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Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: I assume everyone is watching Arizona as the great Kari Lake’s easy election win is slowly, yet systematically, being drained away from her, and from the American people. This is a very sad thing to watch. Mail in Ballots, long election counts, many day elections, machines that very few people understand, massive counting …

The Associated Press reports: The nation’s last undecided race for governor got even closer Sunday as Democrat Katie Hobbs’ lead shrank against Republican Kari Lake in the race to lead Arizona, but it was too early to call. Hobbs led by 26,000 votes, a 1 point margin, down about 10,000 votes from a day earlier. Lake has never led in …

Reuters reports: Waving flags and religious symbols, the crowd of nearly 100 positioned themselves at the entrance to the Maricopa County Tabulation and Elections Center, which was under heavy security. Many in the group echoed Trump’s unfounded claim that he lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud, as they called for the military to intervene in Arizona’s election. Some …

“Voting should not be as simple as ordering an Amazon package because there’s a lot more at stake with what you should be considering when you cast your ballot. “You want to see a ‘threat to democracy?’ It’s what we’re watching in Arizona right now. As we don’t know whether people are cheating or not. “But all I know is …

Arizona Central reports: Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake stoked fears of mail-in ballots. Now she’s taunting officials for not counting them fast enough after a record number of people held onto their mail-in ballots until Election Day. Lake accused election workers of deliberately slowing counts and holding back results, commenting in social media posts and in interviews on conservative news …

ABC News reports: Senate nominee Blake Masters released a statement on Saturday indicating that he would decline to concede until all the votes were counted in his race against Sen. Mark Kelly (D). Several outlets, including NBC and The Associated Press, called the race for Kelly on Friday night. Masters has publicly denied the results of the 2020 presidential election, …

NBC News reports: Republican Mark Finchem, a prominent election denier, has lost to Democrat Adrian Fontes in the race for Arizona secretary of state race, NBC News projects. Fontes, a former top elections official for Maricopa County, will succeed Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor. Finchem was among a host of GOP candidates for statewide …

The New York Times reports: Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona won a tough campaign for re-election on Friday, The Associated Press reported, defeating his Trump-backed Republican rival, Blake Masters, to put Democrats within one seat of retaining control of the Senate. Mr. Masters, a venture capitalist and political newcomer who embraced former President Donald J. Trump’s lie that the 2020 …

The Associated Press reports: Democrats padded their narrow leads in key Arizona contests on Thursday, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor were still too early to call with about a fifth of the total ballots left to be counted. Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly led Republican Blake Masters by 5.6 percentage points, while Democrat Katie Hobbs had a much …

“Are you new covering this race? Because we have talked about this before. I’ve answered this question. I’m going to not only be the governor of Arizona for four years, I’m going to do two terms. I’m gonna be your worst freaking nightmare for eight years, and we will reform the media as well. We are going to make you …

Media Matters reports: Right-wing media personalities and activists are spreading misinformation on social media about the reliability of voting machines in Maricopa County, Arizona, as voters go to the polls on Election Day. Local affiliate ABC15 reported that poll workers were having an issue with a vote tabulation machine at the Phoenix central library, and the polling place had temporarily …

The Washington Post reports: For years, the chair of Arizona’s Republican Party has led attacks on this swing state’s early voting system, warning without evidence that mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes are insecure and unreliable. Kelli Ward urged her followers to instead “wait in line & vote in person.” Then, last Tuesday, she posted a photo of herself smiling …

Reuters reports: Election workers in Arizona’s most fiercely contested county faced more than 100 violent threats and intimidating communications in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterms, most of them based on election conspiracy theories promoted by former President Donald Trump and his allies. The harassment in Maricopa County included menacing emails and social media posts, threats to circulate personal information online …

The Daily Kos reports: Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake called for repealing the Affordable Care Act at a campaign event on Monday, bringing up an issue all but forgotten by her Republican Party. “We need a red wave, and we need to overturn Obamacare and come up with something better,” Lake said at a campaign event in Scottsdale. Her comments …

NBC News reports: The order, issued by U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi, prohibits Clean Elections USA from “openly” carrying weapons or “visibly wear body armor” within 250 feet of drop boxes. Liburdi’s order also bars the group’s members from taking photos, recording, following or yelling at voters within 75 feet of drop box locations. Furthermore, he told the group’s founder, …

The New York Times reports: The Libertarian candidate running for Senate in Arizona — who had threatened to play spoiler in the closely watched race — is dropping out and endorsing Blake Masters, the Republican nominee. The decision, announced on Tuesday, gives Mr. Masters a lift heading into the final week as he seeks to unseat Senator Mark Kelly, the …

NBC News reports: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) leads Republican challenger Blake Masters by 6 points in the state’s Senate race, new polling shows. A New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday found Kelly with 51 percent to Masters’ 45 percent, a lead that may signal hope for Democrats to secure the state just over a week until November’s midterm elections. …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county where watchers have shown up armed and in ballistic vests, saying to do so could violate the monitors’ constitutional rights. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi said the case remained open and that the Arizona Alliance for Retired …

The New York Times reports: As a combative Arizona governor’s race ticked down toward Election Day, the Phoenix police said Wednesday that they were investigating a burglary at the campaign headquarters of the Democratic candidate, Katie Hobbs. Phoenix police officers responded to a burglary call on Tuesday afternoon, said Sgt. Phil Krynsky, a spokesman for the department. Items were taken …

NBC News reports: Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to prevent her phone records from being disclosed to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot. The state GOP chair and her husband, Michael Ward, were among 14 of 84 so-called alternate electors subpoenaed earlier this year by the House Jan. 6 committee, citing …