Kari Lake recordsdata swimsuit difficult certification of Arizona election

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Defeated Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed swimsuit in Arizona Superior Court docket difficult the certification of the state’s election.

Lake, who has also amplified former President Donald Trump’s lies in regards to the 2020 election, makes quite a few claims within the 70-page swimsuit, together with that printer failures at some polling locations disenfranchised voters in Maricopa County, making a “debacle” within the county.

As CNN has previously reported, Maricopa officers have mentioned that printer issues affected about 70 vote facilities, stopping some ballots from being learn by tabulator machines on Election Day, however that the issues have been mounted and that those ballots were set aside in a safe poll field and counted individually. Invoice Gates, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, known as the inconvenience and the lengthy strains that resulted “unlucky” in a single Twitter video however mentioned that “each voter had a chance to forged a vote on Election Day.”

Amongst different issues, Lake additionally cites lengthy strains and criticizes using mail-in ballots within the swimsuit.

“Accordingly, Lake is entitled to an order setting apart the election in its entirety and ordering a brand new election,” Lake’s attorneys write within the swimsuit. The swimsuit additionally asks the courtroom for “an order setting apart the licensed results of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election and declaring that Kari Lake is the winner of the 2022 gubernatorial election.”

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who defeated Lake to grow to be governor-elect, is known as within the swimsuit in her capability as secretary of state and is one in every of a number of defendants.

“Kari Lake wants consideration like a fish wants water – and unbiased consultants and native election officers of each events have made clear that this was a protected, safe and truthful election,” Hobbs said, calling the submitting “baseless” and a “nuisance lawsuit.”

Lake has questioned the integrity of the outcomes since she misplaced final month’s election. Arizona certified the election on Monday.