Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit, filed on Friday, alleges that there was about a 25,000 vote discrepancy in the total number of ballots Maricopa County initially reported had been cast in the Nov. 8 midterms elections versus the total it reported later that week.

That number would be significant because it exceeds Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs just over 17,000 vote margin victory over Lake in the contest.

Lake’s attorneys identified the discrepancy as a ballot chain of custody problem in their legal brief filed in state court.

“Highlighting the chain of custody failures … is the fact that two days after Election Day was completed Maricopa County found more than 25,000 additional ballots, whereas properly followed chain of custody procedures would require Maricopa County election officials to know the exact number of ballots submitted by the day after Election, November 9, 2022,” the candidate’s legal team said.

“Specifically, Maricopa County’s public statements concerning remaining ballots to be counted on November 9, 2022, and November 10, 2022, show an increase of approximately 25,000 votes with no explanation of why the number of remaining ballots could increase,” they noted.

25,000 phantom ballots show up two days after the election. Hmmmmmmm

LMAO!!!

Kari Lake's "lawsuit" is being publicly ridiculed as the most ridiculous and unprofessional "document" ever filed in Superior Court of Arizona.
It's a 40 page "document" without any legal basis, is poorly drafted and without "ANY MERIT" according to State legal experts.
In addition the previous "complaint" she and Maggat fool Mark Finchem filed was dismissed, and she and Finchem were ordered to pay the State's legal fees of more than $75,000.00. Money they bilked from right wing maggat fools like GG!!

There is no hmmmmmmmmm. Just FOOLS and morons unwilling to admit that they are on the wrong side of logic and truth!
Wake up Maggats!!

Posted by laramiebob on 12/14/2022 7:45:00 AM (view original):
LMAO!!!

Kari Lake's "lawsuit" is being publicly ridiculed as the most ridiculous and unprofessional "document" ever filed in Superior Court of Arizona.
It's a 40 page "document" without any legal basis, is poorly drafted and without "ANY MERIT" according to State legal experts.
In addition the previous "complaint" she and Maggat fool Mark Finchem filed was dismissed, and she and Finchem were ordered to pay the State's legal fees of more than $75,000.00. Money they bilked from right wing maggat fools like GG!!

There is no hmmmmmmmmm. Just FOOLS and morons unwilling to admit that they are on the wrong side of logic and truth!
Wake up Maggats!!

NEWS & POLITICS
Huge Development in Kari Lake’s Election Lawsuit
BY MATT MARGOLIS, DEC 13, 2022

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors members, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake were all summoned to appear in court by the judge presiding over Lake’s electoral complaint.

“The Court has reviewed Plaintiffs’ Verified Statement of Election Contest filed December 9, 2022. Because this matter is an election challenge, the return hearing will be set on an accelerated basis,” Judge Peter Thompson wrote in his order.

Earlier this month, Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge John Tuchi sanctioned Lake and her lawyers for filing what he claimed was a frivolous, partisan lawsuit, prompting a harsh rebuke from Lake. This new order from Judge Thomspon appears to take the matter more seriously. Thompson was appointed to the bench in September 2010 by former Gov. Jan Brewer.

The previous two elections in Maricopa County, Ariz., have been controversial for how poorly they were conducted. Last year, a forensic audit of the presidential election found thousands of discrepancies in the county. On Election Day this year, many Republicans were expected to vote for Kari Lake. But in the districts where most Republicans were expected to cast their ballots, technical problems prevented thousands of individuals from voting.

Lake’s lawsuit is driven by whistleblowers who have come forward with complaints about how the 2022 elections were conducted.

“We’ve had three whistleblowers from Maricopa County reach out and say the system is seriously flawed,” Lake told Just the News on Monday. “They were throwing out tens of thousands of signatures saying they were scribbles that in no way matched. But somewhere between there, the ballots were being completely tossed out and they got looped back into the system and counted as if they were fine.”

Lake also noted that 25,000 “additional ballots and early voting ballots were discovered two days after Election Day.”

They “just showed up,” she observed. “It shows the whole system has serious problems.”

“We believe that up to 135,000 ballots were pushed through that should not have been pushed through,” Lake continued. “We’re asking a judge to let us take a look at all of the envelopes and compare signatures, so that we can find out for sure how many bad, fraudulent ballots got through in that way, of basically cheating or breaking the rules.”

Lake issued the following statement at the conclusion of today’s statement:

Lake has promised to fight this battle aggressively and “take it all the way to the Supreme Court” if necessary.

LOL.

She was a Fox newshost (talking head) for 20+ years on the Fox affiliate in Phoenix.......until she got caught on a hot mic spouting obscenities, got censored and went on an anti media tirade!

In short, like Trump, she's a fraud and a hypocrite.
I live here, I know!

You would seem to be referring to the County Recorder of Maricopa County in my State................IF there was ANY issue to actually look into.
But the actual news reports claim otherwise.
ALL of them.
The entire Lawsuit is frivolous!
Just like the last one.

And ALL of Trump's.
Man you guys are slow.

HA HA! County Recorder. You're funny.

Just fire the guy in charge of the STATE election.

That should satisfy the Republicans.

Hey Dumbout. In Arizona the County Recorders are in CHARGE (run the operation) of the voting process. They tabulate, control, mail-out, oversee, the process of the voting public casting their lawful ballots. It's called Democracy.

We can't help it that there are folks like you and Trump and Kari lake who don't like the way Democracy works.
Blame The Constitution.
Oh Wait. trump already did that, didn't he?

Again, you'se guys are so slow!

Who oversees the County recorders?

I found it!

The person tasked with supervising elections in the State of Arizona is the Secretary of State.

Find out who that was and boot them out of office and ensure they can never run for office again.

Essentially no one. Each County runs (and counts) their own elections. I think we have 15 Counties in Arizona. Each County holds elections based on precincts. I'm in one. The County Recorders Office (a taxpayer funded function of Gov't) adds up the votes and sends the results to the State. I also think that each County has "Supervisors" who essentially oversee the entire County Governmental operation, so I guess they could be viewed as being in charge of the Recorder's Office. Both The Supervisors and the County Recorders are elected Positions. Meaning they Also run for office themselves. It is the way the Law IS in Arizona. By our Constitution.

Not really arguable.

Posted by DougOut on 12/14/2022 6:43:00 PM (view original):
I found it!

The person tasked with supervising elections in the State of Arizona is the Secretary of State.

Find out who that was and boot them out of office and ensure they can never run for office again.

Completely wrong. As usual you are grossly misinformed. Stop spreading misinformation. It's Un-American and I WILL report you to admin!