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Judge dismisses Kari Lake’s final claim in election loss for Arizona governor
APNews ^ | 05/23/2023

Posted on 05/23/2023 5:23:26 AM PDT by devane617

A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss in last year’s race for Arizona governor, affirming the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said Lake failed to prove her claim that Maricopa County did not verify signatures on mail ballots as required by law.

Lake was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign. She has built a loyal following among Trump supporters and is openly considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kyrsten Sinema, an independent and former Democrat. Lake is also often mentioned as a potential vice presidential pick for Trump.

While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake did not. She has touted her legal battle in fundraising appeals and speeches around the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arizona; casedismissed; electionfraud; karilake; voterfraud
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To: chopperk

would it be possible to get a machine, load it with data, demonstrate how the process should work, then let the jury it out?

cuz that’s what I think I would do.


21 posted on 05/23/2023 6:06:17 AM PDT by FredSchwartz (What ever happened to common sense and simple logic?)
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To: bigbob

“She may as well change her name to Kari Trump.”

Better to change her name to Karl Lake and step out of the closet as a Tranny. She would be in office inn a few hours.


22 posted on 05/23/2023 6:13:20 AM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: RightFighter
Maybe our candidates shouldn’t tell a huge swath of Republican voters that their votes aren’t needed.

Maybe our candidates should acknowledge that there was fraud in 2020 instead of avoiding the subject and blaming 2020 on the "culture of losing".

23 posted on 05/23/2023 6:32:34 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ConservativeWarrior; bert; devane617

“We’re still too comfortable. We have houses, jobs, and food. Hopefully we don’t lose our weapons before our comfort.”

Yep, we’re the frog in the pot. They keep turning up the heat and we just get used to it.

Don’t you find it interesting that we individually are by far better armed than they are and yet they keep beating us at every turn?

They use much better weapons than guns and bullets to control us... those are useless in culture wars.


24 posted on 05/23/2023 6:57:46 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: FreeReign

and blaming 2020 on the “culture of losing”

I know it is so annoying that so many Freepers hatred of Trump has twisted their minds. They know that there is not one facet of government that is not corrupt from the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Politicians, Government Agencies, Presidency, Ad nauseam... yet they still believe elections are fair and Trump and we lost in 2022 despite all the facts below.

It is a fact that millions of votes were not signature checked (every battleground except Florida).
It is a fact that numerous court actions and audits call into question systems used to cast millions of ballots in the 2020 election.
It is a fact that nine states and Washington, D.C. automatically send presidential election ballots to anyone even on unclean voter rolls.
It is a fact that ballot counts and machine tallies are only as reliable as those in charge.
It is a fact that Drop boxes had no video monitoring or had their line of site blocked.
It is a fact Zuckerberg illegally paid out 400 Million Dollars for Dropboxes.
It is a fact that there is a vast far-left network of donation harvesters / money mules (all unemployed) donating to out of state campaigns like Raphael Warnock
It is a fact a Texas social worker charged with 134 voter fraud felonies just got 13 days in jail.
It is a fact 50 Intel Officials Fraudulently Signed the letter about Hunter’s Laptop.
It is a fact FBI meet with all social media companies to censor dissident voices and NY the Post.
It is a fact 100s of thousands of votes did not have a proper chain of custody.
It is a fact since February of last year, Los Angeles County, California, New York City, and North Carolina belatedly agreed to remove a combined 2 million ineligible people who shouldn’t have been on the voter rolls in 2020
It is a fact 100,000s ballot adjudications were done outside of two parties and not properly supervised.
It is a fact millions of ballots were mailed out illegally against state constitutions.
It is a fact In Michigan, Shiawassee County added 100,000 votes for Biden on election night that he didn’t actually get. Observers flagged the error and the tally was corrected.
It is a fact a lot of elderly care homes had 100% participation and some black precincts over 100%.
It is a fact that several precincts’ military voted 80% for Biden (never happened in history). Military votes Republicans.
It is a fact they covered up windows at counting centers so the public could not witness the vote counting.
It is a fact they used COVID to keep Republican election watchers ten feet away during counts in heavily Democrat areas.
It is a fact that Dropbox videos were illegally deleted in several states so reviews could not happen.
It is a fact that they set the machines alogirythm to kick out excessive ballots for adjudication and subject huge numbers of ballots to arbitrary change.
It is a fact in AZ 58% of the ballot tabulators failed logic and accuracy testing.
It is a fact in AZ Maricopa County according to “testimony of over 200 witnesses who were voters at vote centers that 59% of Maricopa County vote centers experienced severe malfunctions of tabulators.
It is a fact Pennsylvania failed to maintain accurate voter rolls per federal law. Other swing states too.
It is a fact vote rules were unconstitutionally changed without the state legislatures.
It is NOT a fact that Biden outperformed every living previous president in history by 20,000,000 votes. The clown could not draw a crowd of 50 and insulted blacks weekly.

