Arizona Republican won’t do her job unless there’s a redo of 2022 election she won: report
In Arizona, far-right Republican Kari Lake — who narrowly lost the state’s gubernatorial race to Democrat Katie Hobbs — has refused to concede and is vowing to fight the 2022 election results. And she isn’t the only one who is questioning the legitimacy of the 2022 midterms results in her state. Republican Liz Harris, who was elected to a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives, has vowed that she will not vote on any bills unless Arizona officials agree to “hold a new election immediately.”
KPNX News 12 Phoenix, an NBC affiliate, reports, “Despite winning her own election, Harris alleges that there were ‘clear signs of foul play’ which necessitated her demands. There has been no evidence of this.”
News 12 Phoenix adds, “‘Machine malfunctions’ were cited as one such sign. On Election Day, 60 of the 223 polling places in Maricopa County saw issues with their ballot printers, leading to some ballots not being counted immediately. The issue was resolved within a few hours, and election officials say that they were able to ensure that every legal ballot was successfully counted.”
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Harris has issued a formal statement on both Instagram and her campaign website.
“Although I stand to win my Legislative District race,” Harris declared, “it has become obvious that we need to hold a new election immediately. There are clear signs of foul play from machine malfunctions, chain of custody issues and just blatant mathematical impossibilities…. I call on all state legislators to join me in demanding a new election. I will now be withholding my vote on any bills in this session without this new election in protest to what is clearly a potential fraudulent election."
The station reports that this is not the first time that Harris has “been involved in trying to overturn the results of an election.”
“After losing to incumbents Jennifer Pawlik (D) and Jeff Weninger (R) in the 2020 general election, Harris began a ‘Grassroots Canvass Report’ to investigate baseless allegations of voting errors in order to decertify the results of both the state legislature and presidential elections,” according to News 12 Phoenix. “The report falsely claimed to have uncovered some 173,000 ‘lost’ votes and 96,000 ‘ghost votes’ in a private door-to-door canvassing effort, supposedly rendering the 2020 election in Maricopa County ‘uncertifiable.’ Maricopa County election officials and outside experts said Liz Harris used ‘quasi-science’ in her canvas of the 2020 election and her findings were ‘inaccurate.’”
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