….During the hearing on Friday, Lake’s legal counsel cited a new declaration by Jarrett that Maricopa County submitted, saying that, after the certification of the ballot tabulators on Oct. 11, the county realized that they hadn’t configured the ballot tabulators to reject provisional ballots. As a result, the county “went in, rewrote the memory cards, improved the software,” and “reconfigured” the tabulator machines, said Lake’s lawyer. This meant that the county had to conduct logic and accuracy testing again, argued Lake’s counsel.

Her team also noted that 58% of the ballot tabulators failed logic and accuracy testing and that, according to “testimony of over 200 witnesses who were voters at vote centers, 59% of Maricopa County vote centers experienced severe malfunctions of tabulators.”

The defendants’ legal team argued that Lake was seeking inappropriate relief for her allegations and that Jarrett’s declaration wasn’t a “shocking bombshell” or proof of a violation of the logic and accuracy testing requirement. Instead, the security feature to prevent provisional or early ballots from being tabulated by the machines was installed on Oct. 10 onto the sampling of tabulators that were to undergo logic and accuracy testing, which they passed on Oct. 11. Then, the security feature that passed testing on Oct. 11 was installed on the rest of the tabulators.….