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  Who was she running against? A trump backed republican or?
context: This is why every vote matters
  Congratulations to the people of Arizona >
  
  Thank goodness Katie Hobbs was in charge of her own election. It’s much easier to win for yourself and your party when you purposefully screw things up for voters causing 2+ hour lines and disenfranchising thousands of citizens voting on Election Day.  With leadership like Katie I’m sure Democrats will keep winning for a long time! >
  
  
  when you purposefully screw things up for voters causing 2+ hour lines and disenfranchising thousands of citizens voting on Election Day.  With leadership like Katie I’m sure Democrats will keep winning for a long time!
  
  Citation needed. You know who is to blame? Conservative mouthpieces telling their base to vote last minute when problems can arise. Newsflash to all: early voting works! :)
  Also, should be noted that across the state there were major Republican election officials who corroborate the integrity of the election. >
  
  You know you're grasping at straws when your argument is "telling people to vote is disenfranchisement" LOL you made me laugh >
  
  So, to be clear:
  
  Still no source.
  No recognition of the failed anti-early voting propaganda from the right that backfired amusingly. 
  No recognition to the numerous state election republican officials who backed the integrity of the elections. (I'd be surprised if you could name them). 
  No recognition to the countless failed court challenges. >
  
  I'm a fan of short voting lines across the board. That's why I encourage everyone to do the legal, safe, effective early-voting. Republicans should have done the same. 
  Long lines disenfranchise all. I'm sure many dems were in those lines, too.
  Also, this does not substantiate your claim that Hobbs intentionally did this lol.
  The judge agrees with me: you can't make accusations about intention without evidence. That would be irresponsible and baseless. If it didn't matter, you and Lake wouldn't be trying to shoehorn in the intentional part. Especially considering this impacts all voters, not just Republicans.
  Also wait, do you want Hobbs to be hands-on, or hands-off the election? Can't blame her for being in charge while running for governor and then also want her to run it closely and not delegate responsibilities to someone else (which she largely did; see Bill Gates). >
  
  
  Also, this does not substantiate your claim that Hobbs intentionally did this lol.
  
  Maybe you're mistaking me with somebody else, but I never made this claim and I don't care if it was intentional or not.
  If somebody unintentionally rigs an election... call me old fashioned but I say that's bad! I never said it was intentional. At best, it was negligence... but who knows if it was intentional or not!? >
  
  Again, quoting you:
  
  when you purposefully screw things up for voters causing 2+ hour lines and disenfranchising thousands of citizens voting on Election Day.  With leadership like Katie I’m sure Democrats will keep winning for a long time!
  
  Synonymous with intentional. Also, again: Republican election officials from Richter to Gates corroborate the integrity of the election. Also, again, no group was targeted since all groups were in those lines. 
  Also, voting lines are often long and yes should be addressed. There would be less lines if Republicans were encouraged to use the system in place in Arizona that is literally a model for the country. That's not the fault of Hobbs that misinformation among Republicans abounds and adds strain to a system that shouldn't need to be strained. >
  
  Negligence is purposeful, but that doesn’t mean it’s an intentional action.
  The lines weren’t 2-3 hours because there were a lot of people. Those lines were there because of a failure in administration, oversight, testing, etc. (i.e. responsibilities of the SOS) >
  
  
  Republican attorneys are going to look through the numbers again and see if there's any grounds to do anything going forward
  
  Relentless. >
  
  Ehh.
  I support everyone's right to exhaust every legal avenue. If the Republican won by one vote, I'd support the Democrats' right to see if it can be legally overturned, too.
  The problem is the extrajudicial bullshit the Republicans are trying, not legitimate legal challenges. >
  
  What legal avenues are there after the recount? Just keep recounting until they get a result they like? >
  
  I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know exactly.
  But if--and that's a big hypothetical "if", not something I actually believe happened--for example there were an unusually large discrepancy in the recount, that might be worth challenging. If there's evidence that vote-counters were openly partisan, that might be worth challenging. Hell, if there's evidence that illegal voter suppression caused a significant shift from polling, that might be worth challenging.
  The point is, if there are legal avenues, it's everyone's right to explore them. The problem is not challenging the results of the election through established legal means, it's challenging the results of the election outside of those established legal avenues. >
  
