Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct)
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Help me Obi Wan Kenobi.
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Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now.
We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country.
This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out...
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@aubrey_savela
@TPAction_
Hi Aubrey!
Thanks for reaching out.
You changed your voter registration on the last day of voter registration (Feb. 20) from your Chandler address to your new Tempe address.
Because early ballots must go out on Feb. 21, your Chandler ballot was already set to go out, and…
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I'm suing Kari Lake.
I'd hoped the defamation would stop after the election. I waited.
I'd hoped it would stop after the first election trial. I waited.
I'd hoped it would stop after the appeal. I waited.
I'd hoped it would stop after the second trial. I waited.
I'd…
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@aubrey_savela
@TPAction_
Hi Aubrey!
Your city -- and actually even your exact address -- is public record as a registered voter. You can even request the whole voter file (as your employer regularly does for political walk lists).
If you'd like, you can call or email my office if you want our…
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Hi Elon!
The post you're quote-tweeting seems to suggest that, based on Social Security Administration data, 220,731 illegal immigrants have registered to vote in Arizona since January 1, 2024.
A few things if I may be so bold (since I have easy access to Maricopa County's data…
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@Leo4AzHouse
here's a great example of a plain-as-day lie that will lead our Arizona residents to think the Maricopa County database has been entirely deleted. Help me call out this lie.
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Because that's what she requested when she filled out her form on January 23, 2021. You can email us any additional questions at "voterinfo
@risc
.maricopa.gov"
Thanks!
(I responded publicly because I assume you wanted it to be public by posting rather than emailing).
Why would Maricopa County send our daughter’s ballot to our house in Mohave County instead of to her house in Maricopa County? She’s given her correct address to them multiple times...🤔
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It was a lie. It was always a lie.
She did it to get your $25.
Or to fire you up.
But it was all a lie.
There were no "300,000 fraudulent early ballots" etc.
She defamed me.
But she also lied to you.
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@SiSoyLatina
@Garrett_Archer
@aubrey_savela
@TPAction_
I accept. But I’d do it nicely.
“Dear Sir,
Please see the attached itemized list of 47 reasons why, to quote one of the great American poets, ‘doesn’t mean I’m lonely, when I’m alone… just me, myself, and I.”
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Hi Amy!
I'm happy to address ballot harvesting again.
I did it A LOT when 2,000 Mules theory was popular (Remember that one? It turns out the real fraud in that one was the former convicted felon filmmaker D'Souza (who could have guessed?!) and the fly-by-night snake oil…
@VorAbaddon
@stephen_richer
@Jnet_margarita
I will add that I don't believe that anyone has asked good questions about ballot harvesting. Seems ripe for fraud. But I don't think anyone truly wants to deal with that issue, including Richer.
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This guy pled guilty today.
This was the gem who said he wants to kill my kids and “I want to throw that Jew in an oven so badly, I can taste it.”
Thanks to some law enforcement (DOJ/FBI) while other law enforcement (AZAG) fomented such threats.
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Complete and total surrender on liability.
Meaning it was always all B.S.
And she just entered that into court.
Now on to damages.
BREAKING: AZ senate candidate Kari Lake is requesting default judgement in the lawsuit filed against her by fellow republican
@stephen_richer
. She is requesting a jury to decide damages.
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If you have an election question...
Call me, maybe?
(or email: voterinfo
@risc
.maricopa.gov)
(Instead of just jumping to the wrong conclusion and spreading inaccurate information)
Thx!!
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Complete and total surrender by
@KariLake
.
Kari: You lied. You just accepted liability.
You will now have a judgment entered, in court, against you, for lying about our elections and me. It was all B.S.
Now on to damages.
The political elite will do anything to hold onto power and STOP outsiders like me– they’ve resorted to filing a ludicrous defamation lawsuit to try to stop me and bleed me dry.
Taking part in this lawfare just legitimizes it
Instead, I will continue to focus on the issues…
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Locations where people have been arrested in recent months for threats/actions to me, the Board of Supervisors, and other county personnel:
- Phoenix, Arizona
- San Diego, California
- Tecumseh, Missouri
- Lubbock, Texas
- Cullman, Alabama
- Hiawatha, Iowa
Words matter.
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@ScottAdamsSays
Hi Scott!
