- Title: Arizona Republican senate candidate Kari Lake casts an early vote
- Date: 10th October 2024
- Summary: SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 10, 2024) (Reuters) ARIZONA REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE KARI LAKE WALKING INTO AN EARLY VOTING CENTER TO CAST HER VOTE SUPPORTERS HOLDING 'KARI LAKE FOR U.S. SENATE SIGNS' KARI LAKE CAMPAIGN BUS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARIZONA REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE, KARI LAKE, SAYING: "It was a year ago today that we jumped into this race and
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- Keywords: ARIZONA EARLY VOTING ELECTION KARI LAKE REPUBLICAN SCOTTSDALE
- Location: SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES
- City: SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
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- Story Text: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, who has previously criticized early voting, cast her ballot early in Scottsdale, Arizona on Thursday (October 10).
Lake urged her supporters to vote early.
“We all saw what happened in past elections,” Lake said. “We don't want to take the risk of having one day that we show up to vote and things don't work.”
On Election Day in 2022, Maricopa County officials 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.
Lake, then the state's Republican gubernatorial candidate, seized on the machine problems, issuing a "voter alert" on her Twitter account. She has echoed Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud.
Standing outside an early voting center on Thursday, Lake also recommended voters drop off their ballots at an early voting center or drop box.
“Would you take $500 cash or $1,000 cash, put it in an envelope and put it through the postal service?” Lake said.
When asked about her previous stance on mail-in voting, Lake, 54, said she changed her mind because of the voting machine problems. She also added she didn’t want to watch the Democrats have a head start.
Lake, an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, is seeking the Republican nomination in the race to replace retiring U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat-turned-independent. The Arizona contest will play a key role in determining whether Democrats hold their narrow 51-49 Senate majority. A former local news anchor, Lake made an unsuccessful bid for Arizona governor two years ago.
Arizona, a swing state which narrowly went for Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, could also play a crucial role in this year's presidential election.
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