A supporter of Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake listens to Jerone Davison, who ran for election in Arizona Congressional District 4, outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix on Monday, Nov 14, 2022.
A supporter of Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake listens to Jerone Davison, who ran for election in Arizona Congressional District 4, outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix on Monday, Nov 14, 2022.

The results of the election were certified by the board of supervisors on Monday.

The protesting, the suing, and the general cry that the election was stolen from under them.

The grifting was also present.

One of Lake's recent appeals for funds said, "With one contribution of $5, $10, or $35, I can reach every corner of the state and make sure that Republicans know that their ballot might not have been counted."

Lake, others continue to pitch a fit

For weeks now, Team MAGA's top candidates have been busy pitching a fit about the fact that they lost, filing lawsuits, and doing anything and everything they can to undermine confidence in Arizona's Nov. 8 election.

Over the weekend, there was a story about the "mass voter disenfranchisement" in Arizona.

She told Real America's Voice that she would do everything in her power to make sure that every single Arizonan's vote was counted.

Her team details how they won.

A lawsuit was filed last week to prevent the state from certifying the vote in the attorney general's race. An automatic recount will take place after the state certifies the election.

I'm not going to stop now. He urged people to do this Arizona.

Mark Finchem came up with a new and improved theory for why he lost to Adrian Fontes. ros is in charge of Fontes. The press is under the control of an individual. The affiliates are controlled by the man. The Sheriff is in the control of someone. The recorder is in the hands of a man. The county supervisors are under the control of the billionaire. He said it was time to take back Arizona.

The congressman got into the act. Thousands of voters in Arizona were unable to cast their votes due to the incompetence of the county. He said on Friday that the election needed a do-over.

No one was denied their right to vote.

If some people didn't vote, it may be because they were told not to vote by early ballot and to be suspicious of everything on Election Day.

Did it really disenfrancise voters?

There were problems on election day. The chairman of the county's board of supervisors said so on Monday.

He said that the election was not a perfect one. The votes have been accurately counted.

Only a few of the several hundred people who showed up on Monday stayed long enough to hear the county debunk their various claims of the election being stolen. They have been taught not to believe anything election officials say.

The Arizona Republican Party didn't care about facts.

In Arizona, voters were not allowed to vote. There is nothing else to say. The party didn't care what the vote said.

There were problems with printers in 43 of the county's 223 voting centers on Election Day, but no voters were left out, and no laws were broken.

Every voter was provided a ballot by which he or she could record their votes, and all such ballots cast by lawful voters were tabulated, whether in the vote center or at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center, according to a letter written by a deputy county attorney.

Let's debunk those MAGA complaints with facts

The county responded to some of the questions from the Elections Integrity Unit.

Republican voters were forced to wait in line for hours, with tens of thousands of them leaving before the polls opened.

According to the county, the average wait at the vote centers was six minutes. The longest wait was no more than 45 minutes. The seven vote centers that had wait times of up to 115 minutes were not the only ones with long waits.

Voters were told to put their ballots in a box to be counted, but nobody knows if those ballots were counted because of printer problems.

The county has used secure ballot boxes to collect ballots that can't be read. They are taken to the count.

There were problems with printers on Election Day. Poll workers told voters to put their ballots in the secure doors. Some voters were groomed for two years not to trust election officials.

The county reported that many high profile and influential individuals instructed voters to not deposit their ballots in Door 3.

Kelli Ward, the state GOP Chairwoman, warned people not to put their money in Box 3 or Diver 3.

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA warned not to put your money in box 3 to be taxied downtown.

16,724 voters dropped their ballots into the door 3 box because of printer problems or because the tabulators couldn't read the markers provided at the vote centers.

The county said 16,724 were counted.

Thousands of voters left one polling place due to printer issues and went to another, but were not allowed to vote.

206 voters checked in at a voting center and then left to cast their votes at another center, according to the county. 84 of them were given standard ballots after checking out of the first voting center. Some of the voters who didn't check out of their first polling place were given a ballot. The voters were checked to make sure they hadn't already cast their ballot.

In reality, Lake and company simply lost

There were 203 ballots counted.

You wouldn't know it from the irate voters who lined up on Monday morning to call the supervisors "traitors" and "vote traffickers" because the vote didn't happen.

One voter said that it was clear that voters were not allowed to vote.

One person said that if you certify today, the only thing you will be certifying is your corruptness.

One woman said they had no confidence in the process.

I think she's right. She has been told for the past two years that our elections can't be trusted.

Lake's campaign announced on Monday that the supervisors ignored overwhelming proof of voter suppression.

The Lake campaign said this is not over.

Lake and company will be able to introduce their overwhelming proof when they file their lawsuits after next week. I think their complaints will be long on talk and light on evidence.

Lake and her fellow America Firsters were soundly defeated. Will scream about it for the next two years.

To raise funds to fight it.

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The election has been certified. Allow the grifting to start.