Voter fraud is real — just not that frequent
Lake was still trailing her opponent by 20,000 votes when she announced defiantly, “There is no path to victory for my opponent. We won this race.”
The crowd cheered.
Citing ballot irregularities in her home county, which were already well-publicized, Lake added, “I wish that our election officials could count votes. I wish it were all better,” before vowing to “turn it all around” once she takes office in January.
At that moment, I emailed a colleague noting that the night was still young, and I wondered how she would walk back her premature accusation of voter fraud if she were to win, after all the votes had been counted.
Lake did overcome her early deficit to win by nearly 20,000 votes, and she will face Democratic nominee Katie Hobbs in the November general election.
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