Kari Lake, a supporter of election integrity and confidence in results, welcomed a recent decision by the Arkansas county court to return to paper ballots instead of electronic voting machines. Citizens’ faith that their ballots would actually count on election day is strengthened by this ruling.
According to a tweet from Lake, a Cleburne County judge recently rendered a decision that provided reason for rejoicing. Click the link KARK gave in their article to learn more about this decision and its effects!
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Officials with the Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative Inc. (AVII) said the vote was in response to AVII CEO Colonel Conrad Reynolds’ push for election computers to be removed from Arkansas elections. The decision will now require votes to be hand counted.
“The machines do not read the names on the ballots, instead, they scan barcodes, which humans cannot read,” Reynolds said. “They also utilize proprietary software that we are not allowed to examine. This all means voters cannot verify that their vote is being counted properly as mandated by state law.”
A lawyer for AVII asserted that, in accordance with state regulations, Arkansas counties were in complete discretion of deciding how and how often their constituents might cast ballots.
Justice of the Peace Jacque Martin of Cleburne County voted in support of switching to paper votes. According to KARK, Martin remarked, “It’s time we take back and return to having elections we can have faith in – with transparency and honesty.”
By switching all 74 counties in the state from electronic votes back to conventional paper ballots, AVII is committed to restoring fair voting processes as part of their aim to guarantee safe and secure elections. They are adamantly supporting credible and open election systems in their area, with a completion date scheduled for 2021.
In her tweet, Lake said, “Americans in EVERY state and EVERY community must demand honest elections. No electronic voting machines, replace election month with election day and paper ballots that are hand-counted in small precincts. We demand honest & transparent elections NOW!”
The Arizona Court of Appeals approved a quick assessment of Lake’s claims of election irregularities on Thursday. These allegations, if confirmed, may have significantly changed the results of the voting in November.
The Epoch Times reports:
In a brief order, issued on Jan. 9 and made public the next day, the court ordered a reset of “the matter for conference on February 1, 2023,” and agreed with Lake’s arguments that her challenge should be handled as a “special action petition.” The court date was reportedly scheduled for March.
Lawyers for Democrat Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, the state’s former secretary of state, [have] until Jan. 17 to respond and argue why Lake’s challenge should be rejected, according to the order. Lake had petitioned both the state’s Appeals Court and Supreme Court after a Maricopa County judge rejected her case after a two-day trial in December.
In an interview with the Salem News Channel on Friday, Lake also claimed that her legal team has “three whistleblowers in the signature verification department in Maricopa County who said that they were rejecting tens of thousands of signatures to the tune of up to 130,000 ballots that were being rejected for bad signatures, and somebody above them was sending them on through to be counted anyway.”
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“Lake’s lawyers previously argued that those Maricopa officials allegedly ‘admitted, after first denying, that illegally misconfigured ballots were injected into the election’ and triggered the ‘tabulators to reject tens of thousands of ballots,’” The Epoch Times reported, citing court documents. “Lawyers stated Republican voters on Election Day were disproportionally impacted.”
Maricopa County officials have made the decision to investigate what went wrong with printers during the contentious election in November after receiving complaints from a large number of residents and legal action from Lake. May the depths of this study provide the truth!
Former Supreme Court Justice Ruth McGregor, who is well-known in the legal community in Arizona, has been chosen to lead an impartial investigation into a dispute involving a county. It appears that decision-makers made the right choice for this crucial job because she has more than ten years of experience on the state’s top court and has examined prison security in the past.
McGregor plans to hire a team of “independent experts to find out why the printers that read ballots well in the August Primary had trouble reading some ballots while using the same settings in the November General,” Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and Vice Chairman Clint Hickman noted in the statement. “Our voters deserve nothing less.”
