Arizona candidate for governor Kari Lake deserves to see an “honest count” after nearly a dozen Republican attorneys described widespread election day problems in the state’s Maricopa county, said Epoch Times contributor and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“I think all she has to say right now is that she wants to see exactly what happens, and she wants to see whether or not there’s a final result,” Gingrich said talking about Lake who has refused so far to concede to her opponent Kati Hobbs.
On election day, widespread problems with tabulation equipment took place affecting about 30 percent of all voting locations and an estimated 17,000 ballots, according to local election officials.
Gingrich described the finding as “astonishing” and noted that these problems particularly affected Republican voters, who tend to vote on election day.
According to Gingrich, if the issue had affected primarily democrat voters “you would’ve had a huge outcry.”
“It’s amazing to me what a big mess this is,” Gingrich said.
“Arizonans deserve a full report and accounting of the myriad problems that occurred in relation to Maricopa County’s administration of the 2022 General Election,” she wrote in a letter. The deadline she set for a response from the civil division of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office is Nov. 28.
Gingrich believes that Lake “should be in favor of an honest count” and advised her to “be prepared to be patient.”
“I don’t think she should make any charges until they know something, but certainly there are enough things going on, and the fact that the Attorney General of Arizona is now involved says to me that it’s a situation that’s worth looking into,” he said. “She has no reason to jump ahead.”
“Whistleblowers are coming forward and the curtain is being lifted. Whether done accidentally or intentionally it is clear that this election was a debacle that destroyed any trust in our elections,” she said.
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