On Wednesday, the Arizona Supreme Court rejected Kari Lake’s years-long effort to overturn her contested 2022 gubernatorial race against Katie Hobbs, despite 60% of vote tabulators malfunctioning on Election Day, leading to four-hour wait times for Republican voters.
Last November, Kari Lake’s attorneys filed a petition to transfer the lawsuit directly to the state’s highest court, bypassing the Appeals Court, presenting new evidence that machine failures on Election Day—affecting tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of voters—were likely the result of intentional misconduct.
Surveillance footage from October 14, 2022, shows employees reprogramming memory cards and testing the reprogrammed tabulators, which jammed during testing—just as they did on Election Day.
However, in June 2024, the Appeals Court dismissed Lake’s lawsuit, and the Supreme Court waited months to rule on her July 2024 Petition for Review.
On Wednesday, the court delivered its final ruling on Kari Lake’s case. It’s worth noting that Chief Justice Ann Timmer of the Arizona Supreme Court is the sister of Laurie Roberts, a correspondent for the Arizona Republic and a vocal critic of Lake.
Below is the order:
Kari Lake is currently in a tight race with Democrat Ruben Gallego for the U.S. Senate, with issues now arising over the vote count.
Pima County, Arizona, was caught increasing the number of uncounted ballots even as the number of counted ballots rose. Anyone with half a brain knows that the number of uncounted ballots should decrease as more ballots are counted.
Similar issues were found in Lake’s 2022 election, where 35,000 ballots seemingly appeared out of nowhere with no chain of custody, and Maricopa County added 25,000 ballots during the final count.
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