Kari Lake will have one last chance to argue in court that her 17,000-vote loss 2022 election should be overturned — but to actually do so, she will have to prove conclusively that Maricopa County brazenly failed to verify tens of thousands of early voter signatures and that, in doing so, the county affected the outcome in the election.
And the judge in the case, who ruled late Monday that Lake can take her sole remaining claim to trial on Wednesday, made clear that the former GOP gubernatorial nominee has her work cut out for her: She must prove her allegations by “clear and convincing evidence,” something he noted she hasn’t yet done in her monthslong litigation trying to toss out the November election.
Noting that Lake’s allegation of election fraud “leaps over a substantial gap in the evidence presented,” Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson wrote in a ruling Monday ordering the new trial that the evidence she has presented “falls far below what is needed to establish a basis for fraud.”
Thompson also rejected Lake’s bid to revive a claim regarding logic and accuracy testing of Maricopa County’s ballot-on-demand printers and tabulators that was previously dismissed. Lake’s attorneys argued that new evidence uncovered after the claim was dismissed warranted its reconsideration.
But the judge said Lake was really trying to introduce a “wholly new claim” against the county, as her focus had shifted from alleging intentional malfeasance with the county’s election site printers to the tabulators that were at polling locations in November.
Judge….don’t believe your lying eyes when the proof is on video for everyone to see. Take the easy way out and go along with the commie crowd. I will gladly eat my words if Kari wins.
Oh great, how much time have those commie bastards had to hide and or destroy evidence? The cartels own the judges too!
Doc, I believe it took over a week to declare the “winner.”
Likely destroyed a lot of Kari votes in that period.
Loco – Considering that it only took them from 4AM to 8AM to to declare the “winner.” of a presidential election I say a week is a luxury!!
So in other words, yeah, the election was stolen, but she somehow has to prove the thieves intended to steal it, and weren’t just “sloppy”.
LOCO, there’s more than just missing vote. There’s documentation, and worst of all WITNESS INTIMIDATION! The Fukin’ cartels have a choke hold on this state!
they didn’t ‘ignore’ the rules, they violated therm
they paid close attention to the rules, and knew just how to violate them to achieve their goal
Call me Mr Silver Lining but when she finally loses and she will, she’ll be free to be DJT’s VP pick.