So how do we really know if we lost the abortion fight. Trump won 2020 by at least a few million votes in the battleground states.


25 posted on 05/23/2023 7:08:53 AM PDT by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: chopperk

No judges will pay any heed to evidence in election suits election suits.


26 posted on 05/23/2023 7:18:38 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe pb)
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To: devane617

Typical AP, writing a story and providing about 30% of the facts, only the facts to fit their narrative. Liars by omission.


27 posted on 05/23/2023 7:23:11 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: HandBasketHell

“Oh yes, the Lamestream media is there for the verdict by a Democrat hack judge, but they refused to cover the trial”

Exactly. The news media is interested in covering such parts of political court cases only whenever it goes against a Republican.


28 posted on 05/23/2023 7:34:13 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: aquila48

They use much better weapons than guns and bullets to control us... those are useless in culture wars.


I agree. The first step was enforcing political correctness. That cost us our 1A rights.

You can’t get the first back without using the second, unfortunately. Especially when the ballot box no longer works.


29 posted on 05/23/2023 7:36:58 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: BushCountry

Thanks, great report AND THE TRUTH.

PLEASE KEEP REPORTING !!!

VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT.


30 posted on 05/23/2023 7:46:25 AM PDT by Pearfect
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To: devane617

“Lake was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies..”

So CBS ran with this same story because these are the same enemedia words I saw on here last night attributed to CBS?
Whatever, FU AP!


31 posted on 05/23/2023 8:41:47 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: chopperk

And this is why three supreme court justices chosen by President Trump is so critical along with so many other judges that he picked and the turtle confirmed. The democrat party owns most judges across the country and even a few of them being swapped helps.


32 posted on 05/23/2023 9:23:05 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: devane617

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33 posted on 05/23/2023 11:54:39 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: devane617
We have a right to due process:

Each Step of a Process such as verifying a registered voter's signature is to be taken carefully and dutifully - considering the likeness, or not, between:

- the voter's ballot signature and
- that ballot's enclosing envelope signature.

Judges have a duty to observe and respect due process. Judge Peter Thompson denied Kari Lake's right to due process.

The judge, walking to his seat, or running to his seat, are not the same process - to be carelessly limited by the judge to another meaning: "arrived at his seat 'in some fashion.'"

The Arizona law and guidance does not say, "verification of the registered voter's signature pair, may occur in some fashion."

See replies 59, 60, 61, and 62 at Kari Lake’s attorney: Evidence of rushed ballot verification warrants overturning 2022 election
34 posted on 05/23/2023 12:07:06 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Sarcazmo

Four days before the election:

“We don’t have any McCain Republicans in here, do we?” Lake asked from a campaign stage. “Alright, get the hell out,” she said, before adding, “Boy, Arizona has delivered some losers, haven’t they?”


35 posted on 05/28/2023 3:41:56 PM PDT by RightFighter (Yep)
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To: RightFighter

It’s called “addition by subtraction”!

In other words, if you alienate enough moderate voters, more of the base will vote.

Guaranteed to work…


36 posted on 05/28/2023 3:45:33 PM PDT by Fury
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To: devane617

I see the silver lining.

Kari is free to run with Trump as his VP.

Kari has TOO much integrity to accept the position given her by those who voted for her, then DESERT them for a chance at higher office by resigning the governorship or even WORSE expect the voters to give her full time pay and benefits for being a part time governor and full time candidate for VP.

Kari is NO grifter expecting those who voted for her to finance her bigger ambitions.

Only a grifter would do that.

At that moment, I can’t think of any, maybe one will come to me.


37 posted on 05/28/2023 3:54:14 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: devane617; All

Arizona freeps, please verify.

On July 2nd, Katie Hobbs will have been in office for six months and then can be recalled via recall election.

True statement or not?


38 posted on 05/28/2023 3:59:50 PM PDT by OKSooner (Kevin McCarthy = ((John Boehner) - (The excuse of alcoholism)))
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To: HandBasketHell

Bookmark


39 posted on 05/28/2023 4:03:01 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Fury

LOL. That is the most pathetic argument I’ve ever heard.


40 posted on 05/28/2023 4:14:57 PM PDT by RightFighter (Yep)
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