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   From: voters.fraud@democrats.org   
      
   Arizona found itself at the center of national attention on Election Day   
   thanks to a number of controversies.   
      
   Specifically, state election officials were criticized for what appeared   
   to be widespread mismanagement of election processes in Maricopa County.   
   According to election officials, 20 percent of voting locations in the   
   county had malfunctioning vote tabulators.   
      
   Because of this, lines at voting locations were incredibly long. In some   
   cases, wait times reached well over an hour. Some voters were even turned   
   away from voting locations and told to find another. The Western Journal   
   received over 20 exclusive videos featuring Arizona voters explaining how   
   difficult it was for them to cast their ballots. One voter had to wait in   
   line for seven hours.   
      
   These same-day votes were expected to lean Republican. Red State’s   
   Arizona-based journalist Cameron Arcand said several experts indicated as   
   much.   
      
   The governor’s race between Republican firebrand Kari Lake and the not-   
   quite-so-energetic Democrat Katie Hobbs — the current secretary of state   
   responsible for running Arizona elections — was a tight one. On Monday,   
   The Associated Press called the race for Hobbs, who holds a roughly   
   20,000-vote advantage over Lake.   
      
   Despite this, an inside source tells The Western Journal that Lake will   
   not be conceding. The Western Journal founder Floyd Brown also suggested   
   as much in a tweet.   
      
   Floyd Brown   
   @floydbrown   
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   Spent hours last night working with Lake team on a continuing war for   
   Arizona. She will not go quietly into the night. She intends to stand and   
   fight. She knew when she entered this race that it would be tough. Her   
   opponents lack her courage. She is fighting for us. @KariLake   
   6:26 AM · Nov 15, 2022   
      
   Now, of course, you know exactly how the Democrats are going to respond to   
   this news. They’ll call Lake an election denier (despite the fact that   
   Democrats are notorious election deniers themselves) and claim she is a   
   threat to democracy. They’ll say the only responsible action for her to   
   take would be to concede.   
      
   But conceding this race wouldn’t be responsible; it would be exactly the   
   opposite.   
      
   Given what went down in Maricopa County on Election Day, there’s so much   
   we still don’t know.   
      
   For example, how many Republicans were discouraged from casting a ballot   
   thanks to long lines and being turned away from voting locations? How many   
   hard-working men and women have seven hours to spare waiting in line on a   
   Tuesday? How many have even an hour to wait or drive to another voting   
   location if turned away?   
      
   All of this happened in an election run by Lake’s opponent. And that was   
   far from the only conflict of interest.   
      
   As noted by the Post Millennial, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer   
   and Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates started a PAC together aimed   
   at combating MAGA candidates like Lake.   
      
   Hobbs, Richer and Gates ran the 2022 election in Maricopa, Arizona’s most   
   populous county. None of them wanted Kari Lake to win.   
      
   After an Election Day filled with malfunctions and barriers for same-day   
   voters and well over a week of counting votes, all three got the outcome   
   they were hoping for.   
      
   It doesn’t make you an “election denier” to admit something feels off   
   here.   
      
   Lake shouldn’t concede until we have some answers.   
      
   https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-insider-reveals-kari-lake-will-   
   not-concede-governors-race-media-calls-hobbs/   
      
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