Unsuccessful 2022 Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has dismissed her challenge to the election. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror

An Arizona court ruled Kari Lake’s election challenge, writing that “voters were able to vote, votes were tallied correctly, and there is no other basis to justify the annulment of the election results.” was rejected.

Lake, a Trump-backed Republican who believes the “big lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, has claimed since the November election that the victory was also stolen from her hands. . The 2022 gubernatorial candidate deliberately ruined work on Election Day in Maricopa County, inserting illegal ballots into the mix, and verifying invalid signatures from mail-in voters, threatening Democrats and others. I have spent months denouncing the alleged co-conspirators. However, she was unable to prove these claims in court.

the lake continues her fundraiser with the promise of take the case to the Arizona Supreme Court.

The Arizona First Division Court of Appeals ruled on February 16, Dec decision Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, Governor Katie Hobbs Win the 2022 race for the governor.Court of Appeal made scathing criticism The only evidence her attorney provided for some of Lake’s legal claims was Voting printer issue In Maricopa County, voter disenfranchisement was caused bySimply put, it’s pure speculation. “

Hobbes, a Democrat, defeated Lake by more than 17,000 votes in the November election and was sworn in as governor on January 3. social media posts and conservative talk show A podcast that said she was a “real governor.”

in her first election challengeand on appeal, Lake asked the court to set aside Hobbes’ victory and hold a new election, or declare Lake the winner.

The High Court dismissed eight of Lake’s original 10 counts of action, but said most fell outside the scope of the limited electoral contest. During the trial, her attorney tried to prove that Maricopa County election officials tampered with the on-demand ballot printer. As a result, according to Lake, votes are said to have come at a cost. Her attorney also worked to prove that election officials violated the early voting administrative process requirements, allowing some illegal ballots to be added to the mix.

Judge Thompson ultimately ruled that Lake had failed to prove any element of her claim, and the Court of Appeals upheld that ruling.

On appeal, Lake argued that the High Court’s decision was tainted by errors of law and fact, and that one of her claims regarding early voting signature verification was wrongly dismissed. The Court of Appeals agreed with Thompson that a lawsuit questioning the county’s signature verification process should be brought before the election, not after Lake loses.

Evidence of voter disenfranchisement presented by Lake during the High Court trial included voters failing to complete exit polls, the speculation of the man who conducted the survey that voters who did not complete the survey also did not vote, and extrapolation. Percentage of voters who did not complete the survey to indicate the number of people who intended to vote in an election but did not.

To invalidate an election result, an election challenger must prove that there were enough illegal or incorrect votes to influence the outcome of the election.

“This rule requires a competent mathematical basis for concluding that the results were plausibly different, rather than simply an unbound assertion of uncertainty,” he writes. “Whatever the merits of the expert’s actual poll results, his conclusions regarding the alleged ‘disenfranchisement'[ment]’ was unfounded.

The appeals court also dismissed Lake’s claim that 25,000 illegal votes were inserted into the counting process.

“Apart from questionable mathematics, Lake does not explain (or provide any legal basis) how the difference between the initial estimate and the final exact number invalidates the vote.” writes Cattani.

The court also denied Hobbes’ request for Lake to reimburse her attorney fees, saying she “did not provide a substantive basis for the award.”

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