Kari Lake exudes confidence as Maricopa election trial concludes.

Arizona Republican Candidate Claims Signature Verification Issues in Midterm Elections

Background

Kari Lake, an Arizona Republican candidate, has accused Maricopa County of not performing signature verification on hundreds of thousands of early ballots during the November midterms. However, the county has denied these claims.

The Trial

After a three-day trial, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson will issue a decision to determine whether Lake and her lawyers were able to prove their case. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the signature verification issue could go to trial.

Arguments

Lake’s lawyers argue that there was a flood of mail-in ballots in Maricopa County at a time when there were too few workers to verify ballot signatures. They claim that the county ultimately accepted thousands of ballots that had been rejected earlier by workers for having mismatched signatures.

Maricopa County has a failed process for verifying thousands of ballot signatures that even some of its own workers question, her attorneys argued in court. Lake’s lawyers spent most of the trial’s first day showing video and taking testimony from two previous signature screeners who alleged election workers were overwhelmed.

Conclusion

Maricopa Attorney Thomas Liddy rejected Olsen’s conclusion based on those calculations during last week’s trial. He stated that there was no competent, mathematical calculation to conclude that a sufficient number of votes were improperly counted so as to affect the election’s outcome.