The latest returns from the state’s two largest counties has given Kyrsten Sinema the lead in her bid for U.S. Senate — barely.
New figures late Thursday from the Secretary of State’s Office find the Democrat has opened up a 9,610-vote edge over Republican Martha McSally out of about 1.9 million votes already counted, or about half a percentage point. That is a sharp reversal from just 24 hours earlier when Sinema trailed her GOP foe by about 15,000.
Those newly counted ballots also have given Democrat Kathy Hoffman the lead in her race for state superintendent of public instruction. She is now up by 20,348 over Republican Frank Riggs; a day ago he had 7,200 more votes than she did.
The change in fortune comes as the Arizona Republican Party and four of its county affiliates are trying to get a judge to block election officials in Maricopa, Pima, Coconino and Apache counties from counting some late-cast early ballots. Voters in those four counties all were breaking for the Democrat contenders.
This is an excerpt. Read more at Arizona Capitol Times.
arizona never ever fails to disapoint me.
mcsally is twice the person and american that SIN-ema will ever be.
We need to be taking commies out, not electing them to office.
I always toss the BULL flag, when every time it seems we get one of these recounts, we always seem to
A) See a mass # of votes “that just happened to have been found”
and B) 90% or more of those newly found votes, seem to ALWAYS be for the dems.
Sorry but there is some MAJOR HINKEINESS going on here.
B) More like 100% of the new votes are for the Democrat.
They aren’t even trying to hide their contempt anymore.
And since its KNOWN one of the gals in charge of these recounts, has been done for vote tampering before. How is no one on the right, raising bloody murder about that fact?
“Democrat Sinema takes lead over McSally as ballots still being counted”
No, not quite right.
“Democrat Sinema takes lead over McSally as ballots still being conjured”
Fixed.
Or “Democrat sinema takes lead ofer Mcsally, as republican ballots disappear”
I don’t understand how there is such a thing as “missing ballots” that have any effect on the results once found. As a poll worker in Massachusetts, all ballots *must* be sealed at the polling location, and delivered to City Hall the same night, along with the printouts of the machine-counted totals. If a Warden and his Constable were to show up with ballots even the next morning, they would never be invited to work at the polls again–and depending on the results of the machine recount of the delivered and “missing” ballots, they might face criminal charges! Someone please tell me how this can possibly be “a thing” in election after election, without being _prima facie_ evidence of election fraud?!
I am a poll worker in SC and our rules state the same thing. Machines are sealed and tapes run and posted at the polling place for the public to see them. Any hanky-panky stuff like what’s going on in Florida will get you a nice orange wardrobe with a DOC monogram.
Then if that’s the bloody policy, WHY ARE ballots that are “just found” even 4 days later, being allowed to get counted, as you CANNOT VERIFY there’s not been any tampering with them, due to NO VERIFIABLE chain of custody.
I Wonder how many Illegal Aliens Voted .
There are illegal ballots being cast in Arizona, and no one will do anything to stop it.
Strange how the Arizona, Montana, Florida vote counts came in steady and we were ahead, then suddenly stopped dead overnight,,,then came back online well into the next day with Democrats all now ahead. These Democrats are making the Russians look like amateurs in election collusion, and corruption. If someone does not go to jail then all is lost. How does a Democrat woman in Florida convicted of destroying Republican votes in past elections get put in charge of Dade County election counting? Our last hope may again be the Supreme court.
It is highly interesting, a woman CONVICTED of election tampering, is put in charge of an ELECTION recount.
Follow the money.
At least I think we have a Supreme Court which will rule in favor of enforcing state election laws. Complete enforcement of all state election laws, most assuredly requiring proof [not merely a signature] of Citizenship and residency in a specific precinct for registration, along with [at a minimum] verification that an individual’s signature match the registration signature or verifiable photo ID in order to receive and cast the ballot. All non-verified individuals should be allowed a paper provisional ballot and in-person verification of the voter’s identity and residency must be provided within 48 hours of the polls closing. If in-person verification is not done within that time frame, the provisional ballot is destroyed by shredding in the presence of multiple witnesses from all parties who have a candidate on the ballot.
