Kari Lake speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at Hilton in Washington on June 24, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
Posted on 07/17/2023 9:17:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed an appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court in her election case as she claimed that 8,000 unreadable ballots were not configured properly during last year’s midterms.
Kari Lake speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at Hilton in Washington on June 24, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
In an appeal filed (pdf) with the state’s highest court, Ms. Lake alleged that the 8,000 ballots were either “duplicated or counted.” What’s more, they were also unreadable, her team contended.
“The ballot-on-demand printer investigation report by former Chief Justice McGregor (‘the McGregor Report’) found that ‘four printers randomly printed one or a few ‘fit to page’ ballots in the middle of printing a batch of ballots … [n]one of the technical people with whom we spoke could explain how or why that error occurred,'” said the appeal.
An expert for Mrs. Lake, a former Fox affiliate anchor, had “testified this ‘error’ could only result from malware or remote access and resulted in at least 8,000 misconfigured ballots, the vast majority of which were neither duplicated nor counted,” it added.
The defendants in the case, including Maricopa County officials and the Arizona secretary of state’s office, have not issued a public response or filing in the case.
While a number of her legal challenges have been rejected by state courts, Ms. Lake has said she would take her lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed, although the top court has shown little appetite to take up election challenges since late 2020.
“This is, I believe, our best hope to get reform in our elections: my case,” she said in a recent interview. “I believe it’s the greatest election case. We have the truth on our side. We have tons of evidence. Yes, we haven’t had a judge rule in our favor. But it takes a lot of courage to make the right ruling on this case.”
Ms. Lake has never conceded the race to Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, who was sworn into office earlier this year. At the same time, Ms. Lake has signaled in media interviews that she may be exploring a run for the U.S. Senate seat that is currently held by former Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) in what could be a three-way race between Ms. Lake, Ms. Sinema, and Rep. Reuben Gallego (D-Ariz.).
Her challenge comes as another court, in a separate, case ordered Ms. Lake’s and former Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem’s teams to pay $122,200 in sanctions. U.S. District Judge John Tuchi in Phoenix wrote that former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz also has to pay about 10 percent of that fine because, according to Mr. Tuchi, Mr. Dershowitz signed off on a number of legal documents in the case.
“Failing to impose meaningful sanctions here might very well encourage others to follow suit by lending their credibility to documents filed in court without facing any real consequence if their certifications prove hollow or incomplete,” Mr. Tuchi wrote in his ruling. “The need for general deterrence is therefore significant.”
Mr. Dershowitz indicated to the Arizona Republic that he would appeal the order.
Ms. Lake and Mr. Finchem sued former Arizona Secretary of State Ms. Hobbs and officials in Maricopa and Pima counties in April 2022, in a bid to change the state and counties’ voting procedures. Mr. Tuchi dismissed the lawsuit in August. The Maricopa County officials named as defendants sought sanctions against Ms. Lake for trying to sow doubts about the then-upcoming 2022 elections.
It comes also as Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder, filed a defamation lawsuit at the end of June against Ms. Lake, saying that he’s faced “violent vitriol and other dire consequences” because of “lies” spread by her, including death threats and the loss of friendships.
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I truly detest you, but thought you were a patriot. Taking back that patriot comment.
She sure would be an improvement.
I’m smart enough to not live in Arizona!
There is not much time left in my life, so
I really don’t GAS.
My generation should scare them.
Sure she will not listen to you. Thank you Lord!
Except that all the fictional boxer’s fights are fixed against him.
I admire her tenacity. That’s the kind of attorney I would want fighting my cases. The opposition will slip up eventually.
I’ve won similar court cases against all odds after the lower political judges went against me. It’s the principle.
Many people died fighting for freedom of religion against greater resistance.
Einstein also was quoted as saying:
“The Secret To Creativity Is Knowing how To Hide Your Sources. “
There is a Chinese proverb where the greatest martial artist learned his techniques through a series of many losses to the greatest fighters.
Many times battles lost are learning experiences, not failures.
But that’s different. Abrams ain’t on our side.
You are not winning anything until you stop the fraud.
Great quote (I guess). I wonder what he meant by that?
The courts have proven they are not going to do anything l, what is your solution
My solution would be to do the following
Create a ballot harvesting operation at least comparable to the Democrats
Vote early don’t wait until Election Day
File lawsuits over dirty voter rolls with proof
Eliminate stolen elections as a central theme of campaign
Concede elections and wage a campaign of economic populism emphasizing law and order and appeal to the average citizen
I could keep going but to keep challenging the outcome of elections is a proven losing strategy
The courts don’t seem the least bit interested in election
shenanigans.
Should have known you’d be a surrender-monkey with contempt for people who actually fight.
Wouldn’t it be great if the White House cocaine Secret Service sleuths were as persistent as Kari.
Pass laws punishing vote fraud with 10 year
jail sentences.
outlaw covid election changes like mailing out
filled in ballots. Make election day mean
showing up to vote, no counting late ballots.
pass voter ID, no more drop boxes. Use paper
ballots, no room for count changes from Spain.
Have lots of election monitors on election day.
A man (I think his last name is Valentine) has researched this. He was interviewed on War Room a few weeks ago, and there was a FR thread about it..
Voter database addresses were fine one day. The day before ballots were sent to voters in a conservative county, ZIP codes were changed. Ballots couldn’t be delivered. The day after mailings, ZIP codes were changed back to the correct one(s).
This was proven before Kari went to court, but her attorneys chose not to use it.
“It might be time to use a different strategy since what you are doing isn’t working”
Certainly not working when the people making decisions are Soros plants. You make it sound like KARI is doing something wrong. She’s not. She’s not winning considering TPTB. What is she supposed to do — roll over and just give up?
“The only way to clean it up is to actually win elections first and then attempt to change the laws”
How’s the weather there in the Fool’s Paradise?
Kari Lake, Trump and any number of other Republicans have filed legal challenge after legal challenge over the last few years to election results, NONE have worked and more than likely none will, the courts are simply not going to remedy the situation, after a while, it should dawn on everyone that it’s a losing strategy.
Consistently I’ve never argued to roll over and give up, quite the opposite, I’ve advocated any number of things that can be done.
Where it’s legal, Kari Lake would be a major force to organize and develop a working ballot harvesting program.
When Mail in balloting exists, Republicans should have a campaign to go door to door and collect the ballots or make sure the ballots get filled out and mailed back, especially in Republican areas.
Start an organization to file legal cases to clean up the voter rolls, which have some track record of working, considering it’s the law in some states to do that. Groups already exist to do this in some areas, this should be universal in every state for Republicans.
Encourage your voters to vote early and follow up with them they have done this, don’t give the Democrats a single source of failure in the voting system by encourage election day voting.
Acknowledge you lost when someone else is declared the victor in elections. A majority of the voting public do not care about these issues, they care about pocketbook issues like the price of gas, inflation, etc....
It looks like Kari Lake will run for the US Senate in 2024, if she wins the Republican nomination, the media and Kyrsten Sinema will make the entire election about Lake’s election denying campaign, instead of the border, economy, etc. and Lake will likely lose a winnable election.
Yes; they’re a big part of the problem.
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