Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake Maria Bartiromo raised several alarms over her state’s voting process and the fact that her opponent, Katie Hobbs, did not recuse herself as Arizona’s chief election officer. Lake blasted officials for being ‘unprepared’ on voting day with many facilities either having voting machines down or printers, not in operation.
“We called for her to recuse herself July of last year of 2021, right after we got into the race, recognizing that there’s a major ethical problem there. Obviously, just the optics of it looks bad. And she didn’t do that,” Kari Lake said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.”
“Even though many people been calling for her to recuse herself, it creates problems to say the least,” Lake continued.
Hobbs currently has just 34,000 more votes than lake but the state has been stuck at 88% counted for days. Lake said a firm timeline for the final count is “wishy-washy” and was told the state might have answers anywhere from Monday to later this week.
Lake told Bartiromo that Hobbs is “partially” responsible for the election in which she is running for governor.
“She will be the one that would certify the election. She has a lot to do with registration, voter registration, all kinds of things … voter rolls and advising counties on how many ballots they’ll need,” Lake explained.
Lake said that for now, she is holding tight as the ballots continue being counted and is hopeful that votes from deep-red areas have not been tabulated yet.
“We have election season here. We start voting about a month before Election Day, and we keep counting after Election Day — forever. And we’re in the process of still counting the votes and there are about 300,000 ballots that have not been counted, this is according to the county recorder,” she said.
Lake is still hopeful that she will pull ahead of Hobbs. Even at 88% counted one of the largest Republican strongholds in the state are still counting. “Many of them in Maricopa County, and they are from heavy, very heavy, Republican areas. So, we’re waiting for the vote to be counted,” she added.
All eyes are on just a handful of states, Arizona included, as the ‘new machine process’ proves to be inept yet again. Both sides are virtuously overseeing the process to ensure accuracy so that’s another silver lining. While I hate how long this has all taken, I appreciate that it’s not like 2020 with votes jumping dramatically overnight. Still, it proves that a better system needs to prevail from all of this.