She is Supervisor of Elections in Broward County. She replaced another corrupt Democrat, Miriam Oliphant. Brenda Snipes stuffed the ballot box in 2016 for Debbie Wassermann-Schultz.
They are all Democrat hacks and the Northeast liberals have all moved to South Florida to change the landscape from red to blue!
Hold the heck on. SHE GOT Done for vote tampering in 2016, and NOW SHE’s a bloody supervisor?
The thing that is bothering me the most is that only the Florida election is getting all the news, and investigations. This is going on in many more states, but being shoved under the rug. As I said, nothing is being done about it in Arizona except for counting the 500,000 ballots which suddenly appeared after McSally had won. I figure that if it gets in the news, investigations will start.
As of yesterday, when i looked, Mcsally’s down by more votes, as Sienma’s lead increases. YET I SEE NOTHING from Mcsally to challenge it?
Corruption and Voter Fraud to the MAX by demoncraps .
Maybe it is time for another battle of Athens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
demoncraps , leftists , are for the Destruction of America .
Kind of ironic with all these concerns about Russian meddling in our elections and we’re unable to conduct reliably authentic elections ourselves.
wakeforest, sadly you have nailed the truth dead center. Disheartening to be right . The attention is on Broward County FL where blatant voting fraud is occurring in a replay of the Gore fiasco. Obviously, FL isn’t the only fraud area. And honest folks feel helpless to do anything.
Could you share with us more information about your doubts about our elections. I’m interested in what we can do to make everyone feel confident in the results?
How’s about for one, WHY IS IT when the dems are the ones WINNING before the end of election night, we never ONCE SEE this sort of ‘recount going on’?
Secondly, why is it we often seem to see ‘boxes of votes’ just miraculously appear, 90% of which are in the dems favor, during all these recounts?
It’s not a recount. It’s the original count. What happens are projections eventhough absentee ballots are still to be counted. Additionally larger metropolitan areas take longer to role in all of their ballots again accounting for absentee ballots. Then depending on the state people who submit provisional ballots have a time frame (A day or two) to validate their ID.
I don’t think I’d brag about it being the original count 3 days after the vote. To answer your original question there is nothing you can do to give anyone confidence. It’s too late. Arizona officials should have run an honest election. Arizona’s in the same sewer with Florida now. A corrupt election stinks worse than rotten fish heads.
Even though the logistics are difficult, I’ll only have confidence in our elections when 100% of Federal Office elections require 1) a proof of Citizenship at the time of registration, with a verification [form delivered to the address on record and returned with a notarized signature] or re-registration required no more than 1 year prior to each Presidential election, 2) each voter having to produce a government issued photo ID on which the information matches the registered voters’ information on file prior to being allowed to cast a ballot.
i understand that these requirements will create gnashing of the teeth and myriad lawsuits by the Demoncrat operatives; but it would insure that the elections were far less vulnerable to fraud. REMEMBER, voting is a Privilege of Citizenship and means to continue our Constitutional Republic, not a means to overthrow our Constitutional Republic.
[It’s not a recount. It’s the original count. What happens are projections eventhough absentee ballots are still to be counted. ]
Lenard. How can we be certain, they are legit ballots though, if these boxes, just keep ‘getting found’? WHERE IS THE CHAIN OF CUSTODY ensuring the box got sealed after the ballots were counted? Where’s the proof, that none have been tampered with?
wakeforest, who needs RUSSIANS to “interfere” in our elections when we have DEMOCRATS CHEATING their sorry fannies off with bogus “found” ballots, illegals voting, dead people voting, etc. With all the damned voter fraud by the CONNIVING Commucrats, it’s a wonder ANY Republican ever manages to win an election! I guess they allow a few RINOS–who are nothing more than DEMOCRATS in sheep’s clothing–to win once in a while, because they know they will throw in and vote with them anyhow, and won’t do anything to stop their COMMUNIZING our country and “fundamentally transforming” us into a Third World hellhole and VASSAL STATE for the globalists.
This is why we need
A) VOTER ID!
B) a complete clensing of all voter rolls, to ensure only those LIVING, who are US Citizens and who are NOT registered in multiple states, stay on the voter registration rolls.
and C) DO AWAY with these bloody mail in ballots, which is imo where a lot of this shenanigans come from.
demon-craps and leftists are turning America into a third world s****hole …………….. Corruption , Fraud , Illegal Aliens voting .
