- Kari Lake has filed a public records lawsuit against Maricopa County, Arizona, over the election, according to the Associated Press.
- Running for governor, Lake flagged several voting issues as disenfranchising voters.
- Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county, is set to prove election results on Monday.
Kari Lake, the Republican MAGA acolyte who lost her bid for Arizona governor earlier this month, filed a public records lawsuit against Maricopa County, filing various complaints about an alleged printer malfunction on Election Day. requested to submit a document.
Lake’s attorneys filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, saying the county has yet to disclose the documents requested on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16. According to Associated Press.
The request sought to find voters in Maricopa who may have had difficulty voting in their precincts, including individuals who submitted mail-in ballots while checking in at the polling place.
Lake is also seeking additional information about counted and uncounted votes that may have been inadvertently mixed during the election tallying process. said like this. There have been several such incidents This month, the county confirmed that it will happen in many elections and can be resolved.
Maricopa, Arizona’s most populous county, contains about 60% of the state’s population, and in 2020 and 2021, former President Donald Trump will narrowly trail current President Joe Biden across the state. It became the epicenter of debunking allegations of voter fraud related to the loss in .
Lake, a former television journalist, lost the general election to Arizona Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, 50.3% to 49.7%. About 2.6 million votes were cast statewide, with Hobbes beating Lake with just over 17,000 of his votes.
But Lake, who has refused to concede Biden’s 2020 win in Arizona, has so far refused to concede to Hobbs.
The Republican candidate’s public records lawsuit seeks data showing voting mishaps and additional information on how many voters may have been affected by some issue, with the county disclosing the records before it certifies the results on Monday. I am asking you to
“This deadline (or a substantially equivalent deadline), under the circumstances presented, is to ensure that material public records are provided expeditiously and that obvious deficiencies are corrected before the 2022 general election vote. necessary to guarantee Read Lake’s Complaint.
Lake asked for an extension of the vote on Nov. 8, citing some issues related to the Maricopa ballot, but a state judge denied it, and registered Arizona was blocked from voting that day. He said there was no verifiable evidence of that.
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