{"id":2293780,"date":"2024-07-12T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-appeals-case-to-az-supreme-court-two-thirds-of-ballot-machines-malfunctioned-on-election-day-2022-filing-states\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T23:22:15","slug":"kari-lake-appeals-case-to-az-supreme-court-two-thirds-of-ballot-machines-malfunctioned-on-election-day-2022-filing-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-appeals-case-to-az-supreme-court-two-thirds-of-ballot-machines-malfunctioned-on-election-day-2022-filing-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Lake Appeals Case to AZ Supreme Court: Two-Thirds of Ballot Machines Malfunctioned on Election Day 2022, Filing States"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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-appeals-case-to-az-supreme-court-two-thirds-of-ballot-machines-malfunctioned-on-election-day-2022-filing-states%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=2293780&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>Arizona Republican Kari Lake has\u2062 appealed\u200b her\u200d 2022\u2062 governor&#8217;s\u200c race election challenge to the Arizona Supreme Court, while also running for a U.S. Senate seat.\u200b Lake&#8217;s petition argues for the overturning of Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs&#8217; narrow win due to alleged failures in the election process, such as the failure to\u2064 conduct required tests \u2062on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-complaint-300k-votes-from-2020-unverified-in-georgias-fulton-county\/\" title=\"New Complaint: 300k+ Votes From 2020 Unverified in Georgia\u2019s Fulton County\">vote tabulating machines<\/a> and mail-in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-secretary-of-state-says-democrats-are-criticizing-voting-law-in-order-to-take-over-federal-elections\/\" title=\"GA Secretary Of State Says Democrats Are Criticizing Voting Law In Order To Take Over Federal Elections\">ballot signature verification<\/a>. Despite the\u200c Arizona Court of Appeals dismissing Lake&#8217;s previous request for a new trial, she and her attorneys are pushing forward with their claims in hopes of addressing the issues they believe impacted the election results. The ongoing \u200ccontroversy \u200chighlights the importance of election \u200bintegrity and the significant impact it can have on the outcome\u200b of political races.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/randydesoto\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/randydesoto\/%20\"><span>Randy DeSoto<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 12, 2024 at 3:04pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Arizona Republican Kari Lake appealed her 2022 governor\u2019s race election challenge to the Arizona Supreme Court Thursday, even as she runs for a U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>Lake posted on X on Wednesday, \u201cI will be filing a Petition for Review with the Arizona Supreme Court tomorrow (7\/11) because I care about our sacred vote and Election Integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8BREAKING\ud83d\udea8<br \/> I will be filing a Petition for Review with the Arizona Supreme Court tomorrow (7\/11) because I care about our sacred vote and Election Integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kari Lake (@KariLake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1811291160255824174?\">July 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her announcement came after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kari-lake-lawsuit-accuses-maricopa-county-unlawful-certification-voting-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Court of Appeals<\/a> dismissed her request for a new trial based on information not previously available when the case first went to court in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In Lake\u2019s petition to the Arizona Supreme Court, her attorneys argued that Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs\u2019 narrow win (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-arizona-governor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0.6 percent or approximately 17,000 votes<\/a>) 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.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the county did not perform the mail-in ballot signature verification the law demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Election Day, Maricopa vote centers experienced ballot-reading errors \u2014 rejecting an average of over 7,000 ballots every 30 minutes from shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-to-a-democratic-iran-iranians-burn-campaign-posters-refuse-to-vote-in-unprecedented-boycott-of-sham-presidential-election\/\" title=\"\u2018Yes To A Democratic Iran:\u2019 Iranians Burn Campaign Posters, Refuse To Vote In Unprecedented Boycott Of \u2018Sham\u2019 Presidential Election\">polls opened<\/a> until polls closed \u2014 causing massive lines and wait times, interfering with the voting rights of tens of thousands of predominately Republican voters,\u201d the brief said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here is the problem w\/ what happened in Maricopa County on Election Day. This is Anthem, north of Phoenix at about 1:15 pm. Ruby red district of about 30K people. Only one polling location. Ballot tabulators not working in the morning. 2 hr wait to vote midday and still at 6 pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CY35yQWwq5\">pic.twitter.com\/CY35yQWwq5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randy DeSoto (@RandyDeSoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandyDeSoto\/status\/1592211713239109632?