What a mess . The destruction of America .
Russian collusion and Democrats are synonymous when referring to elections.
I am embarrassed for Arizona…. but I’m from NJ so…
how can outright scum like Menendez and Sinema run, let alone get votes…. this is just sickening
If an election is close enough, and valuable enough, the Democrats will commit any crime necessary to steal it. That is happening here, and in the two crucial campaigns in Florida.
Newly counted ballots? Where did they come from? isn’t anyone looking at this as if it were fraud? Isnt there a board of elections, an attorney general- someone-in charge of this? This is outrageous.
Well, in Florida there is some black woman who has been CAUGHT numerous times destroying Republican ballots, “manufacturing” Democrat ones, etc, in charge of “verifying” election results in Broward County.
IF she’s been caught, charged and convicted, WHY THE HELL IS SHE NOT IN JAIL!?!?!?!?!?
How the hell, is she even let anywhere NEAR a voter election booth, let alone the main voter HQ??
I believe this same Demoncrat operative in Broward Co., FL is the same individual who was involved in the 2000 Presidential race of “hanging chad” fame. Her methodology is the same, anyway: count all the ballots your accomplices have manufactured and which the illegal aliens cast illegally, until the Demoncrat has enough to edge out the will of the Citizen voters.
What’s going on in FL is also going on here in AZ. Banana Republic vote counting and ballot manufacturing. These are Federal elections. FBI needs to come in here and in FL and treat these Democrat precincts as crime scenes.
This is why i agree with a suggestion i saw someone make yesterday.
DO AWAY WITH ALL these ballots, especially all the found ones. AND JUST DO A bloody re-vote. Have FEDERAL Marshals there, to ensure the sanctity of the votes being re-cast.
Al Franken has an unusually large trunk this time, and boy, he sure gets around.
Funny how none of these suddenly found ballots in various elections ever turn out to be Republican votes. Gee, what a coincidence.
Yeah, a real head scratcher.
The Demoncrats will lie, cheat, steal, and destroy our Republic if those satanic methods will gain them or allow them to keep power over the Citizens of The United States of America. It’s time for the DoJ, under our acting AG, to begin stepping into all these attempts to steal votes from the Citizens and force the lawsuits to the US SC. If the several states will not enforce their own laws regarding the conduct of elections, then it’s time for the DoJ to enforce those actual state laws.
If those ballots weren’t cast in accordance with existing AZ law, they should have already been disqualified and if paper, shredded.
YJ772, I can understand why the conniving Leftist LOONS of the Commucrat Party do this stuff–STEALING an election is the ONLY way they can win one, after all, because NOBODY with any sense is going to vote for a power-hungery, corrupt, CROOKED Commucrat!
What I DON’T understand is why the damned GUTLESS Republicans just stand by and WATCH them do it, and let them get AWAY with it, time after time, without EVER challenging what they are doing! Like this “found” ballot crap. THAT is BS if I ever saw it! FOUND my foot–they were freshly MANUFACTURED to help them STEAL the election! If these ballots were collected and/or transported outside the officially sanctioned procedures, then they should be THROWN OUT as suspect. PERIOD. This, “Oh, we found sacks and sacks of ballots in the trunk of somebody’s car” just does NOT cut it–are we a Republic based on the rule of law, or a BANANA REPUBLIC where the elections are SO dishonest they are a damned joke?
You answered your own question.
ITS BECAUSE THEY ARE gutless.
Any votes not counted or tallied within 6 hours of the polls closing should be discarded. And the mail-in voting scam needs to be put to rest.
Not exactly true. Absentee ballots from service men stationed overseas sometimes arrive late, and those need to be included in the results.
Yeah, but if they can’t manage to dump them OVERBOARD enroute, the conniving Dems usually manage to find SOME excuse to avoid counting those absentee ballots from overseas military in the official election results–because they KNOW most of the military is going to vote Republican!
BUT we often hear, how ‘since the military is often heavily in republican favor’, their mail in ballots, often disappear..
If you are voting for Democrats at this point you are an idiot.
