Trump says to redo the Arizona election due to numerous voting issues in Maricopa County!

PHOENIX, Arizona (PNN) - November 23, 2022 - President Donald Trump suggests that Arizona redo its 2022 elections after a memo revealed widespread problems at voting sites in Maricopa County on Election Day.

“This Election was a disgrace,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on November 22. “They should at minimum redo the Arizona Election,” Trump added, pointing to the memo written by attorney Mark Sonnenklar, who was one of 11 roving attorneys working with the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) Election Integrity program in Maricopa County.

According to the memo, 72 of the 115 voting centers the attorneys visited, or 62.61%, witnessed “material problems”.

The long lines negatively affected GOP candidates on Election Day, according to the memo.

“Because Republican voters significantly outnumbered Democrat voters in the county on Election Day, such voter suppression would necessarily impact the vote tallies for Republican candidates much more than the vote tallies for Democrat candidates,” Sonnenklar added.

Additionally, Sonnenklar disputed claims by county officials that printer/tabulator problems were resolved as of 3:00 p.m. local time and that their impact was insignificant.

“Collectively, I and the other 10 roving attorneys also reported that voters had to wait in significant lines at 59 of the 115 vote centers we visited (51.3%). In many cases, voters had to wait 1-2 hours before they received a ballot for voting,” Sonnenklar wrote.

He added, “It is certainly safe to assume that many voters refused to wait in such lines, left the vote center, and did not return to vote later.”

In response to Trump’s comments, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake took to Twitter to thank the president.

“It was nothing short of mass disenfranchisement for the entire Arizona First slate and the people of Arizona,” Lake added.

Last week, Democrat Katie Hobbs - who refused to recuse herself as secretary of state and therefore controlled the vote count in her favor - declared victory in the race, but Lake has not conceded.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Elections Integrity Unit sent a letter to Maricopa County officials demanding answers to “myriad problems” that voters in the county had to deal with on Election Day.

After the letter was sent, Lake told the Daily Mail that she “will become governor”.

“The way they run elections in Maricopa County is worse than in banana republics around the world,” Lake said.

On November 21, Lake posted a video on Twitter, saying that “whistleblowers are coming forward” about voting issues on Election Day in Maricopa County and her attorneys are “working diligently to gather information.”

Also on Tuesday, the Republican nominee for Arizona Attorney General, Abe Hamadeh, and the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit contesting preliminary election results, alleging that election officials had mismanaged the midterm election.

Democrat Kris Mayes supposedly led Hamadeh by just 510 votes, a margin that has triggered a recount under state law.

“Arizonans demand answers and deserve transparency about the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the General Election by certain election officials,” Hamadeh wrote on Twitter about the lawsuit. “I will not stop fighting until all voters receive justice. See you in court.”

Currently, two counties in Arizona - Mohave County and Cochise County - have ruled that they will delay certification of the midterm election results.