A Jan. 23 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) from former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake shows a claim about purported election fraud in the 2022 midterms.
"Officials sabotaged Election Day," the caption reads. "On November 8th – when 75% of votes were for @KariLake – nearly 1/4 of a MILLION voting attempts FAILED, according to the system log files that were obtained via FOIA."
The post generated nearly 43,000 likes in less than a week. Lake shared the same claim on Twitter, where it accumulated over 22,000 likes.
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The voting logs in question show some ballots had to be scanned multiple times by tabulating machines before they were read properly at the polls, but there's no proof any valid votes weren't counted. Votes that couldn't ultimately be scanned by machine were counted at another location.
A quick aside before we analyze the log-related claim: The post claims Lake received 75% of the vote, but that's nonsense. The final canvas showed she finished about 17,000 votes behind Katie Hobbs, her Democratic opponent. On a percentage basis, the margin was 50.3% to 49.6%.
Lake is also wrong in how she characterized the rejected ballots.
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