BREAKING: People Are Voting "Kari Lake" for Senate; Today, She Is Asking the AZ Supreme Court To Declare Her Governor

Thousands of people have already voted in the July 30 primary, and presumably, many have voted for Kari Lake to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Today, Lake is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to declare her to be the Governor by reversing the 2022 election.

As promised to Arizona's Law one month ago, Lake filed her Petition for Review last night, waiting the full 30 days allowed by law to appeal the lower courts' rulings against her. 

In it, they argue that the Superior Court and the Court of Appeals judges should have reinstated her case because of "new" evidence that Maricopa County did not conduct the necessary logic and accuracy testing on the vote tabulators. Her new evidence is a declaration by Clay Parikh and her belief that Maricopa County Elections Director later contradicted himself about the testing. 

(Those new evidence claims have been rejected by multiple federal courts in Lake's separate effort to throw out electronic voting machines, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the matter.)

Lake's Petition also renews claims that Maricopa County did not properly verify signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes. The Petition asks the Justices to either order a new 2022 gubernatorial election, or "proportionally strike 275,000 ballots".

"Because Hobbs eclipsed Lake by more than 10% of Maricopa’s early voting, under Grounds, Lake would win."

The Petition was filed by Lake attorneys Kurt Olsen and Jennifer Wright (subbing in for the temporarily suspended Bryan Blehm).

This article was reported by AZ Law founder Paul Weich. 

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