An evidentiary hearing is about to begin in Arizona's Maricopa County in a suit involving the debunk

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Adam Klasfeld
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An evidentiary hearing is about to begin in Arizona's Maricopa County in a suit involving the debunked 'Sharpiegate' conspiracy, rebranded as 'Marking Device'-gate after the Trump campaign jumped in as a plaintiff.

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Judge Kiley presses the Trump campaign:

Their solicitation of witnesses produced sworn affidavits that his own investigation determined were "clearly false," "spam as you put it."

The ones they could not prove were false, they submitted to the court.

Trump camp: "Correct."

Judge Kiley: "This is concerning."

"How is that a reliable process of gathering evidence?"

Langhofer insists: "We've excluded everything that has the indicia of unreliability."

Judge Kiley responds: That's not an indicia of trustworthiness of the remaining affidavits. That just shows you can't disprove what's asserted.

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1. "That's not an indicia of trustworthiness"

Shorter Judge Kiley: Don't bring that weak-ass shit into my courtroom!

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2. Because the form had a CAPTCHA

Kory Langhofer

That's the name of the Trump campaign attorney insisting that those form-produced sworn affidavits are somehow reliable even though a subset of them were false.

Because the form had a CAPTCHA.

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3. Can someone explain what actually happened here?

I really dont get it. They are claiming poll workers purposely gave Trump voters sharpies then threw out those votes because they used sharpies. This makes zero sense.

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5. From the ny post

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Election officials on Wednesday calmed nervous Arizona voters who feared their votes weren’t counted because they used Sharpie markers to fill in ballots.

Sharpies were handed out at some poll locations, including ones in the Phoenix area, sparking concerns on social media that the markers would bleed through paper and not register on vote-counting machines, according to AZFamily.com.

But Erika Flores, spokesperson for the Maricopa County Elections Department, said three types of writing utensils — blue or black pens and Sharpies — are fine for filling in ballots, the local outlet reported.

“Did you know we use Sharpies in the Vote Centers so the ink doesn’t smudge as ballots are counted onsite? New offset columns on the ballots means bleed through won’t impact your vote!” the Maricopa County Elections Department tweeted.

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10. Thanks!

Seems much ado about nothing.

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11. Exactly

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7. They're stupid argument goes like this

The Sharpie bled through the paper and that caused the ballots not to be read by the machine they're fed through. That's their nonsense allegation. Another issue is a lot of people noticed on the website to check the status of your vote that it said cancelled. Well this is because a lot of people are signed up for the permanent early voting list and didn't realize that when you're signed up for that and you go vote in-person they cancel the vote that was mailed to you. So the combination of bleeding Sharpie and the cancelled votes equals fraud.
I live in Phoenix and I screwed up and I moved and I forgot to change my residential address. Well I did it two days before the deadline. So I actually got mailed two ballots as my mailing address has been a PO box for a while. So when I go online and look at my vote I have one that's says cancelled and then one that says accepted. The system automatically cancelled the first one because of my address change.

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9. Thanks for this how would this be specific to Trump voters?

I still dont get it.

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4. Hopefully @ABAesq takes a long hard look at @kory_langhofer, the face of subverting democracy.

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6. Maricopa attorney throwing some shade.....lol

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8. If Sharpies produce bogus ballots, then all of tRump's executive order are bogus.

KY.........