Arizona is a hotbed of GOP election denialism, and a slate of Trump-inspired election deniers won the 2022 GOP primaries there, then lost in November. Now they’re filing lawsuits to overturn those results (read story here). I scanned defeated governor candidate Kari Lake’s 70-page filing[...]
Posts Tagged ‘GOP voting conspiracy theories’
December 7th, 2022 - 1:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP’s latest straw-grasping election conspiracy theory
Arizona is a leading hotbed of GOP election conspiracy nuttery. Principal actors in this Theater of the Absurd include: Kari Lake, defeated 2022 GOP candidate for governor; Mark Finchem, defeated 2022 GOP candidate for secretary of state; and Kelli Ward, GOP state party chair and 2020 fake elector. [...]
Judge saves crazy Arizona GOPers from themselves
“Officials in rural Cochise County, Arizona, on Thursday certified the results of the county’s midterm elections” after a judge ordered them to, CNN reported on Thursday, December 1, 2022 (read story here). Cochise County missed the Monday deadline because the two Republicans on the 3-[...]
November 30th, 2022 - 2:02 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Two media outlets, two headlines
The backstory: James Holkeboer, 68, a Michigan election worker, was arrested and “charged with two felonies after allegedly inserting a flash drive into a computer containing confidential voter registration data” during the August 2, 2022, primary, according to Reuters (story here). Head[...]
November 28th, 2022 - 7:05 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Arizona election deniers could give away GOP House seat
Today was the deadline for Cochise County, Arizona (pop. 126,050) to certify the 2022 election. The board of supervisors has 1 Democrat and 2 Republicans. As this article explains, they have a mandatory duty to certify election returns. But 2 Republicans voted “no.” Instead, they voted t[...]
The real reason Kari Lake lost
Kari Lake is a flake, and even Republicans won’t vote for her. That’s how she lost the 2022 election for Arizona governor (read story here). The Arizona Republic, the state’s biggest newspaper, dissected the election and found … (drum roll) … not voting fraud, but ̶[...]
November 3rd, 2022 - 3:18 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP stunt only proved election security works
If Kimberly Zapata (photo, left) intended to demonstrate it’s easy to commit voting fraud, she failed miserably. All she accomplished was getting herself fired from her job as deputy director of the Milwaukee Elections Commission. Zapata had been a city employee about 10 years, but was promote[...]
October 31st, 2022 - 10:59 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP boy who cried wolf
When you’re wrong, you should admit it. Not Bill Bruch (photo, left), who chairs the GOP’s county organization in Skagit County, Washington. He attacked the news media for debunking his group’s spurious election fraud claims. A “Skagit Voter Integrity Project” led by hi[...]
Arizona’s AG has a name for his party’s election denying
Mark Brnovich, Arizona’s outgoing attorney general, didn’t hold back in a CBS “60 Minutes” segment aired on Sunday, October 30, 2022. He said nobody wanted to find voting fraud more than he did, but prosecutors have to deal with facts and evidence, and his office found only 1[...]
October 16th, 2022 - 9:09 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Republicans aren’t entitled to elections they trust
They’re entitled to elections by the established rules, no more nor less. In a TV interview with CNN reporter Dana Bash, whackadoodle candidate Kari Lake said, “The real issue, Dana, is … we have Americans who don’t trust our elections.” (See story here.) No, that isn&#[...]