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Gov. Katie Hobbs and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes want the Arizona Supreme Court to impose sanctions on Kari Lake for spreading “frivolous conspiracy theories” in Arizona courts, but Lake won’t go to court. continues to urge her to reconsider her allegations, which have already been dismissed.

In a motion seeking sanctions, Hobbs’ attorneys said, “In the months following the election, Kari Lake unfoundedly and persistently challenged her defeat, sought to subvert the will of Arizona voters, and criticized the election process and officials. He tried to sow the seeds of distrust against

Lake, a Republican who lost the 2022 gubernatorial election to Democrat Hobbes by more than 17,000 votes, is a pro-Trump election naysayer who continues to tell his supporters that he is the true governor of Arizona. increase.

Lake has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that she lost due to deliberate misconduct by Maricopa County election officials who did not follow due process and tried to prevent her from winning.

“We now live in a banana republic called Arizona, and the government is run by people who weren’t chosen to fill that role,” Lake told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. on his podcast on Thursday“We’re talking about people like Adrian Fontes, apparently Katie Hobbs, Chris Mays in the office of AG. They stole our government from our people.”

a First trial in December and Appeal in February Both dismissed all of Lake’s allegations and ruled them inappropriate or unfounded to take to court in an election challenge.Arizona Supreme Court in March Rejected all of Lake’s claims All but one case was remanded to the Court of First Instance for review as the lower court wrongfully dismissed the signature verification process.

Lake and her attorneys, Scottsdale divorce attorney Brian Brem and Washington, DC corporate employment attorney Kurt Olsen, asked the question in documents filed with the Supreme Court last week. don’t punish them The court also requested reconsideration of one of Lake’s previously dismissed claims regarding alleged problems with the storage process for early voting in Maricopa County. A motion for a retrial has not been granted at this stage, but Lake doubled down on Thursday and filed another motion for a retrial in court.

Lake told the court that her series of detention claims, as well as her signature verification claim, which the Supreme Court had held wrongfully dismissed, should be reversed and remanded to the court of first instance. Told.

Hobbes’ attorneys, however, noted that Lake was constantly changing the numbers and allegations of his string of detentions as the case went through trials, appeals, and the High Court.

Prior to his two-day trial in Maricopa County Superior Court in December, Lake said in one filing, “There is no way to know if fifty thousand or fifty thousand extra votes were inserted at the Lambeck facility. ” writes. (Runbeck Election Services is Maricopa County’s election contractor and scans and sorts early votes at their facility.)

Later, in an appeal, Lake said more than 25,000 legal ballots were inserted into legal ballots at Lambeck. In its response, the Court of Appeals called Lake’s mathematics “dubious” to support the numbers.

After that appeal was dismissed, Lake told the Supreme Court that it was an “indisputable fact” that 35,563 previously missing votes had been mixed up with legitimate ballots in Lambeck. In response, the court ruled, “This record does not reflect the addition of 35,563 uncounted votes to the total.”

Lake bases her number on the difference between the number of ballots recorded arriving in Lambeck on election night and the number of ballots leaving the facility for counting.

But Hobbs noted in the file that the initial numbers were estimates and the final numbers were exact numbers.

Lake said the defendants in her lawsuit, including Hobbs, Fontes and Maricopa counties, knew if illegal voting was added in Lambeck, so their numbers must be accurate or if the defendants Not true.

But the county has another way of determining if a ballot is valid. Most important is the individual barcode associated with registered voters to ensure that registered voters do not vote more than once.

Both Hobbs and Fontes sought sanctions against Lake in the form of attorney fees.

“Lake’s allegations of election tampering have no legitimacy, let alone a ‘substantial justification,’ and her continued pursuit of this allegation is now an imperative for reconsideration of her petition. To ‘unreasonably extend or delay the proceedings,’ including procedurally improper requests.Attorney’s fees are mandatory,” Hobbs wrote in the filing.

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