Republican voters were forced to wait in extremely long lines, turned away from the polls, or told to deposit their ballots in the questionable "Box 3" for misread ballots.
Lake told The Arizona Sun Times, "We took the sanctions briefing ordered by the AZ SCT and flipped it into a request for reconsideration of the 35K ballot injection issue at Runbeck." Lake said in her response that she wanted the court to consider the filing a "Motion for reconsideration of the Court's denial of review on this chain-of-custody issue." She was referring to her claim that 35,563 early ballots showed up at Maricopa County's third-party ballot processing company, Runbeck Election Systems.
" Lake laid out the problems discovered, revealing a lack of chain of custody for the 35,563 "early ballots injected into the election at Runbeck.
"the number of early ballots recorded on the Runbeck Receipt of Delivery forms dated November 8-9, 2022, totaled 263,379 ballots.
" In contrast, there were "298,942 Election Day early ballots recorded on the Runbeck Scan Receipts, that is a discrepancy of 35,563 more ballots scanned than ballots received.
Maricopa County admitted in its answering brief that it didn't count the ballots before delivering them to MCTEC. Lake asked the court not to uphold "the lower court's rewriting the clear requirement mandated in the Election Procedure Manual to count and record the number ballots retrieved from each drop box when opening the secure containers in which the ballots arrive at MTEC, to allow, instead, counting ballots elsewhere, long after opening the secure containers.
Hobbs accused Lake of only bringing up the inserted ballots late into the legal process in her petition for review with the Arizona Supreme Court, but Lake said that was "flatly false.
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