Arizona election official forced to go into hiding after receiving death threats following Kari Lake’s defeat
By Donna November 21, 2022 11:20 am Category: News (0.0 from 0 votes)
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A senior election official in one of Arizona’s most politically important counties has been forced to go into hiding after receiving a string of death threats in the wake of Kari Lake’s defeat.
Bill Gates, who serves as chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, has been taken to an undisclosed location and is being safeguarded by a security detail from the area sheriff’s office.
Mr Gates is an outspoken defender of his county’s electoral practices and integrity, pushing back on frenzied conspiracy theories shared among supporters of Donald Trump and the candidates he endorsed.
Chief among the losing deniers is erstwhile gubernatorial candidate Ms Lake, who endeared herself to both Mr Trump and his supporters during her campaign by relentlessly focusing on the debunked myth of a stolen election.
The MAGA Republican lost the race for governor to Democrat Katie Hobbs, but is refusing to concede.
She recently visited Mar-a-Lago to appear at an event with Mr Trump, who this weekend wrongly told an audience that Ms Lake’s election is “not over”.
As ballot counting rumbled on longer in Maricopa County, Mr Gates made an effort to reassure voters that things were proceeding as expected and that problems in the mechanical counting of votes had been addressed.
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