‘I’d like to report a murder’: Arizona elections official blows up voter fraud claim

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A member of the political nonprofit Turning Point Action tried to publicly tar Stephen Richer, who is Maricopa County Recorder, by accusing the office of intentionally duplicating a mail-in ballot as a way to juice votes.

“Maricopa county at its finest… My first time ever voting in a presidential preference election and I received not one but two mail-in ballots,” Aubrey Savela captioned above a photo of her ballots with some of her personal information redacted in a post. She then name checked Richer: “Thank you @stephen_richer.”

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Richer, who famously sued Kari Lake for defamation, again didn’t flinch.

He tweeted directly to her to explain how Savela updated her voter registration on Feb. 20 from a Chandler address to her new Tempe address.

“Because early ballots must go out on Feb. 21, your Chandler ballot was already set to go out, and so it did,” he writes. “Then we sent out a new ballot to your Tempe address when we processed your voter registration modification.”

“That’s why you had to redact out different lengths in the address (because they were sent to different addresses).”

He then detailed out how each of the ballots possesses different “packet codes” distinguishing them and that the former one marked with “01” code “is dead” — rendering it worthless and would be uncounted if sent back.

“Meaning even if you sent it back, it wouldn’t proceed to signature verification, and it wouldn’t be opened,” Richer explained. “That’s how we prevent people from voting twice.”

He then encouraged her to send the ballot marked “02” as “that’s the only one that will work.”

“Hope this helps,” his tweet reads. “Have a great night! Happy voting!”

The effort had @MuellerSheWrote sarcastically posting later that evening: “I’d like to report a murder.”