The Kari Lake trial is underway now after The Arizona Supreme Court docket remanded the “inaccurate[ly]” dismissed signature verification fraud rely again to Decide Peter Thompson for additional assessment.
Thompson beforehand dismissed the lawsuit on Christmas Eve, regardless of the proof of large voter disenfranchisement focusing on Republicans and clearly false trial testimony by County Elections officers within the December trial.
The primary witness known as to the stand by Lake’s attorneys was degree one signature reviewer Jacqueline Onigkeit, who testified that they have been seeing signatures on poll affidavits that have been completely different names and that many different degree one reviewers “didn’t really feel comfy with what they have been seeing.”
These ballots have been despatched again to degree one reviewers by direct supervisors and full-time County workers, Tony, Michelle, Paloma, and Cecilia, for degree one to approve the signature anyway, stated Onigkeit. “If it’s a singular identify you’re going to recollect,” she stated.
Onigkeit beforehand submitted an affidavit which is included in Kari Lake’s preliminary 70-page submitting. She testified that “nothing prevented” signature reviewers from approving fraudulent signatures “with out accountability.”
From Kari Lake’s lawsuit:
Three signature verification staff have signed sworn declarations regarding their expertise at Maricopa County throughout the 2022 normal election.[4]These three witnesses testified that their and their co-workers’ rejection charges whereas verifying signatures ranged from 35-40% (Onigkeit Decl. ¶¶ 19-22), 15%-30% (Myers Decl. at ¶¶ 18, 21), to 35%-40% (Nystrom Decl. ¶ 13). These figures are according to the rejection charge of WPAA mentioned above equating to tens of hundreds of unlawful ballots being counted.
Every of those witnesses testified to deep flaws within the poll signature verification and/or curing course of employed by Maricopa County.
Jacqueline Onigkeit reviewed roughly 42,500 ballots and rejected about 13,000 to fifteen,000 of them, with rejection charges within the 25% – 40% vary. Her co-workers complained of comparable rejection charges. Onigkeit Decl. ¶¶ 23, 25.
Maricopa permitted any signature reviewer to un-reject ballots with out accountability utilizing curing stickers. Staff have been in a position to acquire large quantities of those stickers and use them to remedy ballots with out oversight. Onigkeit defined:
In an effort to carry out the curing course of, we got a batch of stickers to position on a poll, which included stickers with abbreviations. Some, however not all, of the poll stickers and abbreviations have been as follows: “VER” meant that we verified the voter’s info, and their poll was accepted to be counted, “WV” meant {that a} voter didn’t wish to confirm their poll over the telephone, and “LM” meant that we known as the voter and left a message.
One of many issues with the stickers was that nothing prevented a degree 1, 2 or 3 labored from requesting an enormous quantity of “accepted” stickers and putting them on ballots. Once more, observers didn’t watch any degree 3 work and didn’t watch most of degree 2 work. As soon as stickers have been positioned on ballots, there was no report on the poll or elsewhere to find out who positioned the sticker there. We have been informed to not signal or preliminary the sticker, however to solely date it. Accordingly, there was no strategy to know who positioned “verified” stickers on ballots. The system was extensive open to abuse and allowed for potential false placement of “verified” stickers with out accountability.
Onigkeit Decl. ¶¶ 17-18.
This morning, throughout the trial, Onigkeit testified the next:
We have been having so many issues with signatures and the rejections… they [level two reviewers] have been getting overloaded with signatures and so they have been getting pissed off.
We’d exit on breaks or at lunch, and Andrew and Jeff would complain about what number of [signatures] they have been having to undergo, and so they didn’t assume they have been going to have the ability to get by these signatures as a result of there was too many and there was not sufficient of them. I do know there have been instances when rejected signatures that I did ship to them, they really despatched them again to us as a result of they acquired so overloaded for degree two. So, as a result of we’d query, we’d ask the supervisor, I simply checked out this signature and I rejected it. Why am I seeing the identical signatures once more? And they also would say, the extent two managers, they’ve acquired too many to undergo. So, we’re simply sending them again to you to re-review and see if there isn’t something that matches.
