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FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz. An Associated Press investigation has found county election officials throughout Arizona have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud from last year's presidential election that require review by local prosecutors. The findings undermine claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies that widespread fraud is to blame for his loss in .
An Associated Press investigation has found county election officials throughout Arizona have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud from last year's presidential election that require review by local prosecutors. The findings undermine claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies that widespread fraud is to blame for his loss in Arizona. In this Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 file photo, Arizona election staff, other state officials and election observers from the political parties, including Dr. Kelli Ward, top middle, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, and Steven Slugocki, far right, chair of the Maricopa County Democratic Party, participate in a ballot adjudication test on a computer screen as the Maricopa County Elections Department conducts a post-election logic and accuracy test for the general election in Phoenix. County election officials throughout Arizona have found less than 200 cases of potential voter fraud from the 2020 presidential election that require review by local prosecutors, according to an Associated Press investigation. County election officials throughout Arizona have found less than 200 cases of potential voter fraud from the 2020 presidential election that require review by local prosecutors, according to an Associated Press investigation. (e)

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FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz. An Associated Press investigation has found county election officials throughout Arizona have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud from last year's presidential election that require review by local prosecutors. The findings undermine claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies that widespread fraud is to blame for his loss in Arizona. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
BOB CHRISTIE
Fri, January 14, 2022, 3:36 PM
PHOENIX (AP) — A review of potential voter fraud cases in the 2020 general election in Arizona's second-largest county ended Friday with an announcement by prosecutors that none of the 151 cases they reviewed merited criminal charges.

The findings in Pima County provide yet another official rebuttal of former President Donald Trump's claims that voter fraud led to his loss in Arizona and other battleground states.

The announcement by the Pima County Attorney's Office closes the book on more than 2/3 of all the cases of potential voter fraud that were being reviewed by election officials and prosecutors across Arizona.

Pima County Attorney Laura Conover said that while prosecutors found cases where voters knowingly submitted more than one ballot, "there is little to no evidence that they acted with the awareness that their actions would or could result in multiple votes being counted.

“What our investigation revealed was the genuine confusion about the electoral process, particularly relating to mail-in and provisional ballots, and the genuine fear, for a variety of reasons, that their initial vote would not count” Conover said in a statement.

No voter had more than one ballot counted, Conover said.

An Associated Press investigation found fewer than 200 cases of potential fraud in Arizona had been identified until last week, when elections officials in the state's most populous county, Maricopa, said they had discovered 38 potential voting fraud cases during an exhaustive review of 2.1 million ballots. Those cases were sent to the state attorney general's office for review and possible prosecution.

Those include five voters identified as having voted in more than one county, and six people may have voted twice in Maricopa County. The county report also found 27 cases where ballots were counted that were cast by people who died before they were returned in the mail; those were referred to the state attorney general for more investigation and possible prosecution.

The AP review has now found that across Arizona's 15 counties, the total number of potential voter fraud cases from the 2020 presidential election, including Pima County's 151 now-closed cases, sat at 230 out of 3.4 million ballots cast statewide. Maricopa County county is reviewing another 100 cases involving people who died close to the election but still cast ballots.

Only 10 Arizona cases have so far led to criminal charges.

An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election. The review was completed before Maricopa County found its 38 new cases.

Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast for president. The disputed ballots represent just 0.15% of his victory margin in those states.

The cases could not throw the outcome into question even if all the potentially fraudulent votes were for Biden, which they were not, and even if those ballots were actually counted, which in most cases they were not.

Pima County, home to 1.1 million residents and the city of Tucson, identified by far the most cases of potential voter fraud than any other Arizona county. That's because the Pima County Recorder’s Office has a practice of referring all cases with even a hint of potential fraud to prosecutors for review, unlike the state’s 14 other county recorders.

Pima County officials forwarded 151 cases to prosecutors out of slightly more than 520,000 ballots cast for president. They did not refer 25 others from voters over age 70 because there was a greater chance those errors — typically attempts to vote twice — were the result of memory lapses or confusion, not criminal intent, an election official said.

Deputy recorder Pamela Franklin told the AP in July that the county saw an unusually high number of people who appeared to have intentionally voted twice, often by voting early in person and then again by mail. In Arizona, where nearly 80% of voters cast ballots by mail, it’s not unusual for someone to forget they returned their mail-in ballot and then later ask for a replacement or try to vote in person, she said. But this pattern was new.

