Arizona Republican Kari Lake appealed her 2022 governor's race election challenge to the Arizona Supreme Court Thursday, even as she runs for a U.S. Senate seat.
Lake posted on X on Wednesday, "I will be filing a Petition for Review with the Arizona Supreme Court tomorrow because I care about our sacred vote and Election Integrity." Her announcement came after the Arizona Court of Appeals dismissed her request for a new trial based on information not previously available when the case first went to court in 2022.
Trending: Country Star John Rich Releases Bible-Inspired 'Revelation': 'There's Never Been a Song Like This Song' In Lake's petition to the Arizona Supreme Court, her attorneys argued that Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs' narrow win should be overturned based on the failure of Maricopa County to conduct the logic and accuracy tests on its vote tabulating machines as required by law.
"Maricopa revealed seven months after the fact, that - without any public announcement, after the tabulators were purportedly certified on October 11, 2022 - Maricopa broke the 'tamper evident seals' on all 446 vote-center tabulators and removed, reformatted, and replaced the memory cards between October 14-18, 2022, for all vote-center tabulators used on Election Day," Lake's attorney wrote.
"The SLOG files show Maricopa began unannounced 'testing' three days after Maricopa and the Secretary certified the tabulators following purported statutorily compliant L&A testing on October 11, finding that 260 of the 446 tabulators experienced the same 'Ballot Misread' and 'Paper-Jam' error codes that arose on Election Day," the court filing says.
Last month, the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the trial court's view that it was only "Sheer speculation" that issues on election day discouraged "a substantial number of predominantly Lake voters" from casting ballots.
Further, regarding signature verification, the court ruled, "Lake did not show that the applicable signature verification procedures were not performed, let alone that non-performance affected an outcome-determinative number of votes." Last year, Maricopa County denied that it failed to follow the logic and accuracy tests required by law.
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