Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake claimed Saturday that she had “new evidence” against Maricopa County in connection with a lawsuit challenging the outcome of the gubernatorial election.

Lake lost the gubernatorial race in the November midterms to Democrat Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes. Since then, she has refused to concede to her opponent and has legally challenged this result. Lake said she repeatedly claimed there was a problem with Maricopa County’s printers and tally machines on election day, preventing voters from casting their ballots.

The former Republican candidate also claimed that hundreds of thousands of votes were illegally cast in the county, but the court dismissed her allegations. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in March that there was insufficient evidence to support her claims. Her case was also dismissed by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson in December and again by the state’s appeals court in February.

Lake tweeted on Saturday that Maricopa County lied about the functionality of some counting tools used on Election Day, citing findings released by attorney Kurt Olsen.

“Our new evidence shows that Maricopa County falsely certified that it had passed the logic and accuracy tests and then secretly tested all of our aggregation tools on three different days. 260 tallying tools failed during the test. Maricopa County used them on Election Day anyway.” shared the state of the teleconference that announced.

Olsen said Maricopa County officials conducted a “secret test” of the tally machine in October 2022 after the logic and accuracy tests were certified, and despite failing that “secret” test, It said it was said to have found 260 of the 446 tally machines used in the election. .

“The problem is of a very broad nature,” he said. Evidence claimed to have been obtained by Mr. Lake’s attorneys has not been verified or confirmed. Newsweek emailed the Maricopa County and Lake camps for comment.

wednesday lake tweeted She made similar allegations calling her lawyer’s motion for relief against the judgment a new “bombshell.” The allegation, which was filed separately from her legal challenge, falsely identified Maricopa County as having passed a test of logic and accuracy, and then secretly completed all tallies on three different days. claims to have evidence that it has tested

Lake’s lawsuit is scheduled for a hearing in Maricopa County on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the former Republican candidate said on Thursday that he would provide “evidence” of allegations of wrongdoing by county officials when his attorney checked the signatures on his ballot affidavit envelope.

“That’s why we’re asking the judge, we want this trial, this other part of this case, to really go public because before we were in the lower courts. We’ll see what happens,” Lake told former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday on The Real America’s Voice.

“Next week we’re going to shock the world with some of the things we’re going to expose in this case,” Lake said of upcoming hearings. ‘ said.