Well I can’t see this as being acceptable if Kari Lake was declared the winner.
DEAD wrong AGAIN, Glazed PIGGY: today you took a pecker in your porcine tooter, all the way up to your rooter, lol.
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2 hours in and Kari Lake's trial is already over (or it should be)
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Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Wed, May 17, 2023 at 1:34 PM PDT·3 min read
Kari Lake arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Kari Lake on Wednesday opened her (second)
trial challenging the 2022 election ... with a complete and total fizzle.
Her attorney, Kurt Olsen, told the judge he’d be presenting evidence that Maricopa County didn’t verify the voter signatures on “hundreds of thousands” of early ballots, instead hiring signature reviewers who just went through the motions while the county looked on.
“This isn’t a question of not doing it well enough,” he told judge. “They’re simply not doing signature verification.”
Then Olson called his first witness: A “whistleblower” who proceeded to annihilate Lake’s case.
Lake's star witness was great ... for the defense
Jacqueline Onigkeit, who worked as a level one reviewer during last year’s election, spent more than an hour explaining the lengths to which county went to verify signatures — the weeklong training of workers, the two shifts of level one reviewers, three levels of signature review, the admonition to get it right.
“They (supervisors) told us, ‘You need to be very cautious. You need to pay attention to what you’re doing and remember that whatever you reject or approve, you can be called in to testify,’ ” Onigkeit testified.
As a witness for the defense, Onigkeit was dynamite.
The problem is, she was supposed to be the star witness for Lake.
Another view: Lake wins if she loses her court challenge
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson made it clear what Lake needs to do to win this, her second try at booting Gov. Katie Hobbs out of office.
“The Court can — and does — hold Plaintiff to her counsels’ representation of the scope of her claim at Trial, that no signature verification was conducted,” he wrote, in a
ruling issued on Tuesday.
No signature verification.
Video also bolsters Maricopa County's case
Two hours in and this trial is already over.
Or it should be.
Olsen, in his opening statement, told Thompson that signature reviewers were clicking through images of comparison signatures “as fast as they could tap the keyboard.”
As a result, he said, more than 274,000 ballots were approved in less than three seconds each.
Then he showed a video of a guy who appears to be doing just that.
What's next? Lake's signature verification dispute continues
It might have been an impressive visual — except for the fact that Deputy County Attorney Tom Liddy told the judge the guy was pulled from the job for not doing the job.
That just bolstered the county’s case that it was taking signature verification seriously.
This is more 'bust' than blockbuster
As Lake’s “whistleblower” bolstered the county’s case.
Onigkeit told Thompson that signature reviewers were “bombarded” with ballots the day after the election but that they were repeatedly warned about moving too quickly.
Any signatures they rejected were kicked up to level two reviewers, who would sometimes kick them back for a second look.
But even then, she said, there was no pressure on level one reviewers to accept those signatures. Meanwhile, there was a third level of people auditing their work.
“I don’t know who worked level 3,” she testified. “I just know we were informed … that we were being audited every day and if we were approving too many signatures or rejecting too many signatures we’d be called into an office and talked to and if it happened again, we’d be let go.”
Onigkeit said she was diligent in doing the work.
“I was very focused on verifying signatures and making sure the signatures matched,” she said.
As blockbusters go, Kari Lake is halfway there.
If you count the “bust” part
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