisCorey
This was the final lie - which they put in writing for the Secretary of State’s office: 
In case I was unclear, there are 8175 petition FORMS with a maximum of 15 signatures each. @arizona_sos claimed to get 13.9 signatures per petition, which would fail to achieve the necessary signature count. Our analysis showed 10.2 per petition on average, far below their claim.
For those interested in more evidence, Christine’s tweet below explains why we are confident that 8175 is the final number.
https://twitter.com/arizonacatholic/status/1574255083193188352
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