Republican Kari Lake files lawsuit in bid to overturn Arizona election

Kari Lake, the GOP campaigner who mislaid Arizona's politician contention successful November, filed a suit Friday challenging certification of the state's predetermination results and seeking a tribunal bid that declares her the winner.

The 70-page suit from Lake, a salient predetermination denier and Trump ally, contains galore inaccuracies astir the predetermination won by Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, Arizona's caput of state.

The suit names Hobbs and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer arsenic defendants, on with different predetermination officials successful Maricopa, claiming their alleged misconduct "nullifies" the results of the predetermination successful the state's astir populous region and that their actions "wrongfully" led to the authorities naming Hobbs arsenic the winner.

"Lake received the top fig of votes and is entitled to beryllium named the winner," the suit states. "Alternately, the predetermination indispensable beryllium re-done successful Maricopa County to destruct the effects of maladministration and amerciable votes connected the ballot tallies reported by Maricopa County."

The suit claims that ballot printer and tabulator failures, which Lake said were intentional, "created chaos" connected Election Day with "oppressively agelong lines" that depressed elector turnout and disproportionately deterred Republican voters who were much apt to formed a ballot successful her favor.

Maricopa County issued a study connected the voting glitches precocious past period aft the state's Republican lawyer general's bureau demanded answers connected wide voting instrumentality glitches. Election officials had urged voters astatine polling sites wherever machines malfunctioned to workout different options, including either dropping their ballots successful a unafraid container to beryllium counted aboriginal successful the time oregon going to different determination to vote.

Lake's suit seeks a bid of tribunal orders, including "setting speech the certified effect of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial predetermination and declaring that Kari Lake is the victor of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election."

Arizona certified its predetermination results connected Monday.

In a connection Friday, Hobbs' run manager blasted Lake's filing of a "sham lawsuit."

"Kari Lake needs attraction similar a food needs h2o — and autarkic experts and section predetermination officials of some parties person made wide that this was a safe, secure, and just election," Hobbs' run manager said.

"Arizonans made their voices heard and elected Katie Hobbs arsenic their governor. No nuisance suit volition alteration that, and we stay laser-focused connected getting acceptable to deed the crushed moving connected Day One of Katie Hobbs' medication adjacent year."