Split-ticket voters cast ballots in Arizona, but that’s not evidence of election fraud, as some social media posts claim.
in the post doesn’t show U.S. Senate election results in Arizona; it shows U.S. House of Representatives election results there. Six Republican candidates in Arizona won seats in the House.From there, you can also toggle between the U.S. Senate race and the governor race.Image shows Arizona gubernatorial candidate and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in the room where ballots were being counted in Maricopa County.A Democrat also prevailed in the Senate race. Incumbent Sen.
But more voters didn’t cast a ballot for Kelly’s opponent, Republican Blake Masters, than they did for Lake, as the Instagram post suggests. Masters received about 1.18 million votes, while Lake received about 1.25 million votes. with 55.8% of the vote, than for incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, who received fewer votes than Abbott and beat Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke more narrowly, with only 50.9% of the vote.that split-ticket voters in 2022 played an"outsized role in critical midterm contests" with the potential to decide final results in close Senate races in Georgia and Arizona.
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