Thread by @ALegalProcess

🚨@KariLake files to inspect the ballots in Maricopa County. Requests ballots:
➡️printed by Runbeck (contractor)
➡️printed by county's ballot-on-demand printers
➡️including spoiled ballots

Proposes random sampling from sites and segregated batches as selected by Lake

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer:
➡️25% of tabulators at Murphy School Center rejected ballots
➡️Tabulated ballots in "Box 3" commingled with untabulated ballots in same bag

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer:
➡️9-to-1 Rep voters in line on ED
➡️Many used "Box 3"
➡️Some frustrated by heat + delays, left w/o voting

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter
➡️Failed machines compels to move to other voting center
➡️Other center machines likewise malfunctioning
➡️Describes anxiety of not knowing if or by whom vote counted

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Roving Attorney:
➡️8 of 11 centers w/printer & tabulator failures
➡️Sees voter stuff 6 ballots into dropbox
➡️Sees voters w/o ID try to vote
➡️Wait times avg 45-60+ minutes

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer:
➡️Repeated tabulator failures thru-out day
➡️Workers errors mix tabulated w/untabulated ballots
➡️Inspector INSTRUCTS workers to put BOTH into a single black bag, commingling

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer:
➡️Inspector did not have e-pollbook data

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Tabulator failures force use of "box 3"
➡️County website shows "voted" that afternoon, despite using "box 3" so could not possibly be true
➡️County contacted, county confirms her vote still uncounted, says will be counted on next day

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Machine failures
➡️Told to use disability machine, but only 1 provided
➡️Voters leave w/o voting or checking out

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Tabulator failures
➡️Staff direct him to vote at another location
➡️Staff do not check him out of e-pollbook
[Unlikely this vote was counted per statute, despite statement from new center staff that vote was tabulated]

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Roving Attorney:
➡️7 of 10 voting centers w/machine malfunctions
➡️Voters w/wrong addresses and names are improperly given regular, not provisional ballots

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Roving Attorney:
➡️Multiple machine failures observed
➡️One location w/no functioning machines, directs voters to go to other voting center

Karri Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll worker-inspector:
➡️Machines failures immediately on opening
➡️Fed ballots 15-30x, tabulator still fails
➡️No county support via hotline
➡️Up to 275 people in line
➡️Changing paper weight did not solve problems

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Machine failures, so used mail-in ballot she happened to bring just in case
➡️Describes loss of voter trust in county administration of election
➡️"We aren't dumb"
➡️"I have zero faith"

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️"utter chaos"
➡️2.5+ hours process to cast ballot

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Rather than "spoil" ballot, a new ballot printed
➡️Resulted in multiple live ballots that could be voted
➡️Staff distributing "anonymous" ballots, but crowd of people rendered ID-check process unreliable
➡️"I could've voted three times."

Kari Lake | SIGNATURE VERIFICATION, Exhibit:
➡️Legal team points to 2020 signature verification irregularities, expects same in 2022
➡️Attaches 292 page exhibit of *sample* potentially erroneous verifications in 2020
➡️You decide, are these legit verifications?

Errata: TWO exhibits, one 292 pages, second 255 pages...total of 547 pages of potentially erroneous signature verifications in 2020

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Systemic failure of machines
➡️Poll worker fails to inform of check-out procedure if chose to go to second location
➡️Colleague's father attempts voting at 2d location, refused bc not checked out at 1st
➡️3 hours to cast vote

Kari Lake | Witness testimony, voter:
➡️Multiple poll staff fail to inform check-out req'd, just "spoil" ballot
➡️Given provisional ballot at 2d location
➡️County website indicates their ballot was not counted "because alternative election check-in, second ballot not counted"

Kari Lake | Witness testimony, poll worker:
➡️County equipment set-up NOT include testing tabulators with printouts
➡️Failures start w/1st voter
➡️System fails to print control slip w/ballot from same printer, chaos ensues
➡️E-pollbook erroneously rejects voters
➡️"overwhelmed"

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️10x attempts before tabulator accepted ballot
➡️"America is NOT a 3rd world country!"
➡️"This should NOT have happened to me or ANY American citizen."