It wasn’t simply me complaining, it was different folks in my room that have been complaining of what number of as a result of we saved having to name the managers over to come back and have a look at the signatures of you know the way dangerous they have been. They weren’t matching up and, , what do I do with this? So, they might come over and simply inform us you should be very cautious. You might want to take note of what you’re doing. And keep in mind that no matter you reject or approve, you would be known as in to testify. And I believe that’s why numerous us have been asking them to come back over and look as a result of there was so many dangerous signatures.
We had seen ones that we had already rejected have been being put again into the queue. So, we requested, , I simply did this possibly like a half an hour in the past. If it’s a singular identify you’re going to recollect, and so numerous us have been stating why why are we seeing these? What’s occurring, and we have been informed by Tony, or Michelle, Paloma, or Cecilia that they kicked it again as a result of degree two had too many to undergo. They only wished to be sure to know, for us to return by and actually confirm whether or not or not we couldn’t discover a match.
I believe all of us felt actually pressured once they despatched again what we had already reviewed. And we actually didn’t really feel comfy about approving what we had already rejected. We had already went by them. So, , once we questioned them about it, they simply informed us, in the event you nonetheless don’t really feel like yow will discover a match, go forward and re-reject it. And I did as a result of I didn’t really feel comfy approving one thing that I had already rejected. We already went by them.
Particularly for the newer those that hadn’t labored the elections, they didn’t really feel comfy with what they have been seeing and so they have been complaining.
We have been catching signatures of people that didn’t even belong within the historical past. That means if it’s a John Smith, and it was a lady’s identify and this wasn’t a married couple. This was utterly completely different names. So, they informed us to put in writing down the voter ID, the identify of the particular person and to provide it to Jeff, the second degree supervisor, and he was preserving a spreadsheet of all of these signatures, and we have been informed they have been going to wash up the voter historical past to try to eliminate these out, as a result of we requested how did these even probably get into the historical past? They’re not even the identical. They’re not the identical identify, they weren’t a relative. How did this occur? The addresses have been completely different, every thing.
They [others] have been complaining lots about numerous the dangerous signatures.
The very subsequent day [after election day] we acquired bombarded with I’m gonna say near 298,000 ballots that we’ve got to undergo. It was very overwhelming.
We’d be going by signatures after which we’d discover one which we simply went over. That had been kicked again as a result of degree two acquired too overwhelmed with with their crews. And they also would are available in and say we’re sending again the extent two supervisor queue to you to simply recheck, examine in a second time and be sure to’re not lacking something… Most of us rejected them and despatched them again to degree two.
After temporary cross-examination by the Maricopa County attorneys, Lake lawyer Kurt Olsen performed a video of a signature verification employee approving mail-in poll signatures in lower than two seconds every with out evaluating them to a voter signature.
The Gateway Pundit reported this video that reveals the reality about Maricopa County’s fraudulent signature verification by exhibiting a signature verification employee approving mail-in poll signatures in lower than two seconds every. Kari Lake’s attorneys plan to disclose extra at trial.
See examples of the fraudulent signatures beforehand accepted by Maricopa County here.
The Defendants’ attorneys very strongly objected to the video being introduced as a result of they know that it proves the County’s signature verification is a sham! The Decide, nonetheless, allowed the video to play and for the witness to reply questions regarding the video.
“There is no such thing as a doable strategy to click on by that and be capable to confirm from the previous historical past with a purpose to confirm that signature, regardless in the event you’re going ahead by the 250 or backward by the 250. We have been informed to scroll down and guarantee that we confirm the current inexperienced affidavit with the previous historical past affidavits. He didn’t spend any time verifying the signature,” acknowledged Onigkeit.
Watch the trial stay here!
