But Maricopa County official says even if that happened, it would not matter. The votes eventually would have been counted anyway, including those for Republican Kari Lake, who is challenging her loss for governor.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — An expert witness hired by Kari Lake's lawyers testified Wednesday he found ballots for the general election printed with the wrong size image.
Parikh, permitted by the court to examine some of the ballots, said he found a number of the sample were printed out to just 19 inches, leaving excess area along the borders. In a Twitter post, Lake said that was 48 of 113 examined ballots. If a 19-inch printed ballot would not be read by tabulators, as with all unreadable ballots, just like any others with things like stray marks or tears, would be manually duplicated by election workers into a new ballot that could be scanned. Parikh confirmed he had seen only the original ballots, not the duplicates.
But even if Lake can prove to Thompson that someone altered the settings, that, by itself, would not be enough for her to overturn the election results which show her losing to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes. The judge, in a pretrial ruling, said she also would have to show that the problems with printers"resulted in identifiable lost votes'' for Lake.
"Failure to maintain chain of custody presents a situation where ballots could be added,'' Honey testified."But ballots also could be removed.''
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