Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed a lawsuit towards Maricopa County elections officers, alleging they broke election legal guidelines. Lake additionally claimed that 118 polling facilities appeared to have a "printer/tabulation downside," though officers beforehand mentioned there have been 60 polling facilities with printer points that have been fastened earlier than polls closed.
Democrat Katie Hobbs, who presently serves as Arizona secretary of state, was projected because the winner of the race 10 days in the past. Lake, an in depth ally of former President Donald Trump who has refused to acknowledge President Joe Biden received the 2020 election, has not but conceded the governor's race.
Lake introduced the lawsuit Wednesday on Steve Bannon's podcast "Conflict Room," calling the 2022 election "the shoddiest election ever, in historical past."
"We would like some data," Lake mentioned. "We're on a timeline, a really strict timeline relating to combating this botched election, and so they're dragging their toes."
On Election Day, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors chairman Invoice Gates mentioned there have been 60 polling websites that had printing issues, and so they have been fastened earlier than polls closed. Gates mentioned then that the printer subject was technical -- the ink did not print darkish sufficient for the machines to be readable.
However Lake alleged within the lawsuit that "due to the printer/tabulator issues, the polling places have been chaotic, voters have been annoyed, and voters needed to endure lengthy strains."
Lake's lawsuit additionally asks for a number of public information, particularly associated to canvassing. The submitting says that with out entry to the requested information, the plaintiff "can't verify the complete extent of the issues recognized and their impacts on electors."
Lake launched a video final week saying she had "assembled the perfect and brightest authorized group, and we're exploring each avenue to right the numerous wrongs which were executed this previous week."
Lake has been alleging issues in Maricopa County, Arizona's largest county which encompasses Phoenix, since Election Day. On Nov. 9, she mentioned on Fox Information that the state had "shoddy elections which can be run by imbeciles" and if elected, she mentioned she would name a particular session of the Arizona Legislature to deal with it.
She additionally mentioned elections officers have been "gradual rolling" the poll counting course of, an allegation that Gates mentioned on Nov. 10 was "offensive."
"We're completely not slow-rolling it and if their group had been paying consideration earlier than the election, they might have heard us discuss this over and over, that we might not have outcomes on election evening and even the subsequent day," Gates mentioned. "That it was going to take a number of days. And fairly frankly it's offensive for Kari Lake to say these individuals behind me are gradual rolling this when they're working 14-18 hours."