A state court has dismissed Kari Lake’s separate legal challenge in losing to Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, in the midterm elections.

Thursday’s dismissal is the second ruling in the former gubernatorial candidate’s efforts to prove her victory.

“While Lake’s argument underscores the difficulty of Election Day, the evidence presented to the Superior Court ultimately proves that voters were able to cast their ballots, that their votes were tallied correctly, and that they were justified in withdrawing their votes. Her request for redress fails because it upholds the court’s conclusion that there is no other basis for electoral election results, court said in that opinion Denied Lake’s claims.

After losing by just over 17,000 votes, Lake claimed that ballot printing problems at some polling stations were the result of deliberate fraud. However, the court said she did not provide evidence that voters whose ballots could not be read by the tallyers at the polling place could not have cast their ballots.

In fact, the court said an expert testifying on Lake’s behalf admitted that an illegible ballot could be physically presented at the polling place.

“Lake’s cybersecurity experts ensured that misconfigured ballots (or ballots that could not be read by on-site counters for other reasons) were physically routed through a secure “door 3.” Confirmed that it can be submitted and reproduced on a readable ballot by the Bipartisan Commission of the Maricopa County Central Tally Facility. , and finally counted,” the court said.

Lake complied with the decision from the court on Twitterindicating that she will appeal the decision further to the state Supreme Court.

“We said we’d take this case to the Arizona Supreme Court, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do. Buckle up, America!” she wrote.

Lake has been a vocal supporter of former President Trump’s baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

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