Big fan of your work (minus the racist stuff of course).
No election is perfect. And no election administrator would ever claim a perfect election.
But U.S. elections are actually designed to auditable; they must be reconciled; and they must be tested.
For example,…
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@SidneyPowell1
lol. Of course you post this well after it’s been explained / debunked.
Genuinely curious; are you?
1) too lazy to do 5 minutes of research?
2) too dumb?
3) too immoral?
4) too invested?
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@simonateba
Gotta love it when the current nominee is not supported by:
- the 2016/20 VP nominee
- the 2012 nominee
- the 2012 VP nominee
- the 2008 nominee’s family
- the 2000/2004 nominee
- the 2000/2004 vp nominee
And you ask what is wrong with all of those people, and not what is…
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Good question
@Jnet_margarita
!
1) The image in the original post is of signatures on a candidate petition sheet, not on return ballot affidavit envelopes
2) Arizona law makes signatures on candidate petition sheets public records. Conversely, Arizona law prohibits public…
Hey .
@stephen_richer
since this was posted then can we now see the envelopes?
🤔 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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@aubrey_savela
@TPAction_
Come for the exclamation points, stay for the reelect donation.
Thx!!!
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"Never Surrender!"
...
Lose on motions to dismiss.
...
"Never Surrender!"
...
Lose on appeals of motions to dismiss
...
*Face trial*
...
"Ok, ok, surrender!"
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Another one. Two in a week.
Again, this is the completely foreseeable consequence of "leaders" lying about elections being stolen.
And yet, it's those who work in elections, and the gullible losers like this guy (who will now spend time in prison) who are left with the…
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Words matter.
Anyone who followed any of the court cases, anyone who paid any attention to the news, anyone who knew even a smidge about how elections work, should have known these HIGHLY SPECIFIC, easily falsifiable, claims were, in fact, false.
And those false claims --…
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"Lake lost 'all rights to litigate the merit' of an ongoing defamation case ... In a Thursday morning minute entry, Judge Jay Adleman gave attorneys in the case until late April to determine a schedule for 'damages-related discovery'"
Yup.
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I agree with this as a matter of public policy. And so too do most Arizonans.
But let’s be clear about where we’re at currently.
1) it’s illegal in all 50 states to vote in the upcoming election if not a U.S. citizen
2) 99%+ of registered Arizonans have provided documented…
Johnson: We will introduce legislation to require every single person who registers to vote in a federal election must prove that they are an American citizen first. You have to prove it
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Always so confused when (many) people ask "what's your political calculation?" I can't wrap my head around that way of thinking. There is NO political calculation. My actions aren't premised on some poll. They are premised on telling the truth and not defaming good people.
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I’m moooved?
I’m udderly flattered?
🐮🙂😊
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Arizona is the ONLY state with ANY proof of citizenship requirement.
Arizona clearly states that no proof of citizenship is required for federal elections
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The Arizona State Bar dismissed an ethics charge against me this morning...
My alleged offense: Sitting on the board of an elections group. Seriously, that's it.
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Keep digging. By all means.
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We’re ready, and have been ready for some months, to start discovery.
Lotta documents, recordings, etc we’d like to look at.
And depositions… we’re gonna need a bigger boat…
BREAKING OOPS: After Supreme Court Rejection,
@KariLake
Defaults To
@Stephen_Richer
In Defamation Suit (Arizona's Law Shorts)
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We have a talented, big team -- over 15 attorneys, with some of the best backgrounds, representing some of the best firms in the country.
And we have a strong, strong case.
And we have very, very large verdicts in similar cases.
We can/will go the distance if we need to.
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@realLizUSA
Hi Liz!
That receipt of delivery sheet is between Maricopa County and Runbeck Election Services, which is why it says "RES" under the employee signature.
These are NOT pickups from USPS.
Rather, these are early ballots dropped off at voting locations on Election Day. Then,…
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" 'It is now official that she accepts that all of that is a lie,' [Richer] told Capitol Media Services."
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Page 10 of the indictment.
Rusty Bowers, and his team, will be remembered by history as some the unsung heroes of our time.
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We’re at the federal courthouse every Friday to welcome in our new U.S. citizens who are now eligible to vote.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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@Cernovich
Yeah. It never happened. And that was confirmed by 3 independent technology companies in a report produced by former U.S. Representative John Shaddegg.
