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A apical Maricopa County predetermination authoritative deed backmost astatine Arizona GOP gubernatorial campaigner Kari Lake connected Thursday implicit her accusations that predetermination officials are intentionally slowing down ballot counting successful the Grand Canyon State.
“Quite frankly, it is violative for Kari Lake to accidental these radical down maine are slow-rolling this erstwhile they’re moving 14 to 18 hours [a day],” Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates said astatine a property league connected Thursday.
The adjacent races for Senate and politician successful Arizona person yet to beryllium called arsenic of Friday afternoon, with officials saying they expect to proceed counting votes until “early adjacent week” owed to an influx of aboriginal ballots that were handed successful connected Election Day.
Lake — who has often called into the question the results of the 2020 predetermination — has accused Arizona predetermination officials of purposefully “dragging their feet” connected reporting results. The Republican campaigner is presently trailing Democrat Katie Hobbs by conscionable nether 27,000 votes.
“They’re slow-rolling the results, and they’re trying to hold the inevitable,” Lake told Newsmax connected Thursday. “We volition triumph this. I’m 100 percent definite of that.”
However, Gates slammed Lake implicit the proposition that they were delaying results.
“If [Lake’s] squad would person been paying attraction earlier this election, they would person heard america speech astir this implicit and implicit again — that we were not going to person results connected predetermination nighttime oregon adjacent the adjacent day, that it was going to instrumentality respective days.”
“Everybody needs to calm down a small bit, crook the rhetoric down,” helium added.
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