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (7 pg declaration)
➡️hostile and unprofessional inspector tells frustrated voters to leave ballots "in her personal care"
➡️placed rejected ballots in "private drop box"
➡️assured voters - personally - they would counted
(1/2)

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (cont):
➡️Poll workers did not know check-out procedures
➡️Observer goes to 2d location to vote, but not checked out of 1st, given ballot and votes

[NOTE: this ballot not likely counted per statute]

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (cont)
➡️Exasperated Inspector tells voters "Do whatever you gotta do" with their spoiled ballot
➡️Fails to inform of checkout procedures
➡️"Many, many people" frustrated, suspect foul play

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer:
➡️"Box 3" ballots mislabeled "spoiled"
➡️Then re-labled "misreads"
➡️Put into black bag, not designated blue transport box

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Not checked out of 1st
➡️2d location gives provisional ballot

[Note - ARS 16-584(D): if information shows voter already voted, provisional vote will not be counted; failure to sign-out construed to mean you have already voted]

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Not informed checkout req'd
➡️Sees 1 man w/8 mail-in ballots
➡️"Box 3" ballots put in unsecured plastic tote
➡️3.5 hours to vote
➡️"My faith in the system is lost."

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll worker:
➡️2 hour wait
➡️Rejected ballots commingled w/tabulated ballots
➡️Inspector "jabbed" and "yelled" at her for directing voters to speak with him

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer:
➡️Returns from bathroom break
➡️Wrongfully refused entry by inspector
➡️Only Democrat observer remained

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Desert Advent Church Peoria - commingling rejected ballots with tabulated ballots
➡️Tagged "tabulated"

Kari Lake | Eyewitness Testimony, poll worker (Dream City Church)
➡️After grueling 16 hour day
➡️Collected tabulated ballots and commingled with rejected ballots into black bag, without realizing potential problem

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll worker (Mt View Elem School)
➡️Inspector fails to count "box 3" ballots before transport
➡️Falsely says not required, despite "official checklist" specifically requiring count of "box 3" ballots

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (Shepard of the Hills)
➡️Voters NOT informed to checkout if leaving
➡️Voters used "box 3" later report county website says ballot had been "counted"
➡️BUT poll worker, still on-site, says those ballots were still sitting in box 3.

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (Community Christ Church):
➡️Discovers tabulator with "red tape" and word "misreads" printed on it
➡️Other tabulator has "blue tape" but, when removed, shows red tape underneath and "misreads" printed.

????

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Election Judge (Ascension Lutheran)
➡️Sheriff called after 5 voters checkin and discover Maricopa Elections site has different names in their system associate w/their ID
➡️Sheriff confirms data is ONLY in election website, NOT in the DMV site

?

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, candidate (QC Library):
➡️Voters not checked-out, go to 2d location, told they "already voted"
➡️Multiple ballots printed for each voter
➡️Est. 300 people left in disgust, not voted

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (Dove of the Desert Church):
➡️After telling voters to find another location, inspector spoils ballots of those who left
➡️BUT does not check them out

[Note: renders their vote invalid per ARS 16-584(D)]

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter:
➡️Not instructed to checkout of 1st location
➡️2d location e-pollbook shows he already voted
➡️Used his mail-in ballot

[Note: ARS 16-584(D) likely to invalidate ballot?]

