On the first day of trial in Republican Kari Lake's election challenge her lawyers alleged small-bore problems that didn't appear to show the widespread, intentional misconduct she would need to prove.
Lake was among the most vocal 2022 Republicans promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign. While most of the other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake has not. Instead she is asking the judge to either declare her the winner or order a revote in Maricopa County.
In court on Wednesday, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said he didn’t do anything personally to sabotage the election and wasn’t aware of anyone purposefully interfering with the printers. “Absolutely not,” Richer said when asked about it.Scott Jarrett, one of Maricopa County’s elections directors, disputed the suggestion by one of Lake’s lawyers that the printer problems on Election Day represented a disruption in the election process.
A witness who examined ballots on behalf of the Lake campaign, Clay Parikh, said 14 ballots that he examined had a 19-inch image of the ballot printed on 20-inch paper, meaning the ballot wouldn’t be read by a tabulator. Parikh said someone changed those printer configurations.Tom Liddy, an attorney representing Maricopa County, suggested the images in question may have been slightly smaller as a result of a shrink-to-fit feature being selected on a printer.
In the document, the employee said county election workers didn’t include a key chain of custody document when delivering ballots from drop boxes on election night and that people working for the contractor are allowed to bring in their own ballots and those of their family members and give them to the sorting department.
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