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The ONE person in the audit with ANY previous high-level involvement with election administration has now been kicked out. Why? Because the new ballot count matched Maricopa County's numbers, not the Ninjas'. The adult has left the room
@BennettArizona
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And now we proceed to discovery. And then trial.
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@tcani
Yes. She is conceding that she made false statements defaming me.
She is conceding that it was all B.S.
She is conceding liability.
Now we just talk damages.
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@PamKirby
@aubrey_savela
@TPAction_
System just automatically deactivate any earlier packets for that voter profile. So if she spilled coffee and requested a new one, as soon as “03” is triggered, “02” wouldn’t be able to be scanned in upon return.
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From the entire editorial board:
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Mohave County recently posted the results of its hand count tabulation experiment.
They counted 850 ballots with an average of 36 races per ballot. (30,600 contests).
They estimated that it would cost the county an additional $1.14 million to hand count races in 2024 as…
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And there it is. A lifetime of service immediately discarded because he followed the law and didn’t give the new mob what they wanted.
Judge Thompson was appointed to the bench by Gov Brewer in 2010.
He has been a judge for 13 years with no issues or problems — actually the…
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Hi
@Leo4AzHouse
! We’ll happily set up an account to respond to those emails. We’ll apologize that most of concerns stem from lies from TV stations who have to had recant (Eg Newsmax) or individuals who have later said that no reasonable individuals should have believed (Powell)
How about I send you the 1k emails I receive per day from Arizona constituents asking me to look into our elections. Your continued obstruction of this audit is what will do lasting damage. This is exactly why voters don't trust politicians.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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Yup. Still have them.
But before we hear your drivel
@KariLake
about signature verification, the Supreme Court first wants to discuss sanctioning you for your inaccurate statements about the trial court record.
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1) Stop crazy, baseless accusations
2) All premised on a lie
3) Only Stop The Steal will believe the Ninjas
4) Party of individual responsibility continues to blame anyone, anything, but ourselves for loss
5) Depress GOP turnout just like Georgia runoff
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🧵Hi Mark.
- ballots must have the appropriate formatting and security marks to be read by tabulator
- ballots be returned in a signed affidavit envelope. We don't accept loose ballots
- Affidavit envelopes have unique bar code that links to voter profile
Cont.
.
@stephen_richer
,
@PimaRecorder
what are you doing to secure our votes at these drop boxes?
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Yesterday's hand count audit matched the machine count perfectly -- 100%.
Thanks to
@MaricopaGOP
and
@MaricopaDems
for providing the personnel to perform the bipartisan hand count.
HAND COUNT THE BALLOTS!
Well, we actually do hand counts.
Right now, Saturday, designees from the Republican and Democratic parties are working in bipartisan pairs to hand count audit randomly selected ballots from the Presidential Preference Election.
You can watch them on…
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Just handed down:
Complete victory for the county in the umpteenth Hamadeh lawsuit (this one with Mast/Crosby).
-- Mast and Crosby have no standing; their claims are dismissed.
-- Hamadeh’s claim against Maricopa County defendants’ signature verification procedure is…
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(P.S. I’m a long time Republican).
@stephen_richer
@SaltyCracker9
Your name will be remembered, that’s for sure… unfortunately (for you) it will only be remembered as the shitbag Democrat that screwed up the AZ election. You will be forgotten within a few years
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We receive scores of positive messages daily. We’re grateful.
But if interested in the dark side of election admin in Maricopa County, here’s a thorough look.
“You will all be executed,” said one. “Wire around their limbs and tied & dragged by a car,”
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Don’t forget the part of the lawsuit alleging that Arizona doesn’t use paper ballots (we do and have for a long, long time).
Also, gotta love when people think an appeal is where you enter “dramatic new information.”
🥱🥱🥱
The Kari Lake/Mark Finchem ‘22 case against machines is being appealed to SCOTUS this Friday.
There is dramatic new information.
The Enigma surrendered her secrets.
(retweet)
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Over 23,000 people have already checked in in person and successfully voted.
We have tabulator issues at a few locations, but the backup plan allows those votes to still be tabulated.
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My letter, of sorts, to my beloved Party (GOP) on the Ninja audit and the November 2020 election.