Well, looks like the fix is in. Even tyrants can be correct. Consider the words of Joe Stalin, “It’s not who votes that count, it’s who counts the vote.”
Quoting Capt Louis Renault “I’m shocked, shocked there is cheating by Democrats “. They always count the Dead Democrat and Illegal Alien votes last.
The longer it takes to “count” the votes, the MORE “lost” ballots they will find. Funny, but those “found” ballots NEVER favor the Republican candidates–ONLY the Democrats!
IT’s no longer funny, but Scandelous.
How come, when the Democrats demand a recount? That the one who was ahead never ends up gaining a greater lead?
rest assured that the “recount” will bring all the votes necessary to make a win for the loser! I have not commented before and I will not do so again, for I plainly see that what I have been reading about google is true!
Florida and now AZ too? In CA all the inland rurals voted Cox, the coastal cities went Newsom, so we are once again in grave danger. In the West, folks . . . it ain’t the economy . . . it’s THE BORDER . . . !
Semper Fortis . . . !
(And I voted for JFK 1st time as a D-now R)
Supposedly it’s also happening in georgia.
Remember, the Demoncrats realize that they are in an all-out war with President Trump’s remaking of the United States Supreme Court and the lower Federal Courts through placing Constitution Following Justices and Judges into those vacancies. They also understand that as long as the Senate is Republican, they will see their power, historically exercised via judicial fiat, continue to erode. That is why they’ve pulled out all the Demonic tricks they can think of, hoping to prevent a solid Republican controlled Senate. They tried desperately to prevent Kavanaugh’s elevation to the US SC and even though they peeled away a couple of RINOs, they failed when one of “theirs” voted for Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a means to obtain re-election. Since Wednesday evening, they are even more desperate with the indications that RBG’s health is quickly failing. A 6-3 majority of Constitution Following Justices will doom their [and their OWG masters’] plans for the destruction of our Constitutional Republic for at least 2 more decades.
YJ772 I have read that Democrats are SO hellbent on keeping Darth-Vader Ginsburg’s ROTTING CORPSE on the Supreme Court that many have even signed up to be ORGAN DONORS to supply any organ she needs. Anybody who thinks these VERMIN are NOT determined to co-opt our LEGALLY-ELECTED government and get power and control over the rest of us–no matter WHAT they have to do to accomplish it–hasn’t been paying attention.
They are DESPERATE, DERANGED, and COMPLETELY out of control LOONY at this point, and if they ever DO get back into power, you can count on two things:
1. They will see to it that we can NEVER vote them out of power again and
2. Those of us who don’t buy into their Leftist LOON ideology will be sent to SLAVE LABOR CAMPS (AKA “Re-education Centers” and either worked or starved to death, or BOTH, for the “sin” of daring to disagree with them and their TOXIC ideology.
I FULLY believe this is their intention, and WHY they are SO desperate to get in control of the government! It’s clear the “Democrat” Party is DEAD, and HAS been, for some time now. It has been co-opted and “fundamentally transformed” into a nest of conniving COMMUNISTS and assorted OTHER Leftist LOONS who HATE the idea that the rest of us actually have some say in how our government is run.
And unlike us mere peons, all the normal rules for making organ donations/transplants, will most likely get thrown to the way side..
Of COURSE Sinema “took the lead,” and the damned conniving Commucrats will CONTINUE to conveniently “find” ballots that coincidentally only add to the DEMOCRAT vote total until she WINS. SMH.
And that’s the thing. WE ONLY EVER see these sort of recounts, when it FAVORS dems. If they are the the winners, you rarely if ever see a recount called for, to try and overturn it to get a conservative win..
Now that we have a new AG who we can actually find – maybe he will get involved. If I were the AG I’d be all over it.
Emigrant voters are a big problem in AZ, and not just from south of the border, but from the west; ea. too many of retires nutz from Gaylapornia have retired in AZ
BE READY WHEN HE COMES
Sinema = another socialist democrat!
So how many precincts have more ballots cast than they have registered voters?
Since i see no one pushing to investigate that, we’ll probably never know.
And has now stolen it “legally” — not by salespitch, but by “forcibly-extended voting” (which can only be done in US, by Demoncruds).