  Every time they dig into investigating that stuff, they find more wrongdoing on the Republican side, and then try to brush the whole thing under the rug. >
  
  I'm not denying that. The point I'm trying to make is that the system must hold. If we want to be able to challenge Republican bullshit, we need to let the Republicans challenge whatever it's legal for them to challenge too. The moment we tell them no, we have zero defense against them telling us no too. In the meantime, the courts will throw out the bullshit. >
  
  Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with you at all. The system must indeed hold. I was just pointing out that when they do fight it, it always ends up worse for them. >
  
  
  ”My legal team will be assessing our options to make sure every vote is counted,” wrote Hamadeh, who hasn’t conceded to Mayes.
  
  For fuck’s sake, THEY JUST COUNTED EVERY VOTE. That’s what a recount is, you absolute fucking DONKEY. >
  
  Well, the deficit was almost cut in half after the recount. At this rate, theyd have to recount it an infinite amount of times for it to be super close. >
  
  Know your limits >
  
  My understanding is that this is also the first state level election where the excess death rate of Covid on Republicans likely led to a Democratic victory. The more you know… >
  
  Considering the margin she won by? Yeah, if the Republicans actually pushed their base to embrace proper health measures then they would have won. >
  
  That could probably be said for a wider national look. Hopefully a study comes out in a couple of years on the Covid effect >
  
  I think that the Repubs could lose a substantial number of their older die-hard voters over just the next couple of years based on the resistance of many of them to masking and vaccinations. Plus in any year, you'll always have the expected mortality from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, accidents, etc. And even some of the younger ones look like health-disasters-waiting-to-happen, i.e. 'Gravy Seals' and 'Meal Team Six.' >
  
  Waiting for either evil or idiots to die doesn't usually go well. I've been hearing that far too long and know too many young conservatives, this is not something that just dies off. They must be fought or taught. >
  
  Arizona has started realizing how much the GOP has screwed them. Unlike Texas, the state has started getting wise and sadly when John McCain died and Trump and company turned on his family and their narrative since he by one vote kept them from repelling the Affordable Health Care Act. When they didn't have a DAMN THING to replace it. Arizona didn't like that and while so many held on with the "Big Lie". Now with Lake and company losing so much and all the former GOP government pretty much trying to scorch Earth as they leave. I can see major change for the state. I know my family down there is very happy. >
  
  Well most people agree that the Affordable care act is a good thing. Even the red Republican. That's if you call it the ACA. But call it Obama Care no it's bad.  What these people are doing is playing on the uneducated not knowing anything. The good thing is things should be going into the right direction. Especially after lake lost her election and election lawsuit. >
  
  I’ve literally seen people say Obamacare is bad but they’re glad they have the ACA to provide them health insurance
  The cognitive dissonance in republicans is astounding >
  
  I work at the University monitoring classes. One the them was a history instructor. She said that they did a  survey and highlighting everything that the ACA did. But what they did was changed the name. People viewed ACA more favorably when it was called the ACA over Obamacare. It is astonishing. >
  
  Well that was basically the point of that branding, wasn't it? 
  By branding the ACA as "Obamacare," the GQP had a very easy time energizing and enraging their voters. They spent so much time to basically hammer in "Obama bad" so that by getting people to associate something fundamentally good with someone they hate, the GQP could gain power.
  There are and were content-oriented critiques of the ACA. But those didn't matter much to the GQP because those critiques would require explaining nuances and their audience having a rudimentary understanding of healthcare law. It is much harder to get a primal reaction with that than it is to get one from saying "this person bad and evil, this come from bad and evil person." >
  
  Well that's encouraging. Maybe AZ is rounding a corner and coming to it's senses? >
  
