Investigator says at trial that chain of custody for Maricopa ballots was broken
One employee expressed concern "that they would just take the ballots out of the shipping containers without counting them."
The trial of the electoral process in Arizona in the state's gubernatorial elections begins by raising doubts about compliance with the rules. Heather Honey, who is a private investigator hired by Republican candidate Kari Lake's legal team, has testified in court that the chain of custody of ballots in Maricopa and Runbeck counties was broken.
Lake, from his Twitter account, has captured the moment of the trial in which the investigator makes this statement before the judge.
Ballots were not counted
Honey says that the seals were removed from the ballot bags, and that the votes they contained were not counted. Reflecting the conversation she had with Leslie, an election process worker in Maricopa, the researcher said that what concerned her
As far as Runbeck County is concerned, this is how Heather Honey shows her conversation with Denise, an election clerk:
Broken chain of custody
The researcher spoke with two election staff in two different counties (Maricopa and Runbeck). The lawyer asks him if it is true that the two employees told him that the chain of custody had been broken. And she responds