Maricopa County judge orders 2-day trial in Kari Lake's election suit

Kari Lake's lawsuit filed on December 9th in Maricopa County, Arizona regarding the gubernatorial election will go to trial, as ruled by a judge Monday. Lake alleges that “hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected” the Nov. 8 election, which led to Hobbs being declared the winner. The suit apparently “contains more than 270 exhibits of evidence.” 

Lake’s suit also relies on expert witness testimony:

We have 270 exhibits of evidence

Our whistleblowers are people who were intimately involved in the process

Every one of them is willing to speak to these facts under the penalty of perjury

We have the facts,we have the law, & we have precedent on our side

We also have faith.

— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) December 19, 2022

Last week Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson agreed to allow Lake’s legal team to “inspect a small number of printed and early ballots from the election. The inspection includes 50 that were marked ‘spoiled’ on Election Day.” That inspection is scheduled to begin today, Tuesday, December 20, so grab your popcorn and sit back.

After a Monday hearing the judge tossed eight of the claims in Lake’s lawsuit while allowing two to remain alleging an intentional plot by election officials to manipulate the election in favor of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic opponent.

 In two separate orders, he ruled that a two-day trial will take place before Jan. 2, and that Hobbs and County Recorder Stephen Richer would be required to testify as Lake requested.

The ruling stated that Lake has “alleged intentional misconduct sufficient to affect the outcome of the election and thus has stated an issue of fact that requires going beyond the pleadings,” and that at trial Lake must show that the county’s serendipitous printer malfunctions were intentional and designed to affect the election results, and that the actions “did actually affect the outcome.”

Hobbs’ attorneys argued that “Lake’s case should be thrown out because it doesn’t adhere to state standards for a valid election complaint” and asked for sanctions against Lake and her attorneys:

Kurt Olsen, one of Lake’s attorneys, meanwhile portrayed the lawsuit as an expose of systemic problems, failures and possible illegal acts by election officials that led to “massive failure” at the polling stations and “tens of thousands” of disenfranchised voters.

Lake’s attorneys include Bryan Blehm, who was a lawyer for Cyber Ninjas, the contractor hired by the state Senate for its review of the 2020 election, and Kurt Olsen, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who recently was ordered to pay sanctions in a federal suit brought by Lake and Finchem that a judge said contained frivolous and baseless claims.

Olsen said the judge should take the affidavit seriously of  “top cyber expert” Clay Parikh, whose analysis concluded that the county’s “system-wide” failures could only be explained by intentional manipulation of county officials. 

An analysis “based on science” also showed that 15,000 to 29,000 votes were disenfranchised, Olsen said, without having consulted Doctor Anthony Fauci, who is science, nor Doctor Jill Biden who is one of the world's most eminent doctors. 

Olsen also claimed the county mysteriously “found” 25,000 “extra voters” two days after the polls closed, which adds to the serendipity of the election for Hobbs.

Lake will update the crowd at Turning Point USA’s AMFEST in Phoenix Tuesday, she said.

I will be taking the stage tomorrow at #AmFest2022 to update America on our huge win in Court today. I promise you — this is one speech you do not want to miss. BE THERE.

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 20, 2022

Stay tuned, my faithful GOPers. This is going to be quite interesting.

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