“Level Two Managers” Elect Katie Hobbs
by Joe Fried, CPA
When faced with something complicated or politically sensitive, some judges hide behind process arguments. That has already happened concerning the Kari Lake v. Katie Hobbs election complaint. Judge Peter Thompson of the Maricopa County Superior Court dismissed part of the case based on an ill-fitting process argument: laches (filing too late).
In early December, Kari Lake filed an election complaint comprising ten separate claims, but His Honor threw out several, including the strongest one: the claim that thousands of ballots were processed with mismatched signatures (complaint pg. 13). Judge Thompson ruled that Kari Lake was objecting to long-established procedures (and not to recent violations of those procedures), so she should have made her objections much sooner. His reasoning does not jibe with the facts.
The Kari Lake lawsuit correctly indicates that Arizona law (A.R.S. § 16-550) prescribes a two-step process for validating early ballots.
- The Recorder or the Recorder’s designee must “compare the signatures thereon with the signature of the elector on the elector’s registration record.” If there is a match, the ballot is accepted.
- “If the signature is inconsistent with the elector’s signature on the elector’s registration record, the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections shall make reasonable efforts to contact the voter, advise the voter of the inconsistent signature and allow the voter to correct…”
Based on the sworn statements of three whistleblowers, the two-step procedure prescribed by law was not followed. Instead of attempting to contact the voters to have them “cure” their signatures, the “level two managers” simply reversed the signature rejections of the level one workers or made them re-process the signatures until a different result was obtained.
Kari Lake states that Maricopa County had 32 employees performing signature verification and/or ballot “curing.” Three of the 32 workers were “whistleblowers” who made disturbing claims in sworn declarations. Here are some of the statements of Andy Myers, one of the three whistleblowers. His job was to “cure” signatures that did not seem to match registration records (complaint pg. 17):
“The math never added up. Typically, we were processing about 60,000 signatures a day. I would hear that people were rejecting 20-30%, which means I would expect to see 12,000 to 15,000 ballots in my pile for curing the next day. However, I would consistently see every morning only about 1000 envelopes to be cured. We typically saw about one-tenth of the rejected ballots we were told we would see.
The most likely explanation for this discrepancy is that the level 2 managers who re-reviewed the rejections of the level 1 workers were reversing and approving signatures that the level 1 workers excepted and rejected. …”
Myers concluded: “…the level 2 managers were changing about 90% of the rejected signatures to accepted.”
The other two whistleblowers made similar declarations, except they saw even higher rejection rates: 35 to 40%. Most of those rejected signatures were supposedly cured without contacting the voter. Whistleblower Yvonne Nystrom felt she was being pressured to approve signatures because they were being re-processed even though they had already been reviewed at all levels (complaint pg. 18):
“These 5,000 to 7,000 ballots had already been through the full level 1,2, and 3 processes and [had] been rejected. Therefore, I do not know why [we were] going through them again, and that is why it seemed that Celia wanted them approved.”
The third whistleblower, Jacqueline Onigkeit, seemed to suggest that the curing process was out of control (complaint pg. 19):
“In order to perform the curing process, we were given a batch of stickers to place on a ballot… One of the problems with the stickers was that nothing prevented a level 1, 2, or 3 worked (sic) from requesting a massive amount of ‘approved’ stickers and placing them on ballots. Again, observers did not watch any level 3 work and did not watch most of the level 2 work. Once stickers were placed on ballots, there was no record on the ballot or elsewhere to determine who placed the sticker there.”
The bottom line is that the two-step process prescribed in the Code was being ignored or abused. Instead of contacting voters (the second step in the process), level two managers just reversed the level one reviewers or forced them to keep repeating the first step. If that is the case, Katie Hobbs was not necessarily elected by the people of Arizona— rather, she was elected by “level two managers.”
In her response (pg. 9), Hobbs created a straw man: “This claim apparently rests on Plaintiff’s presumption that a voter’s ‘registration record’ is narrowly limited to a voter’s registration form….” However, there is no such presumption in the Lake complaint— stated or implied. Hobbs simply made that up and added the word “apparently” to soften the subterfuge.
The Hobbs legal team was probably “high-fiving” when they learned that Judge Thompson actually believed their little artifice. He bizarrely cited Kerby v. Griffin, 48 Ariz. 434, 444-46 (1936) as a basis for dismissing the claim (Under Advisement Ruling, pg. 7):
“[P]rocedures leading up to an election cannot be questioned after the people have voted, but instead the procedures must be challenged before the election is held.”
In other words, he accepted the Hobbs’ claim that Lake was quarreling with the established procedure for verifying signatures. If the judge had read the complaint more carefully, he would have realized that Lake was pointing out, based on the whistleblower statements, that the law had not been followed.
This ruling has greatly damaged the ability of Lake to win her case, and it raises concern regarding this judge’s ability to adjudicate the remaining claims fairly.
However, if Lake fails, let me be the first to say: Congratulations, “Level Two Managers”! You successfully elected the next governor of Arizona.
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Joe Fried is an Ohio-based CPA who has performed and reviewed hundreds of certified financial audits. He is the author of the new book, Debunked? An auditor reviews the 2020 election— and the lessons learned (Republic Book Publishers, 2022). It provides a comprehensive overview of irregularities that affected the 2020 election.
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This is good analysis.
Perhaps, a investigation into any communications between the “judge” and the Hobbs folks is in order. Sounds like the judge is ignoring the process which made the fraud possible.
And if Team Lake presented this prior to the election the judge would have ruled no standing.
