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

Kari Lake, a failed Republican gubernatorial candidate, has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to reconsider her election contest lawsuit decision after the lawsuit was dismissed by both the Maricopa County Superior Court and the Arizona Court of Appeals. I got

“Incontrovertible facts and violations of law indicate that Maricopa’s 2022 election must be canceled,” Lake’s attorney wrote in a petition to the Supreme Court. This court must allow review to rectify this glaring error.”

Last year, the Arizona Republican Party standard-bearer endorsed by Donald Trump, Lake lost the November gubernatorial election to Democrat Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.

But that didn’t stop Lake from continuing to argue that she would indeed have won the election had it not been for the deliberate suppression of Republican voters and rampant election fraud in Maricopa County. didn’t stop request for donationshe says, to support her electoral challenge.

After 2 days trial at Lake’s first election challenge, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson denied her request for re-election. She appealed the decision to both the Court of Appeals and the State Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeals should handle it.

An appeals court last month denied Lake’s request to either appoint her governor or hold new elections, granting some of the allegations in her lawsuit. ‘Totally speculative’ Backed by zero evidence.

in her petition Written by Scottsdale divorce attorney Brian Brem and Washington, DC corporate employment attorney Kurt Olsen, Lake argued that the Court of Appeals erred in essentially every decision in this case. When it dismissed her appeal, the court “ruled that Arizona’s election law did not matter,” she claims.

In both her first lawsuit and her appeal, Lake accused Maricopa County election officials and workers of deliberately ruining their jobs on Election Day, leading to long lines and frustration designed to sabotage the Republican Party. Claimed to have caused problems with ballot printers bringing voters. She also accused them of inserting illegal ballots into legal ballots and verifying invalid signatures from mail-in voters.

An appeals court said Lake made a mistake when she ignored a 35,563-vote ballot she claimed was illegally added to legal ballots at a facility run by Maricopa County election contractor Lambeck. claims.

Lake called this ballot injection “an incontrovertible fact,” but the Court of Appeals ruled that except for the difference between the initial estimate of early votes, which were withdrawn on Election Day, and the final official total, , she said she did not provide any evidence.

In the petition, Lake’s attorneys also argued that the appeals court ignored the county’s violations of ballot stewardship requirements, which it said facilitated the illegal injection of 35,000 ballots.

“Allowing Maricopa to cover up the 35,563 missing votes by Runbeck would void the (chain of control) requirement and prevent the insertion of illegal votes into elections, unless the opinion was overridden. It emphasizes how to ratify,” they argue.

Both the trial court and the court of appeals agreed that Lake had to prove by “clear and convincing evidence” to win the case. highest legal standards — that there were enough illegal or invalid votes to change the outcome of the election. Instead, Lake’s attorneys say he only needs to prove that the election issue “affects.”[ed] result, or at least make it uncertain. ”

Lake’s attorneys also supported the trial court’s argument that the issue of Maricopa County’s signature verification process for mail-in ballots should have been raised before the election, rather than after she lost. i think i was wrong.

In her petition, Lake argued that her problem was not the signature verification process itself, but rather the county’s failure to comply with it, an issue that the court should uphold.

She also said the trial and appellate courts were wrong to dismiss claims that Maricopa County intentionally targeted Republican voters on Election Day when a malfunctioning printer caused problems with voting. We hope the Supreme Court will rule. Republicans were the majority of voters who turned up to vote on Election Day in Maricopa County after a prominent Republican urged voters to vote in person rather than by mail.

“Targeting voters by race or left-handedness is clearly viable,” writes Lake’s attorney. “Targeting Republicans is no exception.”

I had a lake, promised to seek expedited review From the Supreme Court, her plea does not ask for it. Without it, responses from the state and county will not expire until April 3rd. Once that response is filed, seven Supreme Court justices will decide whether to pursue the case.

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