Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who is currently suing drag-hating MAGA queen Kari Lake for defamation (more on that in a moment), offered a master class this week in how to shut down a crazed election denier in a single tweet.
Yesterday, Richer took a moment to personally respond to an extreme right-wing activist who questioned mail-in voting in Arizona ahead of the state’s primaries next month.
Aubrey Savela is a field representative for the extreme right-wing nonprofit Turning Point Action who regularly tweets and retweets about god, guns, and groomers. She’s also a huge Donald Trump and Kari Lake supporter.
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Earlier this week, she leaned into Lake’s false claims that the elections in Arizona, and Maricopa county in particularly, are being run fraudulently by sharing a photo on social media of two mail-in ballots she received.
“Maricopa county at its finest… My first time ever voting in a presidential preference election and I received not one but two mail-in ballots. Thank you @stephen_richer,” she tweeted.
Richer, who is a Republican BTW, wasted no time in explaining to Savela why she received two ballots and how exactly mail-in voting works.
“Hi Aubrey! Thanks for reaching out,” he responded. “You changed your voter registration on the last day of voter registration (Feb. 20) from your Chandler address to your new Tempe address.”
He continued, “Because early ballots must go out on Feb. 21, your Chandler ballot was already set to go out, and so it did. Then we sent out a new ballot to your Tempe address when we processed your voter registration modification. That’s why you had to redact out different lengths in the address (because they were sent to different addresses).”
He further explained, “You’ll also notice that one of packet codes ends in ’01’ (the one to your old address) and one ends in ’02’ (the one sent to your new address). As soon as the ’02’ one goes out, the ’01’ packet is dead. Meaning even if you sent it back, it wouldn’t proceed to signature verification, and it wouldn’t be opened. That’s how we prevent people from voting twice.”
“Hope this helps! Have a great night! Happy voting!”
🖐️ 🎤
Hi Aubrey!
— Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct) (@stephen_richer) February 29, 2024
Thanks for reaching out.
You changed your voter registration on the last day of voter registration (Feb. 20) from your Chandler address to your new Tempe address.
Because early ballots must go out on Feb. 21, your Chandler ballot was already set to go out, and…
Richer’s reply to Savela’s tweet received an overwhelming praise from others.
“This Richer guy is an assassin,” one person tweeted. “I’m hiring him to tweet all my ex boyfriends.”
“I’d like to report a murder,” another said.
“This was exquisitely brutal,” someone else commented.
“Congratulations on your victory tonight sir,” another added.
Clearly, Richer is not one to suffer fools, as evidenced by his response to Savela and his defamation lawsuit against Lake, which should soon be going to trial.
He filed the lawsuit last year after she wouldn’t quit falsely accusing him of being a criminal and saying he “sabotaged” electronic ballot printers and inserted 300,000 fake ballots into the Maricopa County ballot count, thus costing her the governorship in 2022.
In reality, Richer didn’t do anything wrong. Lake simply lost the election fair and square to Democrat Katie Hobbs by 17,000 votes. But as a result of her endless lies about him, Richer has faced months of harassment and even received death threats.
“She’s allowed to insult me, criticize my abilities, criticize my hair,” he told reporters. “She is not allowed to say that I did something that was criminally unlawful, something that has been adjudicated by multiple courts as absolutely, positively not happening.”
Lake has tried twice to get the case dismissed. Both times she has failed. Just last month, a judge has ruled her claims about Richer could be proved false to a jury and greenlit the case for trial.
Related:
Kari Lake accidentally just admitted her claims about election fraud are complete B.S.
Of course, everyone else has known this for years.
Last week, in an appearance on Real America’s Voice, she implied Richer was suing her in an effort to shut down her current bid for U.S. Senate. Never mind the fact that he filed the suit several months before she announced her candidacy.
“I wish I could sit here and tell you everything’s fine and dandy,” Lake said. “It’s not. But I do know this, they’re trying to bring down President Trump. They’re trying to sue me into oblivion for speaking about elections.”
But in a separate interview with local radio station KTAR News 92.3 FM last week, she accidentally admitted that her claims about Richer and election fraud aren’t actually based in fact.
“I don’t know who exactly stole the election,” Lake confessed, before quickly adding, “But there are a lot of people who are running elections poorly, and we’ve seen the results.”
Lake is currently running for U.S. Senate in Arizona against pro-LGBTQ+ Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, who has been outraising her by millions of dollars. Meanwhile, incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent, has yet to announce whether she’ll seek another term in office.
The latest batch of polls from Emerson College find Lake six points behind Gallego. Meanwhile, Sinema is trailing Lake by 10 points and Gallego by 15 points.
