Every ballot tabulator in Maricopa County’s 2022 election failed to meet Election Assistance Commission (EAC) standards, with all 444 machines experiencing ballot reading errors exceeding the allowable .2 percent error rate, according to a video released by We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA), led by Shelby Busch. Despite litigation from Kari Lake, courts declined to order a new election.
The WPAA video highlights widespread issues with printers and tabulators during Arizona’s 2022 election, which saw significant tabulator misreads. Busch and her co-host Bryan Blehm, who previously represented Kari Lake in an election lawsuit, interviewed Dr. Walter Daugherity, a senior lecturer emeritus for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M, who graduated from Oklahoma Christian University with a degree in mathematics, and then later earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.
Daugherity, who worked with WPAA before on the 2022 election, and served as a witness on Lake’s and State Senator Mark Finchem (R-Buckeye)’s lawsuit over voting machines, said he became interested in the issue after analyzing Pima County’s 2020 election where he found that “nine or 10 precincts had more votes than registered voters.” He found the same thing after investigating Maricopa County, he said.
The professor said there is “almost zero percent transparency [with the machines].” He explained, “All we really know now is that ballots go into the machine and results come out, but we have no idea what goes on in between.” He said there should only be “100 lines of code” to read a ballot, not “millions.”
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