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The Final Numbers from Arizona (13 Days After Election Edition)
You guys: On Monday, November 21, all counties in the state of Arizona finally finished counting the Election Day votes. And it only took them 13 days. In fact, two of the contests were so close that automatic recounts were triggered. Those won’t begin until after December 5 … another 14 days away.
Want to restore trust in the process, Arizona? Reform the bad election laws. For the last time, let’s go to the big board…
Governor
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Kari Lake (R) | 49.7% | 1,270,774 |
| √ Katie Hobbs (D) | 50.3% | 1,287,890 |
U.S. Senator (race called for Sen. Kelly, Friday, Nov. 11)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Blake Masters (R) | 46.5% | 1,190,643 |
| √ Mark Kelly (D) | 51.4% | 1,315,771 |
Secretary of State (race called for Adrian Fontes, Friday, Nov. 11)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Finchem (R) | 47.6% | 1,200,411 |
| √ Adrian Fontes (D) | 52.4% | 1,320,618 |
Attorney General
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abe Hamadeh (R) | 50.0% | 1,254,102 |
| * Kris Mayes (D) | 50.0% | 1,254,612 |
Treasurer (race called for Kimberly Yee, Saturday, Nov. 12)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| √ Kimberly Yee (R) | 55.7% | 1,390,135 |
| Martin Quezada (D) | 44.3% | 1,107,036 |
Superintendent of Public Instruction
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| * Tom Horne (R) | 50.2% | 1,255,977 |
| Kathy Hoffman (D) | 49.8% | 1,247,009 |
None of the percentages shifted over the past week. Of course, these numbers are unofficial until certified on December 5. But we’re not out of the weeds yet!
An automatic recount is triggered when opposing candidates finish within 0.5 percent of the total votes. This applies to two races: Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Instruction. In the first, Kris Mayes (D) defeated Abe Hamadeh (R) by a mere 510 votes. In the second, Tom Horne (R) defeated incumbent Kathy Hoffman (D) by 8,968 votes.
Also, Arizona’s current Attorney General, Mark Brnovich (R), has demanded that Maricopa County officials provide a report on the tabulation machine problems on Election Day. By November 28, the county must detail the specific problems related to the printers at each polling location and how poll workers were trained.
Please note that your humble author sat next to Mark Brnovich in government class at Shadow Mountain High School. We would pass National Review issues back and forth, and drive our liberal teacher crazy with our anti-communist tirades. At the time, I worked as a highly acclaimed bag boy at Safeway. One afternoon, after we annoyed the teacher in class, he came into the store and bought a 12-pack of Meister Brau (a very, very cheap beer). After that, we called him “Meister Brau”; he didn’t like that either.
P.S. I worked with AG candidate Hamadeh at the Goldwater Institute, and AG candidate Mayes was my editor at Arizona State’s student newspaper. Knowing me is apparently a job requirement.
Previous Arizona Election Posts:
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https://spectator.org/arizonas-election-bungle/
Did the 2022 midterms turn Arizona blue, or at a minimum, purple? Is Arizona where the “stop the steal” movement went to die? Did the midterm election show the toxicity of a Trump endorsement in local general-election races? And how is it that Florida, a state with three times the population of Arizona, can have its votes counted before you go to bed on election night, but it takes Arizona almost two weeks?
No. Its impossible to prove anything beyond doubt when a reasonable investigation was not permitted. This is the key difference. Democrats invent a tale of woe, alleging all manor of conspiracy in the 2016 election, and the congress spends thousands of man hours, millions of dollars hunting every rumor down, every allegation has been disproved.
Republicans have a problem with an election result, the courts wont hear the case – there are no subpoenas, no testimony or data gathered.
Mens rea. How would the guilty man react? Investigate everything in my election? Or spend million on lawyers to make sure no document is ever examined, no clerk is ever questioned? Who’s acted guilty?
In my mind, its uncontroversial to say the 2020 election was stolen. Fair and Square.
I guess it’s possible to make the “fair and square” claim, but to me judges who won’t hear cases maybe because they don’t want Antifa showing up at their homes with torches and pitchforks, doesn’t make it “fair and square.”
Is it not bad enough that we have proof of illegalities exceeding the Biden margin of victory in the swing states?
Is it not bad enough that the illegalities in question tend to be fraud-enabling even when they are not fraud as such?
Is it not bad enough that certainly illegalities almost certainly flipped swing states, whether or not they were fraud as such?
And chain-of-custody in many places wasn’t even good enough to qualify as a joke.
To me this is key.
Dropboxes were against WI election law. Therefore, all those ballots were invalid even though they got counted. They should not have been. That was enough to flip the state.
To call me a “denier” because of that is living in one’s own denial.
Outdoor dropboxes, but yes.
(Indoors at the city clerk’s office are prolly ok, though I’d have to review my notes to be sure of anything.)
Leaving our neighborhood on Thanksgiving, we passed a car with Arizona plates and a Kari Lake bumper sticker. I don’t know exactly which house it was going to, but it was closest to a house that had a Bernie yard sign last election. Would have liked to have been a guest if things got political.
Gary, the scope of what you study around politics and government is way too narrow.
Listen to the Brietbart podcast or something.
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