Kari Lake listens to questions during a press conference at the Election Commission in Phoenix on Aug. 3, 2022. Lake declared victory in the Republican gubernatorial primary.Photo credit: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy Arizona Mirror

Kari Lake’s remaining hopes of overturning the 2020 election are in the hands of a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge after a hearing on May 12. There, Maricopa County said her last-ditch effort was based on apparently false allegations of wrongdoing that had no evidence.

Mr. Lake, a Trump-backed election denier, ran for governor of Arizona six months ago and lost, but continues to claim that he actually won because the election was rigged. Lake lost to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes, and courts have repeatedly dismissed his claims for lack of evidence.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson said on May 12 that the Arizona Supreme Court ruled after Mr. Lake appealed the ruling after he failed to comply with the ballot signature verification that Maricopa County originally denied in December. He heard arguments on Mr. Lake’s allegations of remand.

Lake’s attorneys also tried to persuade Mr. Thompson to reopen the previously dismissed motion regarding logic and accuracy testing of Maricopa County ballot printers and tallying machines. Mr. Lake’s attorney argued that new evidence discovered after the claim was dismissed deserves reconsideration.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate claimed that the Maricopa County tally system logs and survey results were fraudulent. Independent Review of Election Matters A county-commissioned investigation showed that “this election was rigged.”

Lake Attorney Kurt Olsen says there is an unexplained ongoing problem with the county ballot printer that causes 20-inch ballots to shrink to 19-inch before being printed, causing tallies to be read. He argued that there must have been the following reasons for the inability to do so. Malware or other fraudulent activity, such as someone remotely accessing a printer.”

He also argued that Maricopa County should have retested the machine’s logic and accuracy after installing software that prevented it from reading early ballots and provisional ballots.

But Maricopa County attorney Joseph Larue countered that he believed Lake’s attorney misunderstood or ignored the county’s account of what happened with the software installation. Larue said the new software was installed on a sample of the aggregate tables that were included in the pre-test logic and accuracy tests, and then on the remaining aggregate tables.

“The claim that this election was rigged is offensive and untrue,” Lalou said.

Olsen claimed Friday that 260 tally machines failed during tests of logic and accuracy, and those machines failed again on Election Day.

But Lalou countered that just because a counter failed to read a ballot once during a test doesn’t mean it failed completely, pointing out that the ballot was inserted at an angle or He added that sometimes ballots cannot be read by counters because they have lint on them, and ballots are often read the second time they are inserted.

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And while Lake’s attorneys argued that the math didn’t add up when it came to Maricopa County’s signature verification process, defense attorneys said much of the evidence supporting Lake’s signature verification claims came from the 2020 election. He countered by arguing that it was obtained by election and not by election. 2022 election.

Defense attorneys also reported how many signatures that witnesses who testified that Maricopa County violated the signature verification process verified or failed to verify as first-level signature judges in the 2022 Maricopa County election. He pointed out that he relied on his own memory for the number of Several more levels of signature verification reviews then take place, but these witnesses were not parties.

Mr. Hobbes’ attorney, Abha Khanna, said Mr. Lake and his lawyers had no evidence to prove with mathematical certainty that Mr. Lake did in fact win the election, a necessary criterion to overturn the election. Said they didn’t provide it.

“All she offers is an unfettered argument about uncertainty,” Khanna said in court Friday. “They are not connected to reality at all.”

of supreme court judgment On May 4, Mr. Lake’s attorneys said more than 35,000 ballots were illegally placed in stacks of legal ballots in Maricopa County as November 2022 ballots were being sorted shortly after the election. It was announced that he would have to pay a $2,000 fine for writing in his appeal that the insertion was an “indisputable fact.” Day. There is no proof of that.

The court also accused Lake and a legal team of Scottsdale divorce attorney Brian Brem and Washington, D.C. employment attorney Olsen, of repeating false allegations in separate filings.

in the First trial in December or Hosted by Thompson,and, February appeal, both courts dismissed all allegations in Lake’s election challenge, stating that they were either improper or unsupported by the facts to bring to court in such litigation. made a verdict. Arizona Supreme Court in March Dismissed all of Lake’s claims All but one were sent back to Mr. Thompson for reconsideration regarding the signature verification process, which the lower court found unfairly dismissed.

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