Last week at the “Save Arizona” rally, Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake made a startling revelation. She started by showing a picture of the “Heat Map” of Republican voter turnout located in the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC). The heat map was first disclosed by Richard “The People’s Pundit” Baris and reported on by UncoverDC (UDC).
Lake next showed a map of voting centers that experienced highest rejection rates of ballots being run through tabulators on Election Day 2022.
Post on the Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) Twitter account showing the Republican voter turnout heat map, voting center locations, and overlay.
When the two maps were overlaid, the results—though not completely unexpected, as Baris had alluded to it on his Inside The Numbers podcast—were stunning nonetheless.
A closer look at the map really tells the tale. The red “pins” represent the Voting Centers that had a 50% or higher ballot rejection rate with their tabulators. The blue pins represent locations with lower rejection rates but still experienced issues. The Voting Centers with the highest rejection rates almost entirely fall within the heaviest concreted Republican areas or just on the outskirts.
Since Rich Baris and UDC first broke the MCTEC heat maps story, a lot more information has come out—not much of it good for those running Maricopa County elections. In response to UDC’s article, Just The News (JTN) reached out to Maricopa election officials about the purpose and source for the heat maps.
A Maricopa County Elections Dept. spokesperson provided JTN with pictures, including one showing three separate heat maps, and explained:
“In the MCTEC hallway, we have a [Blue] Democratic In-Person Voter Turnout Map, a [Red] Republican In-Person Voter Turnout Map, and a [Purple] All Voter In-Person Turnout Map.”
Photo of MCTEC heat maps courtesy of Just The News
The Elections Dept. spokesperson went on to explain the Maricopa Recorder’s Office actually maintains an internal function to produce the maps stating,
“The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office has a Geographic Information System (GIS) team that makes all of the maps in-house. We use the turnout data by party for elections such as the Presidential Preference Election, which is a party-only election. We use the all-voter maps for future planning for Primary and General elections.”
The spokesperson for the Maricopa Recorder’s Office wasn’t on the same page, however. When contacted by JTN, that spokesperson explained:
“These hallway graphics do not serve a functional purpose, other than serving as a neat visual aid to voters who come to tour the facility. Please note that the Republican heat map is immediately adjacent to the Democratic heat map.”
So the Recorder’s Office supposedly maintains an internal team at taxpayer expense to collect and plot all the data just to produce nifty wall decorations? When later contacted about the conflicting statements, the Recorder’s Office spokesperson seemed to give JTN an equally nonsensical follow-up response.
“Later, when the recorder’s office was asked a clarifying question about the maps not being used to plan for future elections, the spokesperson reiterated that the maps in the hallway don’t serve a functional purpose, but then repeated the Elections Department’s explanation of heat maps being used for determining vote center locations.”
Perhaps Rick James has been moonlighting over at the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office.
There is another angle of the MCTEC heat maps story that has not been touched on very much. In addition to theoretically referencing the maps to know which Voting Centers should experience the 19-in ballot image on a 20-in ballot Election Day “hiccup,”—it must be remembered MCTEC is also Maricopa’s centralized tabulation center. As with other municipalities like Detroit, Philadelphia, and Fulton County (GA)—centralized vote-counting centers are a tactic used by the Left to weaken election integrity. It’s very difficult to pull off any effort to manipulate the final vote totals when votes are being counted at hundreds of local neighborhood voting precincts. But when ballots are sent to a single tabulation center, then it only takes a handful of bad actors to manage the process and pull off any widespread ballot stuffing/manipulation scheme.
Segment from One America News’ (OAN) coverage of a Georgia state legislature hearing into election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The video played during the hearing shows suitcases of ballots being pulled out from underneath a table in the Fulton County GA tabulation center on election night (Nov 3-4, 2020) by poll workers after telling Republican poll observers to go home for the evening.
MCTEC is the first stop for Early In Person & Drop Box ballots and where all ballots—besides those Election Day In Person ballots successfully run through tabulators at Voting Centers—would eventually be tabulated (e.g., where they finally get counted and added to the final vote totals).
Screenshot of a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Heather Honey and entered into evidence as part of the Lake vs. Hobbs election contest trial.
As open source investigator and supply chain expert witness Heather Honey testified to on the first day of the Lake v. Hobbs election contest trial, Maricopa County seemed to ignore Arizona election law and abandon any need to fill out most of the Chain of Custody (CoC) paperwork required for ballots arriving at or departing MCTEC on Election Day or afterwards. Adam Carter and Tracy Beanz also mentioned this was problematic during their livestream coverage of the trial.
