Kari Lake Files New Lawsuit with New Evidence, Logs Show No Signature Matching for 275,000 Mail-In Ballots

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Kari Lake Files New Lawsuit with New Evidence, Logs Show No Signature Matching for 275,000 Mail-In Ballots

September 18th, 2023

Awake Goy

Grandma Kari Lake

AZ gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed a new lawsuit presenting new evidence that she may have won her 2022 race, and called for a new vote referring to the presently seated AZ governor Katie Hobbs as a “squatter.”

[Complaint: Lake v. Hobbs No. 2CA-CV23-0144]

The complaint brought by Lake introduces new evidence which was obtained after Maricopa County responded to an open public records act request for computer logs, and other materials.

The complaint alleges that system logs and official Maricopa County records show that:

The Maricopa election department knew that 260 out of its 446 vote tabulating machines were malfunctioning as it headed into the election, in a manner which severely impacted the in-person Republican vote, in which Republicans outnumbered Democrats in in-person voting by 3 to 1. On election day the 60% of tabulator machines which malfunctioned were almost all in Republican-leaning districts. On that day, vote-center tabulators at over 60% of Maricopa’s vote centers rejected defective ballots printed by ballot-on-demand (“BOD”) printers more than 200,000 times, causing long lines in Republican-leaning districts, but not Democratic ones.
When asked to extend voting hours by three hours, a type of request almost always granted in elections, a Maricopa judge refused the request.

Line in Marley Park, Maricopa County on election day, 60% registered Republicans

Massive lines spotted at Marley Park in Surprise, AZ! Stay in line, vote in person. pic.twitter.com/USvF3HNrk3

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 8, 2022

In stunning sworn testimony in 2022, Maricopa County Elections Co-Directory Scott Jarrett said that changes to machines which caused problems with vote tabulators were made on election day (below).

.@KariLake Attorney Kurt Olson:

"Is it your testimony that the printer set changes that led to the so-called "shrink to fit" issue was that done on Election Day?"

Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett:

"That's correct." pic.twitter.com/hDAgiqdXU6

— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) December 22, 2022

New evidence, worker keystroke logs, shows that approximately 70,000 mail ballots could not have been properly signature matched, as required, as some keystroke logs showed only 2 seconds spent per ballot, an “impossible” rate with not even enough time for the required images to load onto the computer screen. Another 205,000+ signatures were compared in 2-3 seconds per comparison, for a total of at least 275,000 mail-in ballots which could not have undergone proper signature verification. The election loss margin was less than 20,000 votes.

Numerous other election procedures mandated by AZ election law were not followed, such as rules for observers of both parties being present during machine testing and mail-in ballot signature matching.

Below: Precincts affected by vote tabulation machine problems, causing long lines and causing hundreds of thousands of votes not to be immediately counted. Source: Arizona Sun Times

Some excerpts from the new complaint are:

“Maricopa conducted unannounced testing of all 446 vote-
center tabulators beginning on October 14 and knew that
260 of those tabulators rejected ballots.” -page iv

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“Maricopa falsely certified that it conducted [Logic and Accuracy] testing in accordance with [mandated election manual procedures] on October 11, 2022, complete with the required public notice and observers, which in reality was simply kabuki theatre…Maricopa “made a program change” on October 10, 2022” and …conducted unannounced testing…on all 446 vote-center tabulators on October 14, 17, and 18, during which 260 of the 446 vote-center tabulators rejected ballots, an error that was not remedied prior to Election Day.” – page 17

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“…roughly 70,000 voter signatures on ballot affidavits were “compared” for consistency with voters’ signatures from registration records in less than two seconds per comparison.” – page 30

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“Another 205,000+ signatures were compared in 2-3 seconds per comparison.” – page 30

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“…many verification workers approved the signatures they
reviewed at these speeds at rates of 99 to 100%.” – page 30

Lake is asking the court to order the Maricopa’s 2022 election to be “set aside” ans another election to be held with “squatter” Hobbs, per Miller, 179 Ariz. at 180; Reyes, 191 Ariz.

Observer Law Can Be Seen Violated on Video, Judge Refused to Allow Video in Court

Clearly indicating that all tabulator machine testing and operations are intended to be maximally transparent, AZ law mandates “testing shall be observed by at least two election inspectors, who shall not be of the same political party, and shall be open to representatives of the political parties, candidates, the press and the public.”

AZ law further mandates that reports must be filed by the County to the Secretary of State’s office, reporting tabulator errors and actions taken to correct the malfunctions until an “errorless count” is achieved before any machine is approved for live use.

Yet in live surveillance video recorded, unbeknownst to the Maricopa election department, by the Kari Lake forces, election workers can be seen manipulating tabulation machines in the absence of any observers on October 14, 17, and 18. When Lake attempted to introduce the video as evidence in a previous lawsuit, the judge, Peter Thompson, refused to allow it.

Maricopa County tabulator machines being worked on outside of the presence of observers (view at Rumble)

AZ law A.R.S. § 16-449(A), “Required test of equipment and programs; notice; procedures manual,” states:

“the secretary of state, shall have the automatic tabulating equipment and programs tested to ascertain that the equipment and programs will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures. Public notice of the time and place of the test shall be given at least forty-eight hours prior thereto by publication once in one or more daily or weekly newspapers published in the town, city or village using such equipment, if a newspaper is published therein, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation therein. The test shall be observed by at least two election inspectors, who shall not be of the same political party, and shall be open to representatives of the political parties, candidates, the press and the public. The test shall be conducted by processing a preaudited group of ballots so marked as to record a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate and on each measure and shall include for each office one or more ballots that have votes in excess of the number allowed by law in order to test the ability of the automatic tabulating equipment and programs to reject such votes. If any error is detected, the cause therefor shall be ascertained and corrected and an errorless count shall be made before the automatic tabulating equipment and programs are approved. A copy of a revised program shall be filed with the secretary of state within forty-eight hours after the revision is made. If the error was created by automatic tabulating equipment malfunction, a report shall be filed with the secretary of state within forty-eight hours after the correction is made, stating the cause and the corrective action taken. The test shall be repeated immediately before the start of the official count of the ballots in the same manner as set forth above. After the completion of the count, the programs used and the ballots shall be sealed, retained and disposed of as provided for paper ballots.”

For its part the mainstream media has long dropped any pretenses of objectivity when covering Lake’s lawsuits, branding her and anyone who questions an election an “election denier” in headlines.

In December of 2022, AZ Judge Peter Thompson ruled that ‘The Court DOES NOT find clear and convincing evidence of misconduct’, as reported by NBC which characteristically injects the major media bias that Lake’s grievances amount to an effort to “overturn” the election, taking the side of Maricopa with the delicacy of a bludgeon.

Yahoo News headline

In June of this year Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer filed an unusual lawsuit against Lake for “defamation,” after she criticized his performance in the 2022 election. Normally public officials are expected to have a high tolerance for criticism as part of the job.

And in another previously unseen development in the US, County Boards of Supervisors in different AZ counties, who are charged with certifying or not certifying election results according to their consciences, were threatened with felony prosecution by Katie Hobbs and her political allies if they did not certify the election. Some County Supervisors then said they were certifying only “under duress.”

Ron Gould of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors:

“I vote ‘aye’ under duress. I found out today I have no choice but to vote aye or I’ll be arrested and charged with a felony. I don’t think this is what our Founders had in mind…”