Kari Lake Reveals New Evidence In Latest Return To Court In Arizona 2022 Election Case

Having cleared the considerable legal obstacle of a motion to dismiss, the ongoing saga of Kari Lake's legal battle with Maricopa County, Arizona will now resume. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson will convene a new trial on Wednesday, May 17th. At issue before the court is whether the County that encompasses the states' most powerful and populous cities properly verified signatures on ballot affidavit envelopes in accordance with state law.

According to The Associated Press, Judge Thompson said that the Lake campaign doesn't contest whether the voters' signatures matched the voting records but rather is raising the allegation that county officials failed to even check the signature verifications at any higher level than a cursory check taking only seconds. By law, signatures flagged in that initial check must be verified.

 

We’re going to Court. Get ready! 😎

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) May 16, 2023

Lake has since the questionable outcome of the 2022 race, one mired by printer errors and inconsistencies at dozens of polling places, fought a lengthy legal struggle bringing multiple claims before the courts. Many of these were struck down with seemingly little consideration given to the evidence, to the delighted howls of derision and condemnation from the left and the media, and even token sanctions from the courts.

However, the State Supreme Court ruled in March that her signature verification claim, by far the strongest, must be considered after Thompson initially dismissed it. 

As reported by The Arizona Sun Times, Lake's attorney Kurt Olsen told Thompson and the court that new evidence recently revealed has shown "clear misconduct and intent."

"This evidence supports our allegation that the election was rigged."

Olsen explained that the new evidence supporting Lake's allegations came in the form of system log files and tabulator records which were withheld from Lake's legal team until a few months ago, after the initial trial concluded.
 

Your vote is sacred.

It's sickening to see Maricopa County water it down like this.

"You are about to see 90 seconds of the signature verification process where one person is verifying signatures as fast as they can load. Compared to the person sitting next to him." pic.twitter.com/AHNLH9NiPK

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) May 16, 2023

The attorney then outlined four deficiencies in the previous trial according to the Sun-Times:

• "First, he said the new evidence refutes the testimony of Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett regarding problems with ballots printing. The tabulators failed to recognize many of the ballots on Election Day because they were 19-inch ballots printed on 20-inch paper. Jarrett testified at trial on the first day that this problem did not happen. On the second day of trial, he testified that it had occurred, and said the county was performing a root-cause analysis, which was ongoing. Jarrett claimed that it was determined that some techs not authorized by the county made some changes to the printer configurations on site."
  • Olsen refuted this with documentation from cyber expert Clay Parikh saying, “The new evidence shows this was absolutely false.”
• "Additionally, Olsen cited a report the county solicited from former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Ruth McGregor investigating the printing problem. He said McGregor found that while performing tests of the printers, some started misprinting, which no technical experts could explain. Olsen said since it happened with two different brands of printers, it was due to either malware or someone remotely accessing the printers."
  • Olsen further asserted that Jarrett falsely claimed this error only took place at three voting centers, random checks showed it happened at at least four different locations.
• Finally, Olsen accused the County officials of lying about the dates that Logic and Accuracy tests of the voting machines and printers were performed as required by law, performing them days later. 

Olsen stated that "new and compelling evidence shows "Maricopa falsely certified it passed Logic and Accuracy testing, and afterwards, secretly tested all 446 vote center tabulators on October 14th, 17th, and 18th, and knew that 260 of the vote center tabulators would fail on Election Day,” according to the Sun-Times.

Even more compelling was the revelation that the tabulators weren't reconfigured to accept early and provisional ballots Olsen said. The county went in and reconfigured them later, without re-testing the equipment as required under Arizona law. Olsen told the court the county held back that information for seven months. Therefore Olsen contends, all the tabulators were voided.

It logically extends that if the tabulators were void, then any counts generated by them are equally so, thus voiding the results of the election in its entirety.

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