As Ms. Honey detailed in the clip above, Maricopa failed to provide the Early Ballot Transfer Statements (marked Number 1 in the screenshot below) for Early In Person and DropBox ballots—coming from the precinct and drop box locations—into MCTEC on Election Day. They also failed to complete the Delivery Receipt Form (Number 2 in the screenshot below) as required by Arizona election law when the transport carriers were opened at MCTEC on or after Election Day. So Maricopa County has not, to date, provided any CoC documentation that could be used to determine exactly how many ballots MCTEC received or should have sent to the third-party vendor, Runbeck, for scanning and processing.
The gubernatorial election was stolen from Kari Lake without dispute. Along with that, Abe Hamedeh, Blake Masters and Mark Finchem also were the victims of a stolen election. Adam Laxalt and Jim Merchant in Nevada also had their elections stolen as well. Democrats do not win elections because they have policies the American people want, they win only by cheating.
2024 will have even more fraud. Democrats are totally dependent upon it.
Deplorable Me
2 years ago
This is why judges throw out election fraud cases quickly without seeing or hearing any of the evidence. They don’t want the truth to get out; then they’d have to do something about the fraudulent results.
Just like the Presidency in 2020, the Senate and Governor’s seats in Arizona was stolen through Democrat election fraud and they aren’t even trying to be coy about it. Just keep it out of the courts rely on the corrupt leftist Ministry of Propaganda to keep the facts buried from the general public.
For all the Democrat’s fake outrage over Georgia’s voter integrity laws, accusing them of voter suppression (which it has been proven it absolutely isn’t), it turns out Democrats actually like voter suppression and disenfranchisement. They hate the democratic process. They hate the people having their say.
Chain of custody issues are also a mainstay characteristic of Democrat handling of elections. Democrats cannot be trusted with ballots or an election. They are corrupt, lying thieves who can never resist an opportunity to steal from the public.
Democrats like to sit on their asses at home and let someone else cast their vote for them. Republicans prefer to get up off their asses and vote in person; it feels like participation. Democrats have contaminated both with fraud.
From State Farm Arena’s fake water main break to run off observers to manipulating ballots to make them fail to be counted in Maricopa country, the Democrats employ a wide range of fraudulent methods to counter the fact that the majority of the nation hates their ruinous policies. Democrats know they can’t keep their fraud completely hidden, due to the sheer magnitude of it required. They rely on once the facts are know, the corrective action is too messy to enact and the fact that most of their supporters are just fine with corruption and fraud as long as they benefit from it.
The gubernatorial election was stolen from Kari Lake without dispute. Along with that, Abe Hamedeh, Blake Masters and Mark Finchem also were the victims of a stolen election. Adam Laxalt and Jim Merchant in Nevada also had their elections stolen as well. Democrats do not win elections because they have policies the American people want, they win only by cheating.
2024 will have even more fraud. Democrats are totally dependent upon it.
This is why judges throw out election fraud cases quickly without seeing or hearing any of the evidence. They don’t want the truth to get out; then they’d have to do something about the fraudulent results.
Just like the Presidency in 2020, the Senate and Governor’s seats in Arizona was stolen through Democrat election fraud and they aren’t even trying to be coy about it. Just keep it out of the courts rely on the corrupt leftist Ministry of Propaganda to keep the facts buried from the general public.
For all the Democrat’s fake outrage over Georgia’s voter integrity laws, accusing them of voter suppression (which it has been proven it absolutely isn’t), it turns out Democrats actually like voter suppression and disenfranchisement. They hate the democratic process. They hate the people having their say.
Chain of custody issues are also a mainstay characteristic of Democrat handling of elections. Democrats cannot be trusted with ballots or an election. They are corrupt, lying thieves who can never resist an opportunity to steal from the public.
Democrats like to sit on their asses at home and let someone else cast their vote for them. Republicans prefer to get up off their asses and vote in person; it feels like participation. Democrats have contaminated both with fraud.
From State Farm Arena’s fake water main break to run off observers to manipulating ballots to make them fail to be counted in Maricopa country, the Democrats employ a wide range of fraudulent methods to counter the fact that the majority of the nation hates their ruinous policies. Democrats know they can’t keep their fraud completely hidden, due to the sheer magnitude of it required. They rely on once the facts are know, the corrective action is too messy to enact and the fact that most of their supporters are just fine with corruption and fraud as long as they benefit from it.