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Of course, Kari Lake blames the Ohio blowout on election fraud [1]

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Date: 2023-08-09  

Gee, who saw that coming? Less than a day after Ohio voters roundly rejected the GOP’s attempt to dismantle democracy as we know it, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and full-time Mar-a-Lago resident Kari Lake pulled a page from her Maricopa County playbook.

You may remember that in the 2022 Arizona race Maricopa County, the largest population in the state by far, experienced dozens of voter machine problems. No voter was denied the right to cast a ballot, although it may have taken a bit longer to do so, while others filled in provisional ballots and left. Still, study after study showed the Maricopa County malfunction did not affect the total vote count, even though Lake used the machine glitch as her main argument in three appeals, all of which she lost.

Yesterday a reporter tweeted that one location in Cuyahoga Falls was experiencing a machine malfunction, and that’s all it took for the rightwing to go bananas.

[Anti-Muslim activist] Brigitte Gabriel told her 909,000 followers, 'WOW. Ballot scanners in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio have not been working for their special election today.'"

Kari Lake said the malfunction, “Reminds me of the jackasses who run Maricopa County elections when they sabotaged Election Day to stop the will of We the People. Wake up America.” (She just gave one of the “jackasses,” County Recorder Stephen Richer, more ammunition for his defamation lawsuit against her.) Lake “made it sound as if the machine issue was widespread,” while far-right OAN declared, “Something fishy was going on in Cuyahoga Falls.”

It’s gotta be something “fishy,” a conspiracy, not simply an error, especially when your side gets blown out. It didn’t take long for the election fraud conspiracy BS to take root in MAGA world. They needed some explanation for the drubbing Issue 1 took at the polls; clearly it can’t be that people hate a measure that destroys representative government!

What Lake and every other nutter failed to mention was that the malfunction occurred in one polling station in Cuyahoga Falls, causing about 20 voters to wait longer. The other 33 polling stations in the county experienced no problems, nor did the machines in Ohio’s other 87 counties.

In other words, of the hundreds of polling places in Ohio, one experienced a momentary machine malfunction, but that’s all it took for Kari Lake to remind everyone she’s still trying to overturn the 2022 Arizona vote, she’s maybe running for U.S. Senate against Rep. Ruben Gallego, she could be Trump’s VP pick if she never wastes an opportunity to screech about election fraud, and if Cuyahoga Falls wants to order a forensic audit, she knows just the Ninja to call.

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