Franklin noted several factors at play, including worries about U.S. Postal Service delays. In addition, Trump at one point encouraged voters who cast their ballots early by mail to show up at their polling places on Election Day and vote again if poll workers couldn’t confirm their mail ballots had been received.

Friday's announcement from the county's elected prosecutor said the cases were reviewed by her election law and fraud units. About a third of the 151 cases were selected for extensive investigation. They involved 23 Republican voters, 15 Democrats and 13 with no party preference.

Prosecutors were trying to determine if the voters who cast more than one ballot did so knowingly and committed a felony. But prosecutors found no cases where voters intended to have both ballots counted.

“Thus, without fraudulent intent, there is no substantial likelihood of conviction of any of the voters investigated in these incidents,” Conover's statement said.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

You realize that most of 'em live by George Constanza's standard...."Just remember...It's not a lie if you believe it."

RobertV2

This is an excellent post (because the information in it is so relevant), although the formatting is off: the first part of it has several repeats, as though your copy-pasting wasn't working right.

The content of the post illustrates how detailed attention is put onto potential cases of voter fraud.

Also, I found it gratifying that those who come closest to committing voter fraud, or actually commit it, tend to be Republicans. For example, the article you posted says "About a third of the 151 cases were selected for extensive investigation. They involved 23 Republican voters, 15 Democrats and 13 with no party preference."

Michael10

Yep, but a lie is still a lie and the truth is still the truth, there are no half truths.

JW

This article is a rehash of an article published in July 2021 by the same leftist writer.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-07-16/ap-few-arizona-voter-fraud-cases-undercut-trumps-claims

It's not new or relevant.

Michael10

6 months don't make the story any less true. Fact is you guys will grasp at any anything true or not and scoff at anything the goes against your already made up minds. Republicans are delusional and will jump at any false information that comes across to try and back your story but you STILL have no credible proof to back the big lie.

Rose42

Excellent example of George Costanza’s belief in action. Like most hyper partisans left or right you try and paint everyone with the same brush

Trump lost, Biden won and America lost again. Sad times. Unfortunately since Biden is doing so poorly his apologists want to keep focussing on trump. We will never move forward that way.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

Associatedd Press Investigations?...{ isn't that much like the fox, guarding the Hen House?}...

Isn't that like asking Bath House Barry, to reveal his "bosom buddies" from the Chicago bath houses, & HIS NEFARIOUS DRUG BACKGROUND??

Like asking the FBI, to investigate the demoncrats? ? ?

BOY!....ARE YOU DEMONCRATS GULIBLE!....

Michael10

Think you're painting with a pretty wide brush there yourself Rose. I've voted in both directions so hyper partisan is a pretty strong use of terms. trump keeps the focus on himself with his lies and his past actions but the courts seem to be catching up with him.

Just because I'm not attacking Biden like the right on this don't mean I think he's a great president but at least he's not trying to take my vote and toss it out like trump, that was a much sadder day for this country. Biden's mistakes can be fixed, if trump had his way he'd be ruling this country till his death and that to me is a much greater danger to our freedom.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

151 votes, huh? Wow, that's a lot of votes.

How does that compare with the more than 10,000 votes mailed to Nevada from former residents that moved out of state?

Compilation: Evidence of Election Fraud Against Trump Voters, With Sources
It is almost too much to keep track of. The following is a running partial list of evidence, with notes. As usual in news, early reports are the most accurate before the spin machine gets hold of it and misrepresents the story. We recommend that when you do your own research to confirm these, use less-censored DuckDuckGo as a search engine.

Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, says “fraud is taking place” in key states. The chairman of the FEC is nominated by the president and confirmed by a vote of the US Senate.


* The Parallel Vote Dumps 100% for Biden in Michigan and Wisconsin, Two Critical Swing States, at Around the Same Time.

Although a 130,000-plus vote jump 100% vote jump for Biden which puts him in the lead might be explained away once, what are the chances of it happening twice, in two critical swing states, at about the same time frame very early in the morning? Although major media have struggled with “debunks” of two charts confirmed as authentic by FiveThirtyEight, none are remotely adequate. The charts are below.

