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Politics
Areeba Shah

Trump stokes Arizona election conspiracy

Former President Donald Trump watches Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake speak at a ‘Save America’ rally on July 22, 2022 in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Maricopa County officials said Tuesday that around 20 percent of their 223 voting sites experienced issues with tabulation machines, prompting a surge of false voter fraud claims from former President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans.

"We've got about 20 percent of the locations out there where there's an issue with the tabulator where some of the ballots, after people have voted, they try and run them through the tabulator and they're not going through," Bill Gates, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors, said in a video posted to Twitter.

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