Christina Bobb, an attorney for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, has reported that hundreds of thousands of votes had been “illegally inserted” into the recent Maricopa County, Arizona midterm election tally.
“You have a whistleblower from Runbeck the ballot company, that said approximately 300,000 ballots were illegally inserted into the tally,” Bobb said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast on Friday. “Not coming from drop boxes, not coming from polling locations, but just being brought in by employees.” Runbeck is an election services company used in Arizona’s midterm elections.
Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed a lawsuit on Friday taking aim at various discrepancies in Arizona’s voting system. From The Western Journal:
The brief states that on Nov. 9 the Maricopa County recorder announced after the county’s voter center closed for the day there were “275,000+” mail-in ballots (referred to as EV ballots in the filing) that had been sorted for scanning and signature verification. However, the next day Maricopa County election official Celia Nabor contacted the county’s contractor Runbeck Election Services, and the company said it scanned 298,000 ballots, according to Lake’s court filing. “This unexplained increase in EV ballots was also reflected on the Department of State website between November 9 and November 10. On November 9th, Maricopa County reported to the AZ Department of State that it had counted 1,136,849 ballots and had 407,664 ballots left to be tabulated. That is a total of 1,544,513 ballots,” Lake’s lawyers said.
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Meanwhile, Lake has received partial approval for her request to inspect randomly selected ballots from the midterm election in an effort to challenge the results, The Washington Times reports.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson granted three of the four demands outlined in Lake’s 70-page lawsuit against top state election officials, in which she alleges that there were thousands of illegal votes and “violations” within the election process that resulted in a victory for her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs.
Lake’s campaign tweeted, “Our lawsuit isn’t based on conspiracy or wild speculation. We have laid out a very clear theory about statutory violations and a broken chain of custody. These ballots deserve close scrutiny and we’re delighted we have been granted it.”
As part of the ruling, a representative chosen by Lake’s team will be allowed to inspect 50 random ballots cast on Election Day from six polling stations in Maricopa County, as well as 50 random early ballots from six separate batches and 50 random “spoiled” ballots from six stations in the county.
However, the inspector will not be permitted to copy or photograph the ballots during the examination, which is scheduled to take place at 8 a.m. on December 20.
