{"id":1752168,"date":"2022-11-26T12:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1752168"},"modified":"2022-11-26T12:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:47:52","slug":"kari-lake-files-lawsuit-against-maricopa-county-over-election-day-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-files-lawsuit-against-maricopa-county-over-election-day-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Lake Files Lawsuit Against Maricopa County Over Election Day Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkari-lake-files-lawsuit-against-maricopa-county-over-election-day-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1752168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona<\/a> gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kari-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kari Lake<\/a>\u00a0filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kari-lake-maricopa-county-lawsuit-arizona-governors-race-no-concession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> Wednesday against Maricopa County officials, alleging election law violations and demanding records related to Election Day printer issues.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-two-counties-delay-election-certification-as-ag-issues-letter-concerning-statutory-violations-in-maricopa-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notable problems<\/a> during the November 8 election, including printer and tabulation machine-related issues in at least 70 of the county\u2019s 223 polling locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe filing today was basically just a way for the courts to pressure Maricopa County into giving us public records we have been asking for,\u201d Lake <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1595580731392110592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican blasted county officials over the treatment of \u201cElection Day voters,\u201d which included those printer issues and \u201cthree-hour lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot allow an election like this to stand,\u201d Lake asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Arizona attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh a day earlier filed a lawsuit in State Superior Court in Maricopa County against election officials, alleging \u201ca host of errors and inaccuracies\u201d during the 2022 election process, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/see-you-in-court-rnc-ag-candidate-sue-election-officials-in-arizona-over-alleged-errors-and-inaccuracies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPervasive errors by our election officials resulted in the disenfranchisement of countless Arizonans who had their voices silenced,\u201d Hamadeh said in a statement. \u201cArizonans deserve to have an election system that is transparent and fair and right now we have neither. Today\u2019s challenge is the only way to provide accountability and restore confidence in our broken election system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued Tuesday night, Hamadeh said the 25-page complaint \u201cdetails a host of errors surrounding the administration of the November 2022 General Election concerning alleged election board misconduct, the tallying of unlawful ballots, and the erroneous counting of votes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s outgoing attorney general, Mark Brnovich, ordered Maricopa County officials on November 19 to submit a report on its handling of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said there is evidence, including first-hand witness accounts, of \u201cstatutory violations\u201d in the contest, which Katie Hobbs oversees as secretary of state. Hobbs, a Democrat, is the projected winner of the Arizona gubernatorial contest against Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, at least two counties in the state \u2014 Cochise County and\u00a0Mohave County \u2014 have confirmed that their certification of the 2022 election will be delayed until\u00a0the November 28 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The two Republican supervisors in Cochise County voted November 18 for the delay after some argued the county\u2019s vote-counting machines were not properly certified. State Elections Director Kori Lorick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/decision\/republican-controlled-mohave-county-arizona-delays-certifying-election-for-now\/75-ea0ddb7c-bc5e-4372-8435-980038a315d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened<\/a> the board that the state would sue if it did not certify on time.<\/p>\n<p>In a split vote,\u00a0Mohave County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/decision\/republican-controlled-mohave-county-arizona-delays-certifying-election-for-now\/75-ea0ddb7c-bc5e-4372-8435-980038a315d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> voted to delay\u00a0as a protest against voting issues in Maricopa County.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/see-you-in-court-rnc-ag-candidate-sue-election-officials-in-arizona-over-alleged-errors-and-inaccuracies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018See You In Court\u2019: RNC, AG Candidate Sue Election Officials In Arizona Over Alleged \u2018Errors And\u00a0Inaccuracies\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake\u00a0filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Maricopa County officials, alleging election law violations and demanding records related to Election Day printer issues. Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state, had notable problems during the November 8 election, including printer and tabulation machine-related issues in at least 70 of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1680621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}