{"id":8024,"date":"2023-05-18T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2023-05-18T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T20:32:14","slug":"recap-fiery-moments-from-day-1-of-kari-lake-election-court-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=8024","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Fiery Moments from Day 1 of Kari Lake Election Court Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Recap Of Kari Lake Election Court Battle Day 1\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v2ly6qv\/?pub=24ns9#?secret=ABwBFFjGqw\" data-secret=\"ABwBFFjGqw\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Recap: Fiery Moments from Day 1 of Kari Lake Election Court Battle<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Day one of the Kari Lake election challenge investigating potential violations of the signature verification process in Maricopa County was off to a fiery start Wednesday, as Lake\u2019s defense presented evidence most ballots were approved without review.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The courtroom showdown comes as Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/posts\/unstoppable-force-kari-lakes-maricopa-county-signature-verification-case-heads-to-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agreed<\/a> to hear Lake\u2019s arguments on the signature verification process this week after the Arizona Supreme Court sent the case back to lower courts in March.<\/p>\n<p>Check out highlights from Wednesday\u2019s hearing below:<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>Lake\u2019s attorney Kurt Olsen argued it was not physically possible for 11 workers to have approved 170K signatures on ballots unless they were skipping steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t a question of not doing it well enough, Maricopa County simply isn\u2019t doing signature verification,\u201d Olsen later added.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>A whistleblower called to the stand as a witness who worked on election day testified she was sent home early during vote tallies despite ballots still needing to be cured.<\/p>\n<p>She added before being asked to leave she and other election workers were \u201ccatching signatures\u201d that did not match.<\/p>\n<p>She further added some ballots she\u2019d sent for re-review were sent back because review managers were bombarded with ballots.<\/p>\n<p>She added she and other workers felt pressured to approve ballots when they were sent back for re-review after having been rejected, saying, \u201cWe felt uncomfortable about approving what we had already rejected. We\u2019d already went through them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower added that after normal level 1 signature verifiers were sent home early, the signature review process was continued at the County Recorder\u2019s Office, where there were no observers.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>The court also saw damning surveillance footage from inside a ballot counting facility which showed election workers simply approving ballots without scrolling down on their computer monitor to actually verify signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The witness was subsequently asked about the video, to which she responded, \u201cThe person on the right was doing it correctly and the person on the left was not\u2026 there\u2019s no possible way to click through that and be able to verify from the past history in order to verify that signature.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer defended the signature verification process.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Richer tweeted a comment stating, \u201cThis moron doesn\u2019t understand that we can do signature verification from any computer in our office.\u201d He subsequently deleted the tweet which suggested that signature verification may have taken place without proper observer oversight.<\/p>\n<p>The admission in the deleted tweet was caught by Lake\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>In a stunning admission by Maricopa County\u2019s defense attorney, he admitted the employee seen in the video was fired, however there was no indication his workload was re-processed, meaning several ballots had no signature verification whatsoever.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>Witness Shelby Busch said she verified the video shown was authentic and showed what it was purported to show.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>Another whistleblower testified he was concerned about why there were only three level 2 signature verifiers, when there had been 40 level 1 workers.<\/p>\n<p>He also added he\u2019d also been sent back ballots he\u2019d rejected for re-review.<\/p>\n<p>Watch full segments from inside the courtroom below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe title=\"LIVE: Kari Lake in court as her legal team argues claim over election loss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8iKDRIh_gaI?feature=oembed\">VIDEO<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Start below video at 59:18:<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned tomorrow for updates from Day 2 of the two-day legal showdown.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>via Infowars<\/p>\n<p>May 18, 2023 at 07:21AM<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recap: Fiery Moments from Day 1 of Kari Lake Election Court Battle Day one of the Kari Lake election challenge investigating potential violations of the signature verification process in Maricopa County was off to a fiery start Wednesday, as Lake\u2019s defense presented evidence most ballots were approved without review. 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