You are absolutely right. It is a sick game they play.
Government will never admit to Fraudulent Elections. It looks like the Judge is looking to nail election people for crimes, but will do anything not to Declare the whole Election a Fraud, and thus change the outcome.
It’s going to be really hard to have Fair and Fraud Free Elections when people in Government are designing Fraud into Elections. In States where the Public can put up Ballot inituatives, we need The People to require In person Voting, a paper trail, and Strict Chain of Custody Rules along with a Hand counting of the Paper Ballots for Certification.
At the very least a mail-in or Drop Box Ballot should be observed by a Notary and be Notarized. That creates a Chain of Custody for the Signature. The Notary should then be required to keep an Election Log and the Ballots adjudicated via the Notary Logs which would have to be sent in prior to Election Day and a also by a Signature on File. This can even be done for people overseas as the Military and Embassies have Notaries. We need to make Election Fraud hard, if not near impossible to do. It looks like Politicians are trying to make it easier. It seems like we are inventing Fraud in today’s World. When was the last time you had to show an ID for Credit Card or Check transaction? I find it funny that in my senior years I have to show an ID to boy a beer or even Cough Syrup, but don’t need to for the purchase of thousands of dollars.
If you have Notaries check IDs and verify signatures to a Government ID it makes fraud a lot harder. If Notaries are notarizing “any” signature they could have their Notary Stamp revoked and be investigated for Fraud. We need to keep the Notaries honest too. At present, just calling a number for adjudication opens the pocess to fraud since one person can very literally verify hundreds of Ballots over the phone. You know there is Fraud when Adjudicators have “voter” phone numbers on speed dial.
You are right. It is not worth much to simply call a telephone number to verify the authenticity of the signature. But for this election, the folks in Maricopa did not even bother to do that.
Sunxi bing-fa Art of War
Chapter 3 Paragraph 18
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Eliminating Voter Fraud
1. All ballots either at the voting stations or mail in MUST HAVE A RIGHT OR LEFT THUMB PRINT on that paper ballot. Any ballot without thumb prints are automatically rejected.
2. If a person has only one thumb or no thumbs, a DNA blood drop is placed on the ballot.
3. Any person submitting a ballot for themselves via mail in ballot must also affix their thumb prints on such ballot, otherwise it will be automatically rejected.
4. Any person submitting a ballot for another person, besides the person casting the ballot, must also affix their thumb prints on the ballot.
5. All ballots from any voting Machine at the polling place, must be verified by the voter after they have voted and before submitting to the voting board.
6. A voter ballot COPY, is given to the voter at that time, after they have affixed their thump prints on the original ballot. Both copy and original ballot must have thumb prints.
7. The person who voted must stand by and witness while their thumb prints are verified by a thumb print machine.
8. Duplicate voting, out of state, out of county, unless it is a valid ballot must also have both thumb prints on the ballot.
9. Illegal enemy outlaws, and any person who is NOT eligible to vote, their votes are automatically canceled at the time they have voted and are immediately arrested.
10. After qualified by the thumb machine data, the person who submitted the fraudulent ballot, are instantly arrested at the polling station.
11. All ballots are submitted to an on-site verifying machine instantly after a person votes. The machine checks voting ballot to indicate the thumb prints match in the data base.
12. Also checking for duplicates, votes are processed as stated in number eight.
13. Smeared thumb prints which cannot be machine screened are automatically rejected. The person is allowed to vote again and new prints are affixed at that time.
14. The first ballot is shredded before their eyes.
15. All ballots must be in English. In order to vote, you must be a citizen and must pass a written and verbal questionnaire to gain citizenship in ENGLISH in the United States, not your native language.
16. If an undertaker, medical staff or any person takes thumb prints from a dead person and found to have sold or given them by other party, or used for fraudulent ballots, they incurred the same penalty listed below.
17. The names and thumb prints are installed crosscheck via death certificates to insure the validity of that person. If dead, the ballot is swiftly removed, and the person submitted such ballot arrested.
18. No Voter ID is required before voting
19. No photostat ballots with photostats thumb prints or computer-generated ballots and thumb prints are allowed
Penalties
1. Fine of $100,000.00 US Dollar for each illegal vote infraction no matter how rich or poor a person is, this MUST be applied and collected. Equal protection under law.
2. First offense, Clearing forests. Don’t care how hot or cold the weather is.
3. Picking trash on highways
4. Cutting bush on highways, mountains and invasive weeds. Grouped in chain gangs
5. Hoeing weeds and growing food in a government farm for poor people and for our troops.
6. They are not paid for their daily eight-hour labor. They are criminals.
SENTENCES
1 First offense 5 years for EACH illegal vote
2. Second offense 10 years for EACH illegal vote
3. No time off for good behavior.
4. No work – no FOOD for that day but all the water they can drink
5. No judge or politician can alter or lessen theses sentences.
The thumb print: NO ONE cannot say they did not perform the crime, because their thumb print is theirs and no one’s else.
Not bad Snake but too much BS. Are you a 2nd LT? Remember “KISS”. Vote in person. Have picture ID. Paper ballot only. Anyone voting that not allow to or voting more than once, 10 years prison sentence automatically. Anyone cheating in any way, shape or form that working as any type of election official from poll watcher up get the death penalty for doing so. For that is how serious voting is. My own Art of War manual.
Semper Fi Bro. University of Science, Music and Culture.
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All good ideas but why should they get “all the water they can drink”?
Apparently Soros “owns” your judiciary…One thing is for sure, the corrupt media continues to ‘lead’ the Systemic Stupid…