Protest outside the Maricopa election center was seeded by Kari Lake and her allies’ baseless claims

Kari Lake, the Republican candidate in the unresolved race for governor in Arizona, has issued a steady drumbeat of accusations that the Maricopa County elections office is “slow-rolling” the ballot count since Election Day. Lake and her allies are also weaving in a claim that local election administrators are somehow manipulating the count to ensure front-load Democratic ballots to make her campaign look bad. The claim ignores the fact that since Donald Trump attacked mail-in voting in 2020, Republican voters have traditionally favored voting in person on Election Day — a pattern reinforced b…

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