The Salty Cracker, Arizona Treasurer, Arizona Governor

The Salty Cracker recently made a comment pertaining to the number of votes for the Republican Treasurers candidate in Arizona (Kimberly Yee), relative to the # of votes Kari Lake received. I decided to look this up myself. https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona https://archive.ph/nxln5 https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=4&year=2022&f=0&off=8&elect=0

2022 AZ Treasurer total votes = 2,454,904 (R) 1,366,196 (D) 1,088,708 (97.6% as many votes as cast in the Governor’s race)

2022 AZ Governor total votes = 2,515,100 (R) 1,247,859 (D) 1,267,241

2022 AZ Senate total votes = 2,527,944 (R) 1,174,755 (D) 1,300,471

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2018 AZ Treasurer total votes = 2,301,317 (R) 1,249,120 (D) 1,052,197 (96.83% as many votes as cast in the Governor’s race)

2018 AZ Governor total votes = 2,376,441 (R) 1,330,863 (D) 994,341

2018 AZ Senate total votes = 2,384,308 (R) 1,135,200 (D) 1,191,100

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2014 AZ Treasurer total votes = 1,063,472 (R) 1,063,472 (unopposed)

2014 AZ Governor total votes = 1,508,919 (R) 805,062 (D) 626,921

2014 AZ Senate total votes = NO RACE

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2010 AZ Treasurer total votes = 1,527,338 (R) 795,298 (D) 628,436 (88.29%)

2010 AZ Governor total votes = 1,729,736 (R) 938,934 (D) 733,935

2010 AZ Senate total votes = 1,713,334 (R) 1,005,615 (D) 592,011

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2006 AZ Treasurer total votes = 1,448,328 (R) 821,138 (D) 627,190 (94.43%)

2006 AZ Governor total votes = 1,533,645 (R) 543,528 (D) 959,830

2006 AZ Senate total votes = 1,526,782 (R) 814,398 (D) 664,141

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2002 AZ Treasurer total votes = 1,166,129 (R) 597,435 (D) 568,694 (95.1%)

2002 AZ Governor total votes = 1,226,111 (R) 554,465 (D) 566,284

2002 AZ Senate total votes = NO RACE

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1998 AZ Treasurer total votes = 886,508 (R) 714,739 (D) 171,769 (87.11%)

1998 AZ Governor total votes = 1,017,616 (R) 620,188 (D) 361,552

1998 AZ Senate total votes = 1,013,280 (R) 696,577 (D) 275,224

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1994 AZ Treasurer total votes = 1,051,122 (R) 582,367 (D) 398,892 (93.05%)

1994 AZ Governor total votes = 1,129,607 (R) 593,492 (D) 500,702

1994 AZ Senate total votes = 1,119,060 (R) 600,999 (D) 442,510

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1990 AZ Treasurer total votes = 992,009 (R) 554,539 (D) 437,470 (93.99% as many votes as cast in the Governor’s race)

1990 AZ Governor total votes = 1,055,406 (R) 523,984 (D) 519,691

1990 AZ Senate total votes = NO RACE

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I see what The Salty Cracker is getting at & I think it’s hokey & incompetent for these morons (who required everyone to be registered by 10/11/22, so they would KNOW how many ballots you would roughly need & how much time it would take to count that upper limit, assuming turnout is not insanely high https://azsos.gov/elections/about-elections/voter-registration-procedures https://vote.gov/register/az/ ) to be taking 6 days to do what Florida & Iowa did in about 6 hours.

Iowa’s final House race was called at noon on Wednesday, maybe AZ officials need to talk to FL or IA’s Secy. of State on how to conduct an election.

That said, as far back as I went you can see that the number of votes cast for Treasurer overall was always LOWER than the raw number of votes cast for Governor in each case (indicating voters are not as interested in that race obviously) or Senate if there was a Senate contest.

That happened every single time. I should also point out that the Republicans did not lose a Treasurer’s contest in the 9 election cycles I examined. Prior to 2022, they did lose 2 Gubernatorial contests.

Did the AZ Republican Treasurer Candidate (throwing out 2014, as the “R” was unopposed) ever receive more votes than the Republican Gubernatorial nominee? Yes, in 2006 (GOP lost), 2002 (GOP lost), 1998 (GOP won) & 1990 (GOP won).

This is not the first time prior to 2022 that occurred. The % of votes cast in the Treasurers contest as a % of all votes cast for Governor was the highest in the time-frame, but not outlier high, as it was only slightly ahead of 2018 & in 2002 it was >95%.

Arizona definitely needs to talk to Iowa and/or Florida on how you count votes & maybe lay off the absentee voting a bit. You should be required to have a good reason for an absentee ballot (you will be out of state on business because you drive a semi or you are in a nursing home), this willy-nilly mailing of ballots as they do in some states is just a magnet for fraud & then you have a fight over “curing” ballots, which doesn’t happen nearly as much if you vote in-person.

My curiosity was piqued by what The Salty Cracker said & figured I would look it up. He’s usually right, but I don’t think there’s enough evidence there, I would say enough independents voted for the “R” Treasurer Candidate & then voted for Hobbs. Why? I don’t know what is going on in their heads.

Of course, this 6-day ballot counting is going to make people question the integrity of your election, especially when numerous other states wrapped it up in less than 8 hours & even the “close races” were called the next day.

Hand-marked paper ballots are the way to go, I would shelve the touch screen voting crap. If you are in a state where Republicans have a trifecta & you have not done the following things (I will be writing my local officials) 1) You need a reason to vote absentee 2) No local officials allowed to “cure” ballots – if you are going to vote absentee, get it right or show up in person 3) No dropboxes all over the countryside that can be stuffed full of ballots at 3AM 4) No mail-in ballots accepted after the polls close on election day