The Maricopa County Election Materially Afflicted With Errors Says Hamadeh
By Wendi Strauch Mahoney
The Maricopa County Election was “materially afflicted with certain errors and inaccuracies in the management of some polling place operations and in the processing and tabulation of some ballots,” according to Abe Hamadeh’s lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Hamadeh, the Republican candidate for Arizona Attorney General, lists many of the procedural and machine-related issues detailed in a letter sent by Arizona’s Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright on Nov. 19. His allegations also parallel many of the same eyewitness accounts being reported by UncoverDC and the Kari Lake campaign in a lawsuit of her own. Lake says this is not her “main lawsuit,” but she wants answers from Maricopa County. Hamadeh and the RNC seek to “judicially remedy” the canvassed returns to more accurately reflect “the will of the electorate.”
Hamadeh clarifies he is not “by this lawsuit, alleging any fraud, manipulation other intentional wrongdoing that would impugn the outcomes of the Nov. 8, 2022, general election.” With the votes allegedly fully counted and tabulated, Hamadeh and his opponent Kris Mayes are currently separated by “just 510 votes out of more than 2.5 million ballots cast—a margin of two-one hundredths of one percent (0.02%).” Due to the slim margin, an automatic recount of the race has already been triggered.
By almost all accounts, the Maricopa County election was plagued with confusion about rules, errors by poll workers, abnormally long waits, printer and tabulator malfunctions, and improper chain of custody—especially concerning “Door #3” (Door 3) ballots. Allegedly over 62 percent of the voting centers experienced significant problems, according to a summary written by roving attorney Mark Sonnenklar. Contrary to public statements from Chairman Gates, who said the problem was more limited in scope, tabulators rejected ballots all day long at many vote centers. In some cases, ballots were rejected at rates of 100 percent at the “initial insertion of the ballot.” Sonnenklar observed “on average a failure rate of 25% to 40%…..
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