of Arizona Court of Appeals Agree to Accelerate Consideration of Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Kali Lakelawsuit alleges the 2022 election was flawed.

In a brief order issued on Jan. 9 and made public the next day, the court ordered a reset of the “February 1, 2023 meeting issue,” and that her challenge should be treated as a “special issue.” I agree with Lake. petition for action. A court date was reportedly scheduled for March.

An attorney for Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, former Secretary of State, has until January 17 to respond and argue why Lake’s challenge should be denied. After dismissing her case in a two-day trial in December, she petitioned both the state court of appeals and the Supreme Court.

But earlier this month, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that rejected It said Lake’s petition to transfer her election case to the Supreme Court would be heard first in the Court of Appeals.

In December, Lake filed a lawsuit against Hobbes in his capacity as Secretary of State, Maricopa County Supervisor, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, and other officials, alleging that the county’s handling of the election was seriously flawed. Lake, a former broadcast journalist, argued that such disenfranchisement and election voting issues were enough to move the election in her favor. lost by 17,000 votes.

Maricopa County Judge Peter Thompson dismissed Lake’s case on Dec. 24, saying she did not produce enough evidence, but ruled that Lake should not be sanctioned. fined hundreds of thousands of dollars. Days earlier, Thompson had dismissed eight of Lake’s ten election claims.

Part of Lake’s lawsuit includes allegations that she would have won, or likely would have won, had dozens of Maricopa County ballot printers functioned properly on Election Day. I was. Maricopa County’s Bill Gates and Richer confirmed at a Nov. 8 press conference that they instructed voters to drop their ballots or find another polling place.

Maricopa supervisors recently attempted to produce a report to determine why the ballot printers were not working in November. They hired Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor to conduct an investigation, the county confirmed last week.

Lake’s lawyer used to claimed These Maricopa officials “first denied and then admitted that illegally misconfigured ballots were put into the election,” which prompted “counters to reject tens of thousands of ballots.” It has been. Lawyers said Republican voters on Election Day were disproportionately affected.

During the two-day trial, Lake called independent pollster Richard Barris, who said technical issues on Election Day disenfranchised enough voters that the election should have changed. testified. He said that most of the Maricopa voters on Election Day were Republicans, and out of his 25,000 who would normally vote, he said that 40,000 people didn’t actually go to the polls because of errors in the counting machines and printers. claimed.

Barris told the court that his estimate was largely influenced by the number of people who began responding to his exit polls but didn’t finish the process during the midterm elections.

Hobbes First Address

In a ceremony earlier this month, Hobbs was sworn in as Arizona governor and delivered her first address to the state legislature on Monday. rice field.

“Pursuing conspiracy theories, pushing agendas for particular interests, attacking the rights of fellow Arizonans, or attempting to further undermine democracy will serve no purpose. No,” said Hobbes. Said.

Other officials formally sworn in earlier this month were Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Attorney General Chris Mays, who won by just about 280 votes. They then challenged their defeat in court.

Mays opponent and Republican candidate Abe Hamade said: motion According to his lawsuit, it happened after hundreds of ballots were placed in Pinal County.

“If the Pinal County issue were repeated elsewhere in the state, we would have to fully implement the Pinal County process to conduct physical inspections and ballot counting that could determine the outcome of this election. simply ask to be given the opportunity to apply I have written on Twitter.

Jack Phillips is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York. He covers breaking news.