Kari Lake has — as soon as once more — appealed
to the Arizona Supreme Court docket in her bid to overturn her 17,000-vote
loss final yr that has to date been rejected at each flip as a result of she
has failed to supply proof backing up her bombastic claims of fraud
and vote-rigging. 

Lake on Friday petitioned the state’s excessive courtroom to take up her case, after shedding her second trial
in Maricopa County Superior Court docket in Could, during which she known as for
both a brand new election or to be named governor. The Supreme Court docket and the
defendants within the case, together with Gov. Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County,
haven’t but responded to her petition. 

In doing so, she is asking the excessive
courtroom to permit her to skip the conventional appellate course of due to its
“statewide significance, and the urgency of remedying election
maladministration affecting the 2022 election and the upcoming 2024
election.”

Within the eight months for the reason that 2022
election, Lake, a Trump-endorsed Republican, has not conceded victory to
Hobbs, a Democrat who took workplace greater than seven months in the past. 

“The cloud over the 2022 election
have to be resolved to revive religion in that and future Arizona elections,”
Lake wrote within the petition. 

Lake, a 2020 and 2022 election
denier, misplaced to Hobbs in November by greater than 17,000 votes, however that
hasn’t stopped her from persevering with to assert that she’s the true Arizona
governor, or from asking for donations to assist her authorized efforts. 

Lake and the attorneys representing
her, Scottsdale divorce lawyer Bryan Blehm and Washington, D.C.,
employment legal professional Kurt Olsen, are asking the Supreme Court docket to take the
case away from the Court docket of Appeals, after the case was moved round
two weeks in the past from the state’s Division 1 Court docket of Appeals to Division
2. 

Lake’s case was one in all a number of circumstances randomly chosen to be transferred
from the a lot busier Division 1, which covers the northern a part of the
state together with Phoenix, to Division 2, which covers the southern
portion, together with Tucson. 

Within the petition to the Supreme Court docket,
Lake asks for a reversal of the trial courtroom’s choice or for a brand new
election, saying that she has developed new proof for the reason that trial
that warrants her request. Plaintiffs are sometimes not allowed to
current new proof throughout the appeals course of, which as an alternative focuses
on whether or not decrease courts accurately utilized the legislation. 

Lake and her attorneys have repeatedly made dramatic bulletins on social media relating to what they known as new proof of corruption, malfeasance or incompetence that they are saying impacted the 2022 normal election in Maricopa County, however to date the trial, appeals and Supreme courts haven’t discovered that proof convincing. 

This time, Lake is accusing Maricopa
County of hiding that a whole lot of tabulators skilled errors throughout
testing forward of the election and that it falsely licensed the
tabulators earlier than that testing. She additionally claims that the county used an
uncertified model of software program on its tabulators, as an alternative of the
model licensed for use in Arizona. 

In her petition, Lake factors to an impartial investigation
of 2022 Election Day points ordered by Maricopa County and led by
former Arizona Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Ruth McGregor. Throughout printer
testing, McGregor’s group discovered that 4 printers randomly printed the
fallacious measurement of ballots with no rationalization. 

This difficulty, which additionally occurred in
Maricopa County on Election Day 2022, precipitated tabulators at polling
locations to be unable to learn these wrong-sized ballots, though these
ballots have been counted later. Lake says that this wrong-sized poll difficulty
might solely have been precipitated deliberately by using malware or
distant entry to the tabulators, however neither the courts nor McGregor’s
investigation agreed with that conclusion. (Tabulators usually are not allowed
to be related to the Web, and each examination of Maricopa
County’s election tools has confirmed that no units ever have been.)

Lake claimed in her authentic election problem lawsuit
that somebody had deliberately tampered with the printers in an effort
to disenfranchise in-person Election Day voters, who swung closely
Republican. However she offered no proof to again up the assertion, and
the trial, appellate and Supreme courts didn’t discover Lake’s claims to be legitimate.

Likewise, the impartial investigation group discovered no proof of tampering. 

Within the petition, Lake additionally reiterates
her argument from the second trial, that signature assessment on early
poll envelopes occurred extra shortly than humanly attainable, at only a
few seconds per signature. However Maricopa County Superior Court docket Choose
Peter Thompson in the end disagreed with that declare. 

Lake’s second trial
in Thompson’s courtroom, over the signature verification points,
occurred after the Arizona Supreme Court docket upheld the dismissal of all however
one of many claims from the preliminary trial, held in December. The excessive
courtroom despatched solely the signature verification difficulty again to Thompson,
ensuing within the second trial.