Kari Lake at a campaign event in Scottsdale on October 19, 2022.Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror

Kari Lake has appealed again to the Arizona Supreme Court to reverse last year’s loss of 17,000 votes, but so far has been dismissed after failing to provide evidence to support her exaggerated allegations of fraud and voting. It has been. – rigging.

Lake filed a lawsuit in state superior court on Friday. she lost the second trial In May, in Maricopa County Superior Court, she asked for either new elections or to be appointed governor. The Supreme Court and defendants in the case, including Governor Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County, have yet to respond to her petition.

In doing so, she will allow the normal appeals process to be skipped, citing “the importance of the state as a whole and the urgency of correcting election fraud affecting the 2022 and upcoming 2024 elections.” I am asking the High Court to

Eight months into the 2022 election, President Trump-backed Republican Lake has held on to victory over Democrat Hobbes, who took office more than seven months ago.

“To restore confidence in the 2022 election and future Arizona elections, the clouds over the 2022 election must be resolved,” Lake wrote in the petition.

Lake, who has been dismissive of the 2020 and 2022 elections, lost to Hobbes in November by more than 17,000 votes, but she still insists she is the true governor of Arizona. did not stop solicit donations to support her legal efforts.

Ms. Lake and her attorneys, Scottsdale divorce attorney Brian Brem and Washington, D.C. employment attorney Kurt Olsen, are before the Supreme Court after the case was transferred from state court about two weeks ago. We are asking the Court of Appeal to withdraw the case. From the First Division Court of Appeals to the Second Division.

Lake’s case was randomly one of several selected for transfer From the very busy Division 1 covering the northern part of the state, including Phoenix, to Division 2 covering the southern part, including Tucson.

In her complaint to the Supreme Court, Lake said that new evidence was found after the trial to justify her claims, and she wants the trial court’s ruling to be overturned or a new election to be held. Plaintiffs are typically not permitted to present new evidence during appeal proceedings, instead focusing on whether the lower court correctly applied the law.

Lake and her lawyer have made dramatic announcements on social media about what they call it. New Evidence of Corruptionalleging fraud or incompetence influenced Maricopa County’s 2022 general election, but so far trial, appeal and supreme court No convincing evidence was found.

Now, Lake is accusing Maricopa County of covering up hundreds of counters experiencing errors during pre-election testing and incorrectly authenticating counters prior to those tests. She also claimed that she was using a version of the software that was not certified with the county charting software, rather than a version certified for use in Arizona.

in her petitionthe lake points to independent research The 2022 Election Day issue was ordered by Maricopa County and led by former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor. While testing the printers, McGregor’s team found that four of his printers randomly printed the wrong size ballots without any explanation.

The problem also occurred in Maricopa County on Election Day 2022, when poll workers were unable to read wrong-sized ballots, but those ballots were later counted. Lake said the fraudulent ballot issue could only have been intentionally caused by the use of malware or remote access to tally machines, but neither the court nor McGregor’s investigation reached that conclusion. did not agree with (Tallying tools are not allowed to connect to the internet, and no internet-connected devices were present in any inspection of Maricopa County’s election equipment.)

Lake claimed in the original Election Challenge Litigation It is suspected that someone deliberately tampered with the printers to disenfranchise direct voters on Election Day, who are strongly Republican-leaning. However, she provided no evidence to support her claims and the trial. appeal and supreme court It did not accept Lake’s claims as valid.

Similarly, an independent research team found no evidence of tampering.

In his petition, Lake also reiterates the second-instance allegation that early ballot signatures were reviewed faster than human time, taking just seconds per signature. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, however, ultimately disagreed with that argument.

of the lake Second trial After the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of all but one of the claims at its first hearing in December, Thompson’s court over the signature verification issue erupted. The High Court remanded only the signature verification issue back to Mr. Thompson for a second trial.

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