Sinema has until April 1 to register for reelection but has remained tight-lipped about her plans. If she does decide to run, she’ll almost certainly lose and it could end up tipping the race to Lake.
Related:
GOP officially backs conspiracy queen Kari Lake… because it worked out so well for them the last time
The National Republican Senate Committee just endorsed the Arizona gubernatorial loser.
abfab
Another brainless republican bimbo.
decrans
Cletus the Slack Jawed Grammar Yokel is hot on the case!
dbmcvey
decraps is opposed to the civil rights of LGBT people. He works for (and then gets fired by) anti-gay Republicans.
abfab
When they find the time between transitions…
decrans
Shoehorning an autistic teen lesbian through an irreversible gender transition without fully exploring underlying trauma conditions is not a civil right. Sorry, Rosa Parks!
dbmcvey
decraps is really a terrible person, as this most recent post proves.
decrans
Nope. It’s called making sure youth aren’t sexually traumatized before pumping them chock-full of pills, dumbass.
abfab
Stay as far away from the youth as possible. Please.
decrans
Same. Your daily obsession with female body parts speaks volumes, Buffalo Bill.
abfab
You. A failure.
decrans
You. A misogynist.
abfab
I am, decrans. I really am. I’m an American man. I will work on that. Thank you.
COTTONTOP
That pretty much describes them all (including the ones commenting here).
decrans
Tell it to the autistic teen lesbian with the badly butchered breasts in the New York Times, Cottontop. She’s only a member of your community whenever it’s convenient for you.
dbmcvey
decraps just writes these truly stupid comments that must be right wing propaganda. If I cared I might try to figure it out but I know he spends all his time logged on to insane conservative sites and whacking off.
decrans
Because the NY Times is now under the rubric “right-wing propaganda.” You sound deranged. Hey, Dickvaney can’t refute the points. Look over there! Pathetic, Dave Matthews.
decrans
At least the liberals I went to college with had the good sense to duck away instead off trying to vomit diarrhea against a wall and see what sticks. Our friend Dickvaney falls into the latter category.
Kangol2
Kari Lake and many of her supporters long ago left the empirical, fact-based community. Mr. Richer’s response to that lying lunatic was simple, devastating and very effective. Whether it gets through is another matter, but then again, the most impenetrable wall is stupidity!
abfab
2 ballots really rocked her boat. She should stop couch surfing and settle down.
ZzBomb
We continue to watch the pathetic display of adult children flipping the board game b/c they lost.
The silver lining of which is that they’re doing so at their own detriment.
abfab
And then, in true Baron Wiseman style, roll out the mea culpas and beg for understanding.
Mr.Gavin Elster
And…..I understand some Hollywood liberals, and radical animal rights activists, taking their orders from Hillary Clinton,and the spirit of the late Bob Barker, have been tampering with the big wheel on “The Price Is Right ” so MAGA/Trump supporters, and meat eaters get locked out of the “Showcase” round!
abfab
Come on down!
barryaksarben
LOL. no amount of transphobia and gay hatred will make this dumbass bitch look less stupid. we know exactly what DECRANS and dear dear Baron try every single time they post. they immediately try to switch the topic. This woman from this article is the problem
still_onthemark
“I’d like to report a murder! Scari Lake murdered democracy with a candlestick in the conservatory! And then she shoved the candlestick up democracy’s butt! It’s a hate crime!”
abfab
Scari Lake said NO to the Log Cabin Brides when they asked her to be the Maid/Whore of Honor. Even she has her standards…….
Fahd
This nonsensical complaining that every time a Republican loses the election was rigged, and “look I got two ballots”, and mail-in voting is prone to fraud is part of the larger Republican efforts at voter suppression and the overall undermining of trust in American democracy. As Lyndsey Graham has noted, Republicans can’t win if everyone who’s entitled to vote does so, and MAGA Republicans are definitely willing to sacrifice fair elections as long as their buffoon wins. So when the Count of Monte Crisco loses be ready for an uproar (tell it to the hand).
I hope Mr. Richer gets a lot richer when he scores his huge judgment in the case against her.
abfab
Yes yes yes! This!
(Barron left this off the GOP platform list he so lovingly created as wedding gift to his new mates in Tenn.)
”This nonsensical complaining that every time a Republican loses the election was rigged, and “look I got two ballots”, and mail-in voting is prone to fraud is part of the larger Republican efforts at voter suppression”
dbmcvey
It’s the MAGA way!
dbmcvey
Barren actually believes Trump did win the election. I wonder if he believes this insane woman did too.
abfab
He believes anything.