Five reasons Arizona hasn’t declared who won presidential and Senate contests

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Five reasons Arizona hasn’t declared who won presidential and Senate contests
By
Emily Hallas
November 8, 2024 8:28 pm
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Nearly three full days have passed since polls closed in Arizona and voters across the state still don’t know who won the state’s close Senate and presidential races.

As of Friday evening, the winner in the senate race between Republican Kari Lake and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has yet to be declared. The same goes for the top of the ticket, where it remains to be confirmed whether President-elect Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris won the battleground state.

Gallego leads Lake by a narrow margin, while Trump holds a comfortable advantage over Harris. Here are a few reasons why ballots are still being counted, holding up the final results in the two races, and others across the state.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/3224801/five-reasons-arizona-no-declaration-election/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

#6 - It always comes down to bias

Arizona election official said he wanted to 'make life hell' for Kari Lake with Senate race still undecided
Kari Lake is running a close second in the race for Arizona Senate seat
By ROB CRILLY, CHIEF U.S. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
8 November 2024 | Updated: 19:53 EST, 8 November 2024

The election official overseeing voting in Arizona's most populous county told a friend last year that he was interested in pursuing a Senate run 'to make life hell for Kari [Lake]', according to court documents seen by DailyMail.com.

As Maricopa County Recorder, Stephen Richer is in charge of the ballots that could decide whether Lake triumphs in her tight run for the Senate.

But the comments will raise questions from allies of the conservative firebrand about whether he can be trusted to run a fair election.

The explosive words come from the transcript of a June 21 deposition that will be included in papers to be filed Friday as part of a defamation case brought by Richer against Lake.

They show Richer also describing himself as 'anti-MAGA.'

How Kari Lake went from beloved TV anchor to Trump's 'killer' in Arizona

Lake, a key figure in Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement, claimed that she lost the 2022 race for governor because of intentional misconduct but failed in her legal challenges to overturn the result.

She currently trails her Democratic opponent Ruben Gallego by less than two percentage points with about 77 percent of ballots counted

But the race is much closer than many polls predicted, setting up the possibility of another round of legal challenges if Lake loses.

In the deposition, Richer is asked to look at communication between himself and a friend called Ben Blink.'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/3224801/five-reasons-arizona-no-declaration-election/#google_vignette

[HikerGuy83]

We need to fix this by 2026.

I grow tired of this B.S.