'Don't let those cheaters and crooks put doubt on you' -Lake seizes on voting machine problems

Record ID: 1696826

  • Title: 'Don't let those cheaters and crooks put doubt on you' -Lake seizes on voting machine problems
  • Date: 9th November 2022
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  • Embargoed: 23rd November 2022 05:45
  • Keywords: 2022 Arizona Governor Kari Lake Midterms election fraud electronic vote-counting machines
  • Location: SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES
  • City: SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Government/Politics,United States,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001801809112022RP1
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  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS WHITE FLASHES BETWEEN SHOTS
    Problems with dozens of electronic vote-counting machines in the battleground state of Arizona on Tuesday (November 8) were seized upon by the state's Republican gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, as she took to the stage at her election night party in Scottsdale.
    We had a big day today. And don't let those cheaters and crooks think anything different. Don't let them doubt. Don't let them put doubt in you," she told cheering supporters. "If we have to fight through the B.S. and the garbage, then we will fight through the B.S. and the garbage,” the former news anchor added.
    Former President Donald Trump and his followers had earlier in the day falsely claimed it was evidence of election fraud by Democrats.
    Lake has echoed Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud.
    Just a few hours into Election Day, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told reporters that about 20% of electronic vote tabulation machines in the state's most populous county were malfunctioning, and technicians were being deployed to fix them.
    The problem was that ballots were not lining up properly inside the machines and were not being read, Richer said, adding that despite the problems all votes would be counted. Richer called the malfunctions "disappointing" and correctly predicted that election deniers such as Trump would "exploit" the issue.
    Trump, Lake and others have been calling for Election Day-only voting and for the end of electronic voting machines, promoting instead the use of just paper ballots and hand counts a process that is time-consuming, costly and far less accurate than machine counting.
    (Production: Liliana Salgado, Temis Tormo)
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