Hobbs and Lake love voting by mail
I look into the voter registration files of Dem candidate and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and GOP nominee and former newsreader Kari Lake
Both of Arizona’s choices for governor this year love to vote by mail, even if one of them pretends she doesn’t. (Any guesses which one?)
This campaign cycle, Kari Lake, the first-time Republican candidate for governor, has advocated for gutting the state’s vote by mail system even though she and roughly 80 percent of the state opt to vote this way.
Lake has not only voted by mail –– which by her views is “unconstitutional” –– between 2006 and 2020, but after months of campaigning against the safe and secure system, she submitted her ballot by mail for the August primary where she was on the ballot.
Registered under her legal name, Kari Halperin, I obtained her voter file from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office which shows her current registration status, every update to her registration since she became an Arizona voter on July 18, 2000, whether she changed her party membership (she did), how she has voted and which elections she voted in.
Lake actually updated her legal name back to Kari Ann Lake on December 27, 2021 and put herself back onto the Active Early Voting List1.
Lake originally registered as a Republican, changed her status to independent four days before the 2006 election, switched to Democrat in January 2008 when she allegedly knocked doors, gave money to and voter for Barack Obama, and then switched back to Republican in January 2012 where she has since remained and continued her gradual shift further to the right and beyond reality.
Before her vote by mail in August, Lake did have an about face on the practice hoping to encourage her faithful followers to also vote that way, likely because her claims of it being prime for widespread fraud was total bullshit.
Maricopa County received Lake’s ballot on July 27. It’s not clear if she mailed it or if she dropped it off at a vote center.
In 28 eligible elections since the 2006 general, Lake voted by mail in 26 of them.
Katie Hobbs, the current secretary of state, has never doubted the vote by mail system she is now in charge of overseeing for the state, and has opted to vote this way in 27 of 29 elections since the 2006 general2.
Hobbs is registered under her legal name Kathleen Hobbs and also has at one time switched her party registration.
She registered to vote in 1992 as a Democrat, but in 1996 she switched to independent. She switched back to Democrat in 2004 where she has since remained.
Hobbs, like Lake, is on the Active Early Voting List.
Previously called PEVL or the Permanent Early Voting List
Hobbs had one more election than Lake because Republicans did not have a Presidential Preference Election in 2020.