“People Are Voting ‘Kari Lake’ for Senate; Today, She Is Asking the AZ Supreme Court To Declare Her Governor” [AZ Law]

Friday, July 12th, 2024

ARIZONA -–  Kari Lake is continuing her power-hungry quest to overturn her 2022 gubernatorial loss, last night asking the Arizona Supreme Court to “either order a new 2022 gubernatorial election, or ‘proportionally strike 275,000 ballots’” and declare her Governor, according to a new filing obtained by AZ Law. 

Exactly one month ago today, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled – in the same case as Lake’s new filing – that Lake “will not get a do-over of the 2022 election she lost,” “nor is Lake entitled to a new trial.”

In May, the Arizona Supreme Court “sanctioned attorneys for Kari Lake, the 2022 Republican candidate for governor, ordering them to pay thousands of dollars for repeating ‘unequivocally false’ election claims in court.”

Despite her election lies repeatedly being knocked down in court, Lake announced in June that she is continuing to push baseless conspiracy theories about the 2022 election in federal court. Lake filed a new motion in her case to ban the use of voting machines, which the U.S. Supreme Court “brushed aside” in April, refusing Lake’s request for them to “endorse a conspiracy theory” election denial case that has previously been described as  “furthering false narratives,” “baseless,” and “reckless” – and resulted in over $100,000 in sanctions. 

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AZ Law: People Are Voting “Kari Lake” for Senate; Today, She Is Asking the AZ Supreme Court To Declare Her Governor

By: Paul Weich

July 12, 2024

Key Points:

• Thousands of people have already voted in the July 30 primary, and presumably, many have voted for Kari Lake to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Today, Lake is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to declare her to be the Governor by reversing the 2022 election.

• As promised to Arizona’s Law one month ago, Lake filed her Petition for Review last night, waiting the full 30 days allowed by law to appeal the lower courts’ rulings against her. 

• In it, they argue that the Superior Court and the Court of Appeals judges should have reinstated her case because of “new” evidence that Maricopa County did not conduct the necessary logic and accuracy testing on the vote tabulators. Her new evidence is a declaration by Clay Parikh and her belief that Maricopa County Elections Director later contradicted himself about the testing. 

• (Those new evidence claims have been rejected by multiple federal courts in Lake’s separate effort to throw out electronic voting machines, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the matter.)

• Lake’s Petition also renews claims that Maricopa County did not properly verify signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes. The Petition asks the Justices to either order a new 2022 gubernatorial election, or “proportionally strike 275,000 ballots”.

• “Because Hobbs eclipsed Lake by more than 10% of Maricopa’s early voting, under Grounds, Lake would win.“

• The Petition was filed by Lake attorneys Kurt Olsen and Jennifer Wright (subbing in for the temporarily suspended Bryan Blehm).