Judge Rules Kari Lake Lawsuit Seeking Mail-In Ballot Signatures Will Go to Trial

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Arizona Republican candidate Kari Lake announced an upcoming trial date in a lawsuit to acquire mail-in ballot signatures nearly a year after the November 2022 midterm election.

“We are scheduled for a 2-day trial set for September 21 & 25th,” Mrs. Lake wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, over the weekend. “I will never stop fighting for Honest & Transparent Elections.”

In a separate statement to The Gateway Pundit, Mrs. Lake also said that the recent court order “is a huge victory for election transparency.”

“Weโ€™re moving forward,โ€ she said.

Superior Court Judge John R. Hannah Jr. wrote (pdf) on Aug. 24 that a two-day trial will start on Sept. 21 at 9 a.m., with exhibits that will be submitted during the trial due by Sept. 14.

Earlier in the year, a Maricopa County Superior Court judgeย ruled that Mrs. Lake’s request to accessย affidavit envelopes shouldn’t be dismissed. Mr. Hannah wrote in June that county recorders generally include ballot affidavit envelopes in voter registration records, saying that theย court is โ€œnot required to defer to the elections officials in how they have historically interpretedโ€ the law.

He refuted arguments that were submitted by Maricopa County lawyers, who had argued that ballot affidavit signatures are a portion of the voter registration record. They’re also considered confidential under state law, the lawyers said.

โ€œI am not convinced that the ballot affidavit is a voter registration record,โ€ Mr. Hannah told the Arizona Capitol Times two months ago. โ€œIt is a record from which the election officials derive information that becomes part of the voter registration record, but that doesnโ€™t mean the ballot affidavit itself is a voter registration record.โ€

Starting last year, Mrs. Lake has attempted to contest the results of the 2022 election in court, while her Democrat opponent, Katie Hobbs, was sworn in as governor in early January. Multiple courts in Arizona have dismissed her lawsuits, although Mrs. Lake has said that she’ll take her challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court if need be.

Mrs. Lake, a former local television anchor, argued that thousands of Republican voters were disenfranchised on Election Day due in part to voting machine problems that were confirmed by Maricopa County officials on that day. The GOP candidate has also pointed to what she called problems with Maricopa’s signature verification process for mail-in ballots.

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer had announced in June that he was suing Mrs. Lake for defamation and alleged that she falsely accused him of misdeeds during the 2022 election. Last week, Mrs. Lake filed a motion and asked Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jay Adleman to dismiss Mr. Richerโ€™s defamation lawsuit because it violates state law.

Her lawyers said in the court filing that Mr. Richerโ€™s lawsuit should be thrown out because he brought the suit to โ€œdeter, retaliate against, and prevent Defendantsโ€™ lawful exercise of their free speech rights on the core public issue of election integrity.โ€

Byย Jack Phillips

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