Kari Lake Trial #7: Rey Valenzuela, MC Elections co-director. Jovan commentary. Day 2.

The two issues Judge Thompson let Kari Lake argue were the late earlies' (Nov.8 pickup EVB's) Chain of Custody and whether voters were disenfranchised by the 19" resized ballot images.

Valenzuela and Scott Jarrett were the Maricopa County Elections Dept. co-directors. Valenzuela ran Early Voting: voter-dropped ballots during Early Voting and on Election Day, and In-Person EV's, which also go in the drop box. Jarrett ran Election Day: both ballot types, EVB and EDB.

Worthwhile info on Chain of Custody here particularly with the USPS pickups: MCTEC sends one worker from each party with the courier to pick them up and they're driven straight to Runbeck. Important distinctions:

1. the white envelope packets that get co-mingled with the green and provisionals after pickup are *In Person Early Vote Ballots*, those are centrally tabulated, unlike EDBs which are run at the precinct (or are supposed to be).

2. Pulitzer's on the ball about USPS, the invoices may technically be estimates but they're solid accurate, it's what the Post Office does. They know what's in a ballot packet and how much it weighs, so counting them from the weight (which is an exact measurement to many decimals) is simple math.

From my reading of the witness affidavits, it seems Maricopa has no system for counting these weight based post office invoices or corroborating them with their outbound counts. At some point they end up in the box with the ballots whereever they land. I've read about them being given to the truck driver or something, if someone stumbles into one and doesn't know what to do with it but it seems there's no system to it.

From Valenzuela's testimony, it sounds like they go by Runbeck's ballot count when they scan the ballot packets in. Which would count any ballots inserted in the truck by the courier, with the USPS ballots. This is an opportunity to insert ballots during transit of USPS ballots.

3. The estimate going into Runbeck from MCTEC is also based on the tray count and the ballot capacity per tray and uses the same inbound CoC form. These trays themselves are loaded at MCTEC after they open the deliveries from the drop boxes out of the truck. So it's different than USPS's "estimate" but IIRC it's accurate too. Every tray but the last is loaded to capacity.

Runbeck estimated 263k EV ballots inbound from MCTEC on these trays on Election Day but scanned 298k out. But even the 263k that were 'counted in' have broken Chain of Custody, because there are no EVBTS or Maricopa Cy Delivery Receipts for Election Day 2022.

4. The form that wasn't filled Nov. 8 besides the EVBTS is no. 2, the "Maricopa Delivery Receipt". Pulitzer says the "Inbound Receipt of Delivery" is missing, no, he's just getting the name wrong. The names are counterintuitive. Inbound Receipt of Delivery was filled out, you can see for yourself in this folder of Verity Vote's findings (4 screenshots):
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/drgekapb3ehbk/VerityVote+Custody+Docs

I'm not sure about some of Pulitzer's criticisms of Blehm, but he should've asked about the SPECIFIC MISSING CUSTODY FORMS: THE EVBTS AND THE MC DELIVERY RECEIPT.

Blehm is hard to hear, other parts Jovan talks over the court proceedings, you can can follow along on the transcript here:
https://electionpdfs.locals.com/post/3647203/lake-trial-official-transcript
control+F to find where they are.
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