Stephen Kruiser should be in charge of Arizona’s vote count. This is a shameful situation. Florida was able to count significantly more ballots in half the time. We’re told that it could take several days to find enough votes for Kelly and Hobbs to complete the counting.
We were informed on Thursday that no new results would be available until the weekend… right before a new vote dump marginally increased Hobbs’ lead in the race. Despite how suspicious it may seem, those were pre-Election Day vote results, which were expected to favor Hobbs.
Maricopa County has tabulated 78,869 ballots received prior to ED.
Batch breakdown
Governor@KariLake 45.2@katiehobbs 54.8Senate@bgmasters 42.6@CaptMarkKelly 55.7
AZSOS@RealMarkFinchem 42.8@Adrian_Fontes 57.2
AZAG@AbrahamHamadeh 45.6@krismayes 54.4
— The AZ – abc15 – Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) November 11, 2022
According to multiple reports, approximately 500,000 votes remain to be counted. There are 350,000 in Maricopa County alone. According to Landon Wall, a Republican political consultant, those votes are widely expected to favor Lake and Senate candidate Blake Masters. Wall pointed out that polls show Republicans intend to vote on Election Day overwhelmingly, and that most of the votes still to be counted will be Republican votes.
1) Dozens of high quality polls indicated Republicans overwhelmingly intended to vote in person, and many of those intended to fill out an early ballot and walk it in on Election Day because they did not trust the post office and viewed that interchangeably with voting in person
— Landon Wall (@LandonWall_) November 11, 2022
2) Donald Trump won E day late earlies in Pima and Maricopa. Voting patterns are way closer to 2020 than they are 2018. They are a world away from 2018, we live in an absolutely different political reality.
— Landon Wall (@LandonWall_) November 11, 2022
Caroline Wren, Kari Lake’s senior advisor, stated on Thursday that Hobbs has “no mathematical path” to victory.
There isn’t…. https://t.co/XTgIAcRbql
— Caroline Wren (@CarolineWren) November 11, 2022
One thing is certain: Arizona’s inability to quickly count these ballots is embarrassing. Governor Kari Lake can be sure that she will take action.