  Naw, shits gonna hit the fan now >
  
  How so >
  
  Republicans are going to raise holy hell >
  
  Lol who cares, they get mad about fictional characters being the wrong race. Impotent outrage is their addiction. >
  
  Would help if the media quit covering their outrage as news. >
  
  Terrible headline. The Democrat won BEFORE the recount, and framing the story the way they did implies the recount was responsible for the win. >
  
  AZ lookin a Lil purplish nowadays >
  
  2 elections in a row Dems won, definitely purple. >
  
  Get in here, we’re using Republican tears to salt our margarita rims. >
  
  she was also the winner before the recount:
  >Mayes (D) finished 280 votes ahead of Hamadeh (R), down from a lead of 511 in the original count. The reason for the discrepancy was not immediately clear.
  I only added the D and R for distinction in the above quote.  So the recount narrowed her lead, but not enough to change anything. >
  
  I’m no conspiracy theorist, but if I were, I’d think the Biden administration backed off on Covid regulations knowing that it would cause a disproportionate number of republicans to die. >
  
  If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d speculate that democrats have been pushing idiocy on republicans for about 50 years, ensuring that democrat kids will outsurvive and outcompete republican kids. But I’m not, and in reality republicans did that for some reason. >
  
  at that point you are just admitting to being stupid and gullible with extra steps lol. >
  
  One step at a time is how we move away from the brink. >
  
  "StOp tHe sTeAL!!!1!!!" >
  
  Have the snowflakes on the right started crying about a stolen election yet? Of course they have. >
  
  All the usual bots are in Hamadeh's feed crying and accusing everyone of everything... So, typical GQP loss antics.  I wonder if the SC didn't insert themselves into the Gore/Bush results, if the GQP would've adopted this as a strategy to every loss >
  
  They won before the recount. The recount just confirms it. >
  
  I know it's really picky but she didn't win "after" the recount. She'd already won. The recount affirmed the victory. >
  
  They now have a Democratic governor, attorney general, and Secretary of State, plus a Democratic Senator.  Beautiful for a state that used to be considered a Republican stronghold. >
  
  Misleading headline.
  She was already ahead by 511 votes before the recount.  After the recount she was 208 votes ahead.
  So she had already won, but due to how Arizona's election laws are, the small margin prompted a recount to affirm the winner. >
  
  This is good news. Unfortunately it's only more imaginary ammunition for right wing nutjobs >
  
  I mean, she won it before the recount as well. >
  
  As good as that news is, what a shame that the state’s new superintendent of public instruction is a raving right-winger who “promised to shut down any hint of ‘critical race theory’.” >
  
  Those of you who don't vote because you think it doesn't make any difference need to wake up! >
  
  How is Arizona becoming better than Texas now?! Congrats AZ. From a jealous Texan. >
  
  I did my part but my district still has Gosar >
  
  I’m sorry for your loss >
  
  We can all thank COVID-19 for this as the margin of Republicans vs. Democrats who unnecessarily died from the virus due to their suicidal politics is far larger than the margin here.
  COVID-19 is the ultimate Republican self-own. >
  
  The shucky ducky margin. >
  
  Cue republican shrieking >
  
  Now go prosecute the fake electors and their abettors. >
  
  good less power republicans have the better >
  
  Whoohooo! >
  
  Good on you Arizona. >
  
  I worked on some of her television ads! Good for her! >
  
  This last election gave me a little hope that our country isn't yet sliding into fascism. >
  
  The one race that was definitely decided by Republicans intentional antipathy to Covid vaccines. >
  
  Yeah, well check out the founder of “body for life” bill Phillips. I have friends that train almost everyday, and almost died. Yes, being obese is a co-morbidity, but there are fit people that got hit hard also.  I know orca-fat people that had mild symptoms also. >
  
  Phew! That should slow down their GOP's march to the middle ages. >
  
  Recounts. So hot right now. >
  
  Another win for the good guys! >
  
  Lawsuit in 5...4...3... >
  
  Once again, no bamboo ballots were discovered. >
  
  Now root out the treason and traitors in your state