"Dear Arizona Republicans..."
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17 out of 30 senators (14 D+3R) are now openly opposed (others in private) to the conspiracy theorist-led, inexperienced, partisan, internally fractured, unprofessional, opaque senate audit that has been going on for 3 months.
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Just like many Arizona politicians, Fox News personalities privately called the stolen election theories:
"complete bs"
"off the rails"
"nuts"
But then
@TuckerCarlson
,
@IngrahamAngle
,
@seanhannity
parroted them publicly.
They are lying to you.
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Lololololol. This made my evening. Believe it or not, some tiny preparation went into that. I probably would have been 1/10 otherwise.
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@ScottAdamsSays
Depends what you mean by voting machines.
Do you mean machines where you actually digitally vote (e.g. Brazil)?
Or do you mean machines that just tabulate the ovals that are marked by hand?
The latter are used in almost every jurisdiction -- jut like with the standardized…
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Just a reminder that if you really believed that the 2020 and 2022 elections were rigged and controlled by the people behind the curtain, thereby depriving the candidate of all agency, you wouldn’t rationally run for election in 2024.
JUST IN: Kari Lake has filed paperwork to run for US Senate, according to court documents. Lake filed a "Statement of Organization" which now allows her to fundraise and campaign ahead of the 2024 election.
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@ratemyskyperoom
Lololololol. This made my evening. Believe it or not, some tiny preparation went into that. I probably would have been 1/10 otherwise.
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IMHO, proof of citizenship should be required in order to vote.
But I don't control federal law.
And federal law says simple attestation of citizenship is legally sufficient to vote in federal elections.
But people in this category (who say they're citizens, but don't provide…
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It is. And it always has been.
And the worst part is that almost everyone inside politics and laws has known that it’s “horses***”
But so, so many were cowards. Or stood to benefit.
Arizona’s Republican A.G., who voted for Trump, investigated allegations of fraud in the 2020 election and has a word for those claims: “Horses***. That’s what it is. Most of it’s horses***, and I’ve been trying to scrape it off my shoes for the last year”
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Enough with the defamation. Enough with the unfounded allegations. I came to this office to competently, fairly, and lawfully administer the duties of the office. Not to be accused by own party of shredding ballots and deleting files for an election I didn’t run. Enough.
Chairman
@jacksellers
responds to "false and ill-informed" allegations from Arizona Senate and Senate audit account. "It's clearer by the day the people hired by the Senate are in way over their heads." Full statement below:
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Tours!
We surveyed people's thoughts on Maricopa County election administration on a recent tour (not the one pictured below).
23 respondents (optional survey)
Before taking the tour:
Distrust a lot: 0%
Distrust some: 13%
Trust some: 9%
Trust a lot: 78%
After the tour:…
Pebblecreek Republican Club in for a tour of voter registration and election administration.
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New twitter feature.
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Good morning!
It's Saturday, and we at
@RecordersOffice
/
@MaricopaVote
are doing signature verification on the almost 300,000 early ballots we've so far received back for the March 19 Presidential Preference Election.
What does that entail?
1) Your ballot must come back in…
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@prwcarizona
@AZGOP
@AZHouseGOP
@AZSenateGOP
@AZSecretary
@AzFRW
@MaricopaGOP
Because it’s nonsense.
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Part of the reason why "injecting 20,000 fake ballots" can't be a thing.
Wondering what the barcode on your ballot's green envelope is for? It links your ballot to your voter profile, and it's how we ensure each voter only casts one ballot, and all ballots are associated with registered voters.
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.
@MaricopaGOP
:
Can you please, please reconsider supporting an event with an open and aggressive anti-Semite as the keynote speaker?
Much appreciated!
Cc:
@RJC
,
@ADLArizona
,
@JCRC_Phoenix
,
@AJCGlobal
,
@AIPAC
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💣💣💣
BOMBSHELL: all of the bombshells were lies.
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Only two Republican candidates in the entire state can acknowledge that Joe Biden won the election.
Lovely.
Don't ever tell me about respect for the courts or respect for law enforcement or respect for institutions if you're not one of those 2.
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But... but... the mules!
True The Vote says they have no evidence to support their claims of fraud in the 2020 U.S. election and Georgia Senate runoff.
