Kari Lake Gets Great News as Legal Challenges Reveal ‘A Systemic Failure’ in Arizona’s Election Process

Kurt Olsen, attorney for 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake revealed Thursday that the failure of Maricopa County’s signature verification process isn’t limited to “simply a few bad signatures,” but is rather “a systemic failure of the entire signature verification process.”

Olsen described the breadth of the problem in an appearance on ‘The Absolute Truth’ for LindellTV following a Wednesday night ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court that upheld many of the decisions in favor of Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs and County Recorder Stephen Richer, except for one.

Olsen explained to host Emerald Robinson, “The Supreme Court did remand this case back on the issue of signature verification, which is a very, very significant issue.”

“There are literally over 100,000 ballots in question because of invalid signatures that were accepted and tabulated,” he continued.

“This is not a challenge about simply a few bad signatures. … This is about a systemic failure of the entire signature verification process, which is allowing tens of thousands of ballots with signatures that don’t match the record on file. And this is the only security feature for mail-in voting.”

.@Karilake Attorney Kurt Olsen: “This is not a challenge about simply a few bad signatures. This is about a systemic failure of the ENTIRE signature verification process.” pic.twitter.com/qShH7vgzJN

— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) March 23, 2023

The single claim the court allowed to proceed is Lake’s assertion that Arizona’s signature verification laws for mail-in ballots were not followed by Maricopa County during the 2022 election.

As reported previously in the DC Enquirer, Lake made the case that the lower courts, (Maricopa County Superior Court and the Arizona Court of Appeals) disregarded evidence her campaign presented. In so doing she argues, they “ignored this Court’s precedents for reviewing election contests and ratified Maricopa officials’ decision to ignore Arizona’s ballot chain-of-custody (“COC”) and logic and accuracy testing (“L&A testing”) requirements set forth in Arizona’s Election Procedures Manual (“EPM”), and A.R.S. §§16-621(E), 16-449, 16-452(C).”

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The filing explained,

“The court of appeals’ Opinion denying petitioner Kari Lake’s appeal ruled that Arizona election laws don’t matter.”

As reported by The Western Journal, the lower courts relied on the legal doctrine of laches, requiring that plaintiffs assert rights in a timely manner or be denied relief from the courts.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court found that the doctrine had been misapplied, and ruled,

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED remanding to the trial court to determine whether the claim that Maricopa County failed to comply with A.R.S. § 16-550(A) fails to state a claim pursuant to Ariz. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) for reasons other than laches, or, whether Petitioner can prove her claim as alleged pursuant to A.R.S. § 16-672 and establish that ‘votes [were] affected ‘in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome of the election’ based on a ‘competent mathematical basis to conclude that the outcome would plausibly have been different, not simply an untethered assertion of uncertainty.'”

According to Politico, Hobbs, who certified her own election in her role as secretary of state, allegedly won the governorship with 50.3 percent of the vote, 1,287,890 votes, while Lake secured 49.7 percent of the vote, 1,270,774 votes. A difference of 17,116.

If Lake’s claims are proven correct, then the Supreme Court’s “competent mathematical basis” to change the election outcome will have been met.

In the State of Arizona, this isn’t unprecedented either; as Phoenix Magazine recounted, the 1916 Arizona Governor’s Election was undecided for over a year when Democrat incumbent George W.P. Hunt successfully challenged the apparent electoral victory of Republican Thomas E. Campbell. The story was dramatic:

“On January 27, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Campbell, having a Certificate of Election, should become the acting de facto governor. Hunt complied, and Campbell moved into the governor’s office. On May 2, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled in Campbell’s favor on the ballot issue, but Hunt appealed the decision on June 26. On December 23, 1917, the Arizona Supreme Court, composed of three Democrats, issued a final unanimous decision siding with Hunt’s ballot interpretation, giving him a 43-vote victory. The court also ruled Campbell’s time as governor would be uncompensated, and he had to pay Hunt’s legal bills and court expenses.”

It hasn’t happened in over a century, but a legal path clearly exists for Kari Lake to still be sworn in as Arizona’s 25th Governor.

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