The vote counting in Maricopa County started off very slowly, but then quickly tapered off. But don’t blame the Maricopa County election officials. Let’s face it, there is no quick and easy way to fix an election. In Florida, they have 21 million voters and they were 99% complete on election night. Arizona has half that many voters and counting will take them at least a week. But, there is a good reason for that. Florida doesn’t have all the voting irregularities that they have in Maricopa County.
Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, for example, has condemned the slow process as “an embarrassment.” She has admitted that she has very little faith in fairness and honesty in the elections in Arizona and especially in Maricopa County. Election counts in Maricopa County are as transparent as six inches of lead. Maricopa County supervisor Bill Gates pushed back, indicating people who want timely counts are offensive to him.
Gates said:
“Quite frankly it’s offensive for Kari Lake to say that these people behind me are slow-rolling this when they’re working 14 to 18 hours. So I really hope this is the end of that now. We can be patient and respect the results when they come out.”
"Quite frankly, it is offensive for Kari Lake to say these people behind me are slow rolling this."
Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, is not very happy about some of the things being said about the elections department. pic.twitter.com/OoUpd4oyLf
— KTAR News 92.3 (@KTAR923) November 10, 2022
Gates says that vote counting will continue into next week unless Democrats lose, in which case they will continue counting until they do win.
In conjunction with the Republican Party of Arizona, the RNC released a statement saying this election “exposed deep flaws in Maricopa County’s election administration.” Arizona voters “deserve better — transparency, certainty, and efficiency — and most importantly, an accurate and prompt announcement of election results,” the statement added, threatening to take legal action to ensure the election outcome is lawfully decided.
Instead of publicly blasting Maricopa County, Gates — himself a Republican election lawyer — said the RNC should express their concerns directly.
“I would prefer that if there are concerns that they have, that they communicate those to us here. I’m a Republican. Three of my colleagues on the board are Republicans. Raise these issues with us and discuss them with us, as opposed to making these baseless claims,” he said.
“They’re hyping up the rhetoric here, which is exactly what we don’t need to do,” Gates added.
Responding to concerns over the delay ballot counting, Gates said Arizona law is to blame and, on average, it takes between 10 to 12 days to count all ballots in Maricopa County, the second-largest voting precinct in America.
Gates estimated there are 275,000 ballots left to count in Maricopa County.
You could see this coming from miles off. After getting off scot-free in 2020, you just had to know they were going to repeat the process in 2022.
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In 2020, RINO’s let The Steal happen because they didnt like Trump- he wasn’t politiciany enough for them. They thought the dems would be happy with that and wouldnt attempt to steal any more elections! But the idiot rino’s gave the dems permission to steal every election from now on, and they will. I have heard very few mentions of voter fraud this time, even though we know it is happening, because they are afraid of being labeled as ‘election deniers’. I dont deny the elections, but I certainly deny the results they are giving us!! They could have fought back in 2020, and given us secure elections that we could believe in, but they didnt, and our Republic is toast!
All of my voting years, most of them in Arizona (I am 71 years old), the election results were back by the 10:00 pm news. This new nonsense of waiting days and days to get the results of the election started in 2016. It’s new, and it’s complete donkey excrement. Kari Lake is 100% correct. This leftist crap needs to be dismanteled immediately! It only exists to perpetuate the cheat.
I watched Ike’s 1st term return, & had school the next morning, but was in bed shortly after midnight with the election called already. I was on LI, NY at the time, & CA polls closed at 1900 PST. They’d counted enoughof the nation by that time to know it was his win.
They need to do a deep audit on that rigged election NEV. also itys B.S. democrats always win in the middle of the night.
I understand why it’s taking so long. First, they have to determine how many votes were cast, then, how many were cast for each candidate. That takes about 2 hours.
Then, they have to determine how many votesare needed to push the democrats over the top, which takes maybe 5 minutes.
Finall, there’s a grueling, several day process of creating the necessary ballots to achieve the desired results.
Now you know.
2 elections in a row that Maricopa County has screwed up. They deserve all the criticism that they get. You think they would have learned after the 2020 debacle but no, after all they are Democrats. I am disgusted to have lived in Maricopa at one time but I got smart and moved out of there and that was way before the current state of affairs there.
They are going slow because they are behind. They need time to figure out how many fake ballots they need to win.
Exactly!
Third world official insulted by being identified as third world official
He’s the insult; none of us is that dumb!
The so called Officials need to be fired, but the democrat party citizen seem to love having all government functions run as horribly as possible!
Hey, it takes time to create that many Emergency Ballots!
Real Republicans are offended by you.
Democrats have always had trouble with comprehending numbers.