Their assertions were cited heavily for
#2000Mules
, a widely debunked film by
@DineshDSouza
.
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@greg_blaire
Federal law requires that simple attestation is sufficient to vote in federal law.
But that does mean they’re not citizens.
But I agree with you as a matter of policy preference.
Yes, books in Arizona close 29 days before the election. Must be a registered voter by then.…
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Just FYI. Maricopa ONLY uses paper ballots. There are no electronically cast votes. Every vote has a physical ballot.
If you're talking about not using machines to count 2.1 million ballots... then lol. The Ninjas took 2 months to count 2 contests. There were over 60 contests
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hahahahahahahahhahahaa. Yes Gail. You caught me in the act of helping pick up a ballot for a lady who dropped it why trying to put in the box. How dare I?!
I'm allowed to handle ballots as an election official.
Good lord.
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There was no vote… And if a senate vote was held today on whether or not to continue with the Ninjas, it would lose. For all the complaining about Governor acting unilaterally without legislative vote, senate leadership has been doing the same for 7 months
Thanks but the credit truly goes to all the Az Republican senators We voted together as a team to pursue the truth in election integrity
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Reminder that— under court supervision (where you can’t lie willy nilly) as a part of 1 of 8 unsuccessful court cAses — Kelli ward’s handwriting expert looked at a sample of the signature affidavits and found… 0 signs of inaccuracy or fraud.
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Hi Josh!
We're not producing the ballot envelopes for the same reason this office has never produced the envelopes pursuant to a PRR:
Because it would be illegal.
State law thinks it's unwise to give out phone, address, and signature of all voters to anyone who asks.
@BlehmLawAZ
What are you hiding?
@stephen_richer
you claim to run a legal election and then hide The Peoples information. If everything’s on the up and up this should not be a problem.
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85% of Maricopa County voters use an early ballot.
If you want to automatically receive a ballot by mail, sign up for the Active Early Voting List.
Let me know if you need help doing so.
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Reminder of what results will look like.
8:00 PM = Every early ballot that we've already scanned, signature verified, audited, processed, and tabulated. Tonight that will probably be about 540k ballots. Probably 70%+ of the final total vote.
Tonight = All voters who feed…
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@TrueTheVote
Hi
@TrueTheVote
. The Yuma County ballot harvester was in the August 2020 primary. She harvested 4 ballots.
The "2,000 Mules" was about how ballot harvesters stole 2020 general election. Not the Yuma City Council race in the August primary.
Next, both the former and current…
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Truth is an absolute (and easy) defense.
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Truth matters.
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A: “Maricopa County didn’t cooperate.”
B: “But sir, Maricopa County DID cooperate. They worked with us every day for many weeks.”
A: “Meh. Let’s just say it anyway.”
That seems ethical…
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Just had my speaking event for tonight canceled because of a threat to the building by a planned attendee of the event.
I was the only scheduled speaker.
Fun.
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Happily!
You can be one of the hundreds of temporary election workers who work in our central facility during the election.
Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, Greens — come all!
@stephen_richer
I wanna see that place DURING the election , not a set stage.
Your show tours mean nothing!
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🧵I’ve been doing a lot of signature review today. How it works:
Remember, this is how we CONFIRM your identity if you vote by mail.
After scanning the barcode on your ballot and loading the vote to your voter profile, we send the green ballot to a high speed imager (cont)
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Come for the exclamation points, stay for the reelection donation.
Thx!!!
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Significant number of Arizona politicians put stock in something that was:
transparently preposterous,
failed to understand basics of Arizona voting,
and, now, was maybe also a fraud scheme.
Wouldn't be the first felony conviction for D'Souza.
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🧵After the polls closed last night, we shifted back to my operations (Early Vote).
Last night, we took in over 275,000 early ballots dropped off yesterday, Election Day.
These are different from the approximately 230,000 people that the Board of Supervisors...
1/X
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Sorry we're not providing you the name, address, signature, and phone number of every early voter
@KariLake
.
It's against the law. (As you'll learn when you lose yet another lawsuit).
I would say "change the law."
But despite your insistence to the contrary, ur not governor.
Stephen Richer & his fellow obstructionists in Maricopa County think that if they stonewall long enough, we're just going to go away.
It's not going to happen.
We The People of Arizona will no longer tolerate having to vote in third-world elections.
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