Maricopa County ballot affidavit signatures

Kari Lake is in court today for the third and final day of her trial for her lawsuit contesting the stolen 2022 Midterm.

Lake is fighting Maricopa County’s failure to verify ballot affidavit signatures before Judge Peter Thompson after the Arizona Supreme Court remanded the claim.

The Gateway Pundit reported live on days one and two of the trial.

Damning evidence of at least one Maricopa County signature reviewer simply clicking through signature checks significantly faster than their colleague seated next to them was released before trial and shown to the judge by Lake’s attorneys.

The Gateway Pundit reported on another video showing the same Maricopa County employee failing to verify signatures and likely approving over 5,600 signatures in about two hours.

The person in the videos “verified” almost 27,000 signatures alone, which is 10,000 more than the margin of victory. The defense later claimed the individual was fired or removed from his level-one role.

However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, this individual was seen in his same role on Maricopa County’s cameras from October 17 to November 15. Who knows how many ballots he carelessly approved without comparison in the roughly one month he worked?

Maricopa County Claims Employee Was Removed After Kurt Olsen Plays BOMBSHELL Video of Signature Reviewer “Verifying” Signatures in LESS THAN 2 Seconds Each – Employee Seen Working Until The End of Signature Review

Over 274k ballot signatures were approved by Maricopa County signature reviewers in less than 3 seconds each. At least one individual had a 100% acceptance rate.

While attorneys for Maricopa County, Katie Hobbs, and Adrian Fontes claim the evidence shows they completed signature verification, it is impossible to compare and verify signatures in less than three seconds. Nobody can read and compare signatures or voter registration information so quickly.

According to trial testimony by Jacqueline Onigkeit, signature reviewers “were told to scroll down and make sure that we verify the present green affidavit with the past history affidavits.” Because of the massive number of rejected signatures, ballots were sent back to level one reviewers by direct supervisors and full-time County employees because they were “overwhelmed.” Onigkeit said they were “pressured” to approve these bad signatures.

Forensic document analyst Eric Speckin also testified yesterday that one cannot accurately verify signatures in two or three seconds, especially on such a mass scale as Maricopa County’s election.

The trial yesterday ended in the middle of Maricopa County’s direct examination of Maricopa County Election Director Rey Valenzuela. Lake’s attorneys will cross examine Valenzuela and give closing arguments today.

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When Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch teamed up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, it angered swaths of Americans on a fundamental level.

Up is not down, black is not white, and men are not women. A beer that tastes like swill giving tacit approval to the perversion of God’s natural order of creation was the final straw for many.

People were justifiably furious at Bud Light, and the subsequent boycotts have tanked sales, shaken up company leadership, and generally damaged the brand. Culturally, it was an unmitigated disaster the likes of which the retail world has seldom seen.

Now? There may be a grievous legal injury added to insult after Sens. Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn, a pair of fiery Republicans, formally opened an investigation into the Belgian brewing titan.

In a joint news release on Wednesday, it was announced that Cruz and Blackburn would be calling on “the beer industry’s self-regulatory body — the Beer Institute — to investigate whether Anhueser-Busch’s partnership with influencer Dylan Mulvaney violates the Beer Institute’s guidelines prohibiting marketing to underage individuals.”

Cruz and Blackburn are the ranking members of the Senate Commerce Committee and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, respectively.

In a letter calling on Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth to cut all ties with Mulvaney, the senators expressed concerns over “evidence showing that Dylan Mulvaney’s audience skews younger than the legal drinking age and that Mulvaney’s social media content appeals to young viewers.”

“We would urge you … to avoid a lengthy investigation by the Beer Institute by instead having Anheuser-Busch publicly sever its relationship with Dylan Mulvaney, publicly apologize to the American people for marketing alcoholic beverages to minors, and direct Dylan Mulvaney to remove any Anheuser-Busch content from his social media platforms,” the senators said.

“Second, we believe that Anheuser-Busch’s clear failure to exercise appropriate due diligence when selecting online influencers for its marketing efforts warrants detailed oversight by Congress.

“To that end, this letter includes a series of document requests that will help clarify how Anheuser-Busch vets its partnerships and how Anheuser-Busch failed in assessing the propriety of a partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.”

The letter then highlights some of the aforementioned evidence regarding Mulvaney’s fan base. The social media star has 1.8 million followers on Instagram and 10.8 million followers on TikTok.

Cruz and Blackburn noted that Mulvaney is known for a video series called “Days of Girlhood” documenting the “gender transition” for which he is famous. The series “received over 750 million views in less than 100 days,” the letter said, citing Mulvaney’s talent agency.

“The use of the phrase ‘Girlhood’ was not a slip of the tongue but rather emblematic of a series of Mulvaney’s online content that was specifically used to target, market to, and attract an audience of young people who are well below the legal drinking age in the United States.”

The letter points out that any “objective survey” of Mulvaney’s social media content “clearly presents a faux, pre-pubescent girl persona that is created and presented to specifically appeal to young viewers.”

Cruz and Blackburn may be pulling on a brilliant thread that many conservatives had not even thought of.

Nary was a voice asking “What about the children?” when the Mulvaney controversy first exploded, but now that Cruz and Blackburn have asked it, it opens a whole new can of worms for those cans of gross beer.

For Cruz, there’s a precedent for this kind of impermissible advertising. Just ask anyone who was addicted to nicotine in the ’80s and ’90s.

Appearing on Fox News, Cruz recalled the backlash to Joe Camel (the mascot of the cigarette brand Camel) convincing kids to smoke.

“Remember the whole Joe Camel thing?” Cruz asked. “This is the same thing here.”

“Remember the whole Joe Camel thing? This is the same thing here.”

— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is demanding an investigation into Anheuser-Busch, and claims Budweiser was “marketing to children” by having Dylan Mulvaney promote the beer pic.twitter.com/QBZ226ZxHK

— The Recount (@therecount) May 18, 2023

Cruz and Blackburn have given Anheuser-Busch until the end of the month to respond and provide documents showing what they did or did not know about Mulvaney’s target audience.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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