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (Sun Lakes Methodist)
➡️Voters not informed of option to checkout, go to 2d location
➡️"door 3" ballots commingled with tabulated ballots
➡️Workers erroneously pull SIM card from wrong slot in tabulator

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (Desert Hills Com Church)
➡️Observers in heavy Dem areas report no problems
➡️Inspector directors workers to mix misreads and tabulated ballots, commingled for both tabulators
➡️ Number of "bin 3" ballots rendered unknowable

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Roving Attorney:
➡️9 of 11 voting centers had printer/tabulation failures
➡️Voters that left w/o voting, return in evening but turned away because after 7PM

[Note: Recall Maricopa County opposed in court RNC's petition to extend polling hours]

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll observer (Worship and Word Church)
➡️Tabulated ballots commingled with "Door 3" untabulated ballots
➡️Inspector unable to give number of check-ins

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll worker (Mesquite Aquatic Center)
➡️After experimenting, discovers some ballots printed w/mysterious "white-speckled" bar code like pattern
➡️99% tabulator success rate if pattern blocked out w/blank ink
➡️A "specific, recurring pattern"

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll worker (Mesquite Aquatic Center)(cont)
➡️Voters not informed checkout req'd
➡️County website says "your ballot was counted" - even as voter was waiting in line and had not fed tabulator yet (‼️)
➡️As soon as printed, cty site says "counted"

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll worker (Mesquite Aquatic Center)(cont)
➡️"dreaded door #3" bin unsealed / unsecured all day
➡️No county support, just 1 tech visit, failure
➡️"a dereliction of duty"
➡️"massive failure of system" - poll workers not trained to handle

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll worker (Mesquite Aquatic Center)(cont):
➡️No time to cure sig verifications
➡️Recorders Office: if ballot printed, system says it counted
➡️Recorders Office: "assumes" if you use door #3, it is counted, no way to tell if adjudicated

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll judge (Oasis Co Church):
➡️Identifies "pin-prick white spots" on ballots
➡️100% success tabulation rate if white spots are blackened out

[NOTE: multiple reports of mysterious white markings on ballots that correlate to tabulation failure]

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter-cure volunteer:
➡️First call made to cure a ballot "belonged to a man who had died in 2001."
👀

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Maricopa Elections Troubleshooter (7 pg declaration):
➡️Worked Outlets at Athem, Standing Stone Co Church, and Desert Hills Co Church
➡️Misread situation "more serious than presented by the county"
➡️Est 20% all ballots rejected completed
1/n

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Maricopa Elections Troubleshooter:
➡️Tabulator "came misconfigured" to push tabulated ballots into "misread box"
➡️"At this point I realized the count was corrupted"
➡️"the entire vote center would need to be reticulated for a correct count"
2/n

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Maricopa Elections Troubleshooter:
➡️Although County blamed poll workers for "commingled ballots" ⤵️⤵️⤵️

County "told us to place the cast and misread ballots into black bags together"

3/n

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, Maricopa Elections Troubleshooter:
➡️"Shocking to me" that printed test ballots were not tested in the tabulators after setup
➡️Not part of the county procedures
4/end

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, poll clerk (1st United Methodist Gilbert)
➡️Discovers "little squares" or "white spots/blotches" on rejected ballots
➡️2 of 3 printers "intentionally set to print in 'draft mode,'" rendering ballots unusable
➡️Tech did "nothing" to fix printer

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, voter (Community of Christ Church, Mesa):
➡️"White specks" on printed ballots
➡️Machines would not read unless blacked out
➡️Given black markers to cover over
➡️Filed report with AG office

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, election judge (Grace Church Peoria)
➡️Inspector falsely tells voters that staff will count "box 3" ballots at end of day
➡️Tells witness "not complete true, but it was too complicated to tell the voters what will happen."
1/3

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, election judge (Grace Church Peoria)(cont):
➡️Inspector later commingles tabulated ballots with "box 3" untabulated "misread" ballots into black bag
➡️"those ballots will not be counted"
➡️"I am sick this happened under my watch"
2/3

Kari Lake | Eyewitness testimony, election judge (Grace Church Peoria)(cont):
➡️Contradicts Bill Gates public statements. "That simp[ly] was not true in my polling center."
➡️"I saw them being lied to by my supervisor..."
➡️"We had elderly people in line with walkers alone"
3/3