KATIE HOBBS’ BALLOT ERROR JUST PROVED KARI LAKE’S POINT:

Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs — also her party’s nominee for governor in this November’s election — just proved a major point of her Republican opponent Kari Lake’s case against Hobbs.

This week, under Hobbs’ leadership, the AZ Department of State improperly marked roughly 6,000 voters as only being eligible to vote in federal races — and at least 1,000 voters already received the wrong absentee ballot.

In an official letter, Hobbs issued a statement on what she called “a federal only voter data error” that the secretary of state said was to blame for the ballot fumble:

“My office found and corrected a database error in concert with the Motor Vehicle Division” that supposedly caused thousands of voters to be marked for absentee ballots that only had federal races rather than the full slate of elections, specifically excluding the race for governor — in which Hobbs is running — along with other state and local offices.

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Hobbs is, as the secretary of state, Arizona’s chief election officer. On her watch — and while she’s been busy campaigning (but not debating her opponent) — as many as 6,000 voters were improperly flagged as being eligible to vote only in federal races.

Meanwhile, one of Kari Lake’s main critiques of Hobbs has been the “incompetent” performance as the head of Arizona’s elections. Now, three weeks before election day, Hobbs’ ballot “oops” just played right into Lake’s campaign narrative.

It gets worse for Hobbs: Katie Hobbs Last Week: I Don’t Have to Debate Kari Lake, I Am Answering Reporters’ Questions Instead. Katie Hobbs Now: I’m Also Now Refusing to Answer Reporters’ Questions.