\">November 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMaricopa revealed seven months after the fact, that \u2014 without any public announcement, after the tabulators were purportedly certified on October 11, 2022 \u2014 Maricopa broke the \u2018tamper evident seals\u2019 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,\u201d Lake\u2019s attorney wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SLOG files show Maricopa began unannounced \u2018testing\u2019 three days after Maricopa and the Secretary certified the tabulators following purported statutorily compliant L&#038;A testing on October 11, finding that 260 of the 446 tabulators [nearly two-thirds] experienced the same \u2018Ballot Misread\u2019 and \u2018Paper-Jam\u2019 error codes that arose on Election Day,\u201d the court filing says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn short, Maricopa had advance notice that tabulators would reject ballots on Election Day and did nothing to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lake\u2019s attorneys concluded, \u201cIf Maricopa had properly conducted L&#038;A testing as it falsely testified it had, the testing would have identified \u2014 and thus prevented \u2014 the 2022 Election Day chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlternatively, if Maricopa had not falsely testified that it conducted L&#038;A testing, Lake could have presented this issue during the December 2022 bench trial \u2014 before the gubernatorial term began \u2014 and in her first appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for signature verification, Lake\u2019s petition stated, \u201cMaricopa\u2019s keystroke logs showed that its signature reviewers compared 275,000+ early ballot signatures with record signatures in under three seconds per signature, and 70,000 signatures in under two seconds per comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lake\u2019s expert testified at trial \u201cthat it is impossible to \u2018compare\u2019 ballot-envelope signatures with record signatures, as required by A.R.S. \u00a7 16-550(A) and Maricopa\u2019s stated signature procedures at those speeds,\u201d according to her Supreme Court filing.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Arizona Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/24742555\/lake-appeal-shot-down.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upheld<\/a> the trial court\u2019s view that it was only \u201csheer speculation\u201d that issues on election day discouraged \u201ca substantial number of predominantly Lake voters\u201d from casting ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Further, regarding signature verification, the court ruled, \u201cLake did not show that the applicable signature verification procedures were not performed, let alone that non-performance affected an outcome-determinative number of votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Maricopa County denied that it failed to follow the logic and accuracy tests required by law.<\/p>\n<p>The county posted on social media that the test was live-streamed.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the county explained there was no issue with new memory cards being installed in the machines after the L&#038;A testing was completed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Claim: \u201cMaricopa County did secret testing of tabulation equipment. Just look at this video!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facts: If it was a secret, why did we livestream it? That\u2019s the opposite of secret. People interested in the facts can find those in our May 10 court filing. Excerpt below: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kwo35exdEk\">pic.twitter.com\/Kwo35exdEk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1663640603111071744?\">May 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA judge already considered this supposedly \u2018new\u2019 evidence in Ms. Lake\u2019s election contest and found it unconvincing,\u201d Maricopa said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. 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They lose control. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>A monthly Western Journal Membership costs less than one coffee and breakfast sandwich each month, and it gets you access to ALL of our content \u2014 news, commentary, and premium articles. You\u2019ll experience a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/making-a-dent-liability-fears-are-driving-providers-to-drop-gender-affirming-care-for-kids-even-where-its-legal\/\" title=\"Liability fears force providers to abandon &#039;Gender-Affirming Care&#039; for kids, despite legality.\">radically reduced number<\/a> of ads, and most importantly you will be vitally supporting the fight for America\u2019s soul in 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We are literally counting on you because without our members, The Western Journal would cease to exist. Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Republican Kari Lake is taking her election challenge to the Arizona Supreme Court after the Court of Appeals dismissed her request for a new trial. Lake&#8217;s attorneys argue that Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs&#8217; narrow win should be overturned due to failures in Maricopa County&#8217;s election procedures. Lake&#8217;s petition alleges that the county did not conduct required tests on vote tabulating machines and did not verify mail-in ballot signatures as required by law. The Court of Appeals previously ruled that issues on election day did not discourage a substantial number of Lake voters from casting ballots and that signature verification procedures were performed. Maricopa County denies any wrongdoing and claims that the required tests were livestreamed. 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