GOP defeat marks another striking repudiation of Trump-style populism in U.S. midterm elections
Republican election denier Kari Lake will lose the Arizona governor’s election to Democrat Katie Hobbs, according to election projections, marking another striking repudiation of populist conservatism in the U.S. midterm elections.
Ms. Lake “should win by 11%,” Mark Finchem, the Republican who lost his bid to become Arizona’s secretary of state, said on Twitter Monday evening. “No way she lost,” he wrote. Ms. Hobbs is also Arizona’s sitting secretary of state, with responsibility for oversight of elections, and has refused calls by opponents to recuse herself from oversight of the vote.
They pointed in particular to a tweet sent just after 10 a.m. on election day by Kelli Ward, who chairs the Arizona Republican Party. It explicitly told voters not to put ballots in “Box 3″ if their ballots did not scan. That box was a secure backup, used to collect votes that could be tabulated later at a central location.
Still more issues emanated from conspiracy theories that raised doubt about the fast-drying felt-tip pens provided inside voting centres. One county candidate even suggested earlier this year that those pens “can insert votes.”
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