A video of Katie Hobbs’ legal professional touting Maricopa County’s signature verification course of resurfaced after a Choose dismissed Kari Lake’s signature verification problem, proving that lots of of hundreds of ballots weren’t correctly signature verified.
The clip is from Kari Lake’s December trial, the place Choose Peter A. Thompson thought of the failures of ballot-on-demand printers and tabulators on election day and the hundreds of thousands of ballots from Runbeck Election Companies that lack chain of custody documentation.
After Thomspon dismissed Lake’s claims, the Arizona Supreme Courtroom dominated in Lake’s favor on attraction and remanded her signature verification fraud depend, which was tossed earlier than trial, again to the Superior Courtroom for additional assessment. Maricopa County didn’t precisely confirm tens, if not lots of, of hundreds of mail-in signatures.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, on Monday, Thompson once more dominated in favor of Defendants late final night time, claiming that “degree one and degree two signature assessment did happen in some style.”
That’s all it takes. Maricopa County didn’t must confirm signatures precisely or in accordance with the legislation. They simply wanted to assessment signatures “in some style,” in line with Thompson.
In addition they didn’t must have chain of custody documentation, in line with Katie Hobbs’ Marc Elias legal professional, Abha Khanna, as a result of “each poll acquired by Maricopa County is processed, checked in opposition to the voter registration report to ensure the individual hasn’t already voted, after which verified by a multi-level signature assessment course of.”
Nevertheless, Kari Lake legal professional Kurt Olsen told the Court, “11 of the signature verification employees authorized 170k signatures at a price of lower than 0 and a pair of.99 seconds with a 99.97% approval score.” Later, in closing argument, Olsen revealed that “there have been roughly 274,000 poll signatures in contrast and verified in lower than three seconds.”
The Gateway Pundit additionally reported on video footage of at the least one Maricopa County signature reviewer merely clicking by way of signature checks and approving them in lower than two seconds every. This footage was offered by Lake’s attorneys at trial.
Maricopa County filed for sanctions yesterday, alleging “misrepresentations” by Lake’s attorneys eventually week’s trial, however they didn’t even point out these claims or attempt to discredit them as a result of they understand it’s true! Learn the complete Movement for Sanctions here.
Maricopa County signature reviewer Jacqueline Onigkeit testified that she noticed a lot of signatures on poll affidavits that have been completely different names than the voter and that many different level-one signature reviewers “didn’t really feel comfy with what they have been seeing.”
In accordance with the testimony, signature reviewers “have been advised to scroll down and make it possible for we confirm the current inexperienced affidavit with the previous historical past affidavits.”
Maricopa County didn’t precisely confirm tens, if not lots of, of hundreds of mail-in signatures; they couldn’t probably have.
Moreover, Onikgeit acknowledged that “ballots have been despatched again to degree one reviewers by direct supervisors and full-time County staff” as a result of they have been too “overwhelmed” by the variety of rejections.
As soon as signatures are authorized by degree one signature reviewers, “it goes into the extent three randomized 2% audit,” testified Maricopa County Election Director Rey Valenzuela. A considerable variety of ballots with mismatched signatures, verified in simply seconds, have been probably handed by way of this “multi-level” assessment course of.
Chain of custody documentation and signature verification are the one methods of proving that mail-in ballots got here from respectable voters.
The 2 counts go hand in hand and will have been thought of collectively. Nevertheless, Choose Peter Thompson dismissed the depend in Lake’s lawsuit alleging fraudulent signature verification earlier than the primary trial however allowed the lacking chain of custody depend to go to trial in December.
Watch beneath:
Khanna: Even when there have been 50, 500, 500,000 ballots by some means injected into the method, plaintiff has not established {that a} single a kind of ballots was invalid or shouldn’t have been counted, nor might they. Each poll acquired by Maricopa County is processed, checked in opposition to the voter registration report to ensure the individual hasn’t already voted, after which verified by a multi-level signature assessment course of. Even when this Courtroom have been to indulge plaintiff’s chain of custody speculations, there isn’t any proof and even cause to consider that it had any impact on the variety of votes lawfully counted, not to mention on the result of an election that Katie Hobbs received by over 17,000 votes.
Bear in mind from the primary trial, they have been bragging about if there have been 500,000 ballots injected into the system, it must get by their multi-level signature assessment verification! 👌 pic.twitter.com/zEUhlkd7dp
— ItsBS (@ItsBS_YouTube) May 24, 2023
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