* 6,000 votes erroneously flipped to Biden by precinct using Dominion vote-counting machines, Antrim County Michigan, before being caught by MI state representative. (Michigan Public Radio – “Republicans sound alarm on Antrim County election results.“) Michigan officials have changed the reason for this error, from numbers being accidentally transposed after being hand-entered from poll tapes into the central vote tabulator, to a failure to update the software. The difference one county made is small. The question is, in how many other counties using Dominion machines were votes flipped?

Status: So far no full statewide, public hand recount of ballots in Michigan. Michigan four-person state board has certified election before requested audit of Wayne County (Detroit). The certification comes after two Wayne County officials reversed course and voted to certify after initially refusing, but then said they regretted their votes to certify and that their families had been threatened. According to the Detroit Free Press, one of the Wayne County certifiers:

* A Wayne County, MI official observer says the top official at the Detroit vote counting center ignored her challenges of spoiled ballots and called them all for Biden, along with all other officials she confronted who were below him. Kristina Karamo also said she personally witnessed 30,000-plus ballots arriving at 3.a.m. , all for Biden. Because the top official of the entire vote counting center is involved, the testimony calls into question the integrity of the entire center’s results. Status: no investigation of observer’s testimony, no major media attention.

* An official monitor in the Wayne County vote counting center says she personally witnessed over 130,000 ballots being delivered between 2.a.m. and 4a.m., in a van accompanied by a Ferrari. This coincides with the time that Trump’s solid lead in MI vanished, in the wee hours of the morning. Status: no investigation of observer’s testimony, no major media attention.

Virginia: “It’s in the Code: Hanky-Panky in Virginia’s Votes” (The American Thinker) – Status: Allegations unaddressed by election officials, Virginia state GOP officials, or mainstream media. No “debunk” attempted.

Pennsylvania: At 11pm on election night Trump leads Biden by 700,000 votes, a 13% margin of victory. Then mail-in vote batches appear which give Biden the lead by the morning of November 6. On September 8, the PA Supreme Court ruled in advance that mail-in ballots with no postmarks or name and address can be counted. (Official ruling here)

* “[Michigan] Supreme Court has ruled that ballots without a postmark or proof of mailing will be presumed to be mailed by Election Day “unless a preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that it was mail after Election Day.”

The court also ruled that mail ballots couldn’t be rejected on signature comparisons.
Also, Just the News reports that there are practically zero rejected mail-in ballots compared to previous years, when a typical rejection rate might be one percent:

“Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania so far this year have been accepted at almost 30 times the rate predicted by historical rejection numbers, raising potential questions in a state in which Democratic challenger Joe Biden is maintaining a lead of just several thousand votes.”

* Also in PA: “Williams College Mathematician Flags up to 100,000 Ballots in Pennsylvania” (Epoch Times.) Federal Election Commission Chairman Trey Trainor said the professor is clearly qualified as an expert witness in almost any court in the United States and that the court would have to look at the information he has provided.

A dozen compelling allegations of voting irregularities in 2020 election
Evidence of Dominion Vote-Flipping Against Bernie Sanders in 2016 Boosts Trump Charges
Penn. Mail-In Vote Shows Formula Was Used to Erase Trump’s Overwhelming Lead on Election Night
Michigan Attorney General Attempts Election Interference by Intimidating Trump Lawsuit #DetroitLeaks Witness
Hammer and Scorecard EVIDENCE: The Moment the Vote-Flipping Occurs on CNN

Rose42

I was addressing you. No one else. You choose to fixate on trump - your choice alone.



You have blinders on my friend. I don’t attack Biden like others do - I simply recognize he is a weak man who can’t lead.

If trump really wanted to be a dictator there is so much more he could have done to that end. But people aren’t thinking

Michael10

Rose you aren't worth the time, you see what you want and judge words, you know nothing of me except the few words I type here and that isn't 1000th of who I am but you've sure got me figured out,,,right.

Rose42

Think about those words you just wrote.

JW

Jumping in here, Sport... you don't know what to think about anyone here except what they want you to think. However, based on what you apparently want us to think about you, you present yourself as shallow, one track minded and prone to projection. I have no idea if that is you or just what you play on the web, but it is enough to form an opinion.

Michael10

You think about them, I typed them.