The trial of the woman is over. There is a big reveal about Arizona's election.
There was no proof that a plan was hatched to steal Lake of victory.
A small firework was not present. It's not a party popper.
Lake's attorney believed that someone shrunk the ballots to cause Election Day chaos and cost Lake the election.
Lake's attorney said in his closing argument that this was about trusting. "Restoring people's trust is what it's about."
According to Judge Peter Thompson's order, it was about bringing evidence that shows someone deliberately caused the county's ballot-on-demand printers to malfunction and that, as a result, enough "identifiable" votes were lost to change the outcome.
It was about whether the Republican-run county played fast and loose with the rules that required them to keep track of early ballots, which allowed the Democrat to win.
Team Lake didn't come close to either of the counts.
Her attorneys did not reply.
A whistle blower from Runbeck Elections Services, the county's election contractor, who didn't testify, but avowed to a Lake investigator that she saw fellow employees bring in 50 early ballots of family members and illegally add them to the vote total. Lake lost to the governor-elect.
A partisan pollster called himself the "People's Pundit" and his polling firm, Big Data Poll, scored an F rating from the poll analysis website FiveThirtyEight.
Rich Baris believed it was large enough to change the ranking.
Voters who said they were impacted by Election Day problems were given sworn statements. The county said that only three of them didn't vote. Declining to wait in line or put your ballot in a secure box, to be counted later, is not proof that you are not a valid voter.
A cyber security expert testified that the county's printers were set up to spit out 19-inch ballots on 20-inch paper, which wouldn't count. He admitted that they would have been counted.
He acknowledged that when a ballot can't be read by a vote center tabulator, it's sent to a bipartisan board of workers that transfer the voter's choices onto a fresh ballot so it can be tabulated.
The vote center tabulators rejected the printers because they were set to shrink-to-fit, according to Scott Jarrett, the county's co-elections director.
He described a mistake.
Clay Parikh, Lake's expert, said that the 19-inch ballots could not have been accidental.
I think it's a conspiracy.
Who doesn't know? In fantasyland, it might have worked. There are bipartisan boards that make sure the votes are counted. When the votes were counted, there was no doubt about it.
Don't tellLake that. Her campaign has been on fire over the last couple of days, with its own spin on trial testimony and pleas for donations. Like this movie.
The director of elections confirmed that the printer setting change that led to the mass disenfranchisement of Arizona voters occurred the morning of election day.
She claimed victory when she left the courthouse on Thursday afternoon.
The results of the election were changed because of disruptions caused by malicious intent.
There was no doubt that something was proven. If candidates want to overturn the results of an election, they need to come to court with something more than sour grapes.
It wasn't offered up in the courtroom this week if Lake had evidence of a county plan to deny her due.
It's on her account. Do you mean in a courtroom? It is not possible to say yes.
The original article was on Arizona Republic.
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