Republican officials in Arizona found that 2% of the duplicate ballots the party was allowed to examine were changed to take votes away from President Trump.
“We got to examine 100 of them,” said Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward. “Guess what? We found two ballots that were changed: One was changed from Trump to Biden; one was just taken away from Trump — for no reason that we can find an explanation for.”
In today’s update, Chairwoman @kelliwardaz announces the findings from our investigation of 100 duplicate ballots, in which TWO votes were discovered to have been altered and removed from President @realDonaldTrump‘s total. pic.twitter.com/6Dg9zd2XGd
— Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) December 2, 2020
Ward called the findings “explosive news,” saying there was an attempt to steal the election from Trump.
“This is good news because those media propagandists who say there’s no evidence of fraud can now shut up,” Ward said. “The bad news is this looks like this election has been attempted to be stolen from President Trump.”
“And to remind you what a duplicate ballot is: It’s when there’s a damaged ballot or, for some reason, the machine cannot read a ballot,” Ward said. “So, then, election workers ‘recreate’ that ballot. They ‘duplicate’ it for the voter. And it’s either fed back into the machine or created electronically.”
The inspection came after Judge Randall Warner ruled that he would allow signatures from 100 ballot envelopes and 100 duplicate or reconstructed ballots to be inspected.
“I’m inclined to err on the side of transparency and air these things out,” Warner said.
Warner called for the inspection to be completed at the voting center and gave the GOP officials access to the scanned signatures on the computer.
“I don’t think you need a huge data sample to know whether there are irregularities or misconduct,” Warner said.
Warner set an evidentiary hearing for Thursday morning for Ward’s legal team to present the results of their inspection.
