Arizona political candidates Kari Lake and Mark Finchem are appealing the irregularities of the 2022 Midterm Election all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States thanks to new found evidence. The case involves the software and hardware performance of the vote tabulation machines in the election.
Lake who ran for Arizona Governor two years ago and supposedly lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs is now running as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona. She is petitioning the nation’s highest court to take up a case aimed at banning the use of electronic voting machines to count ballots and force a hand count.
Lake, along with former candidate for Arizona Secretary of State Mark Finchem filed the suit in April 2022. In their suit they allege the electronic ballot tabulators used in Maricopa and Pima counties were “hackable” and as a remedy the courts should place an injunction on their use ahead of the November 2024 election.
Finchem, who lost his election in 2022 as well, and Lake each filed lawsuits after that election seeking to overturn the results. In both cases judges found neither of the candidates could prove there was any fraud, malfeasance, or maladministration that would change the outcomes.
Both Lake and Finchem have not had much luck in their court filings and their attorneys have been given a tough time as well but now new evidence appears to be about the change that.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been involved with this case as well as others all around the country. It is said he has spent millions of dollars of his own money in such legal cases. Lindell’s lead counsel Friday discussed “new evidence” he hopes to put before the Supreme Court in a bid to persuade it to rule that the use of electronic voting system to cast or tabulate votes is unconstitutional.
Lindell has been teaming up for the case with Arizona Republican Kari Lake, who has said her 2022 defeat in the state’s gubernatorial election was marred by fraud. Her most convincing argument was in a talk she gave at a “Save Arizona Rally” where she illustrated two maps overlaid.
The first map showed the Republican areas of Maricopa County in red, the most populated county of Arizona, with some 90% of all residents of Arizona. The second map showed markers in Maricopa County where voting machines either malfunctioned (open markers) or were completely inoperable (filled markers) despite all these voting locations functioning perfectly the day before. Most of the faulty machines were found in Republican districts giving Hobbs an obvious edge.
See picture in this article from her rally. Lake introduces this research is at the 1 hour and 14 minute mark of this video of the rally.
“Save Arizona Rally featuring Kari Lake” – Kari Lake
This past week, it came out that Lindell’s team plans to issue a filing to the Supreme Court seeking to revive a 2022 lawsuit, dismissed by Arizona judges (district/federal/appeal) as “frivolous” at the time. It came from Lake and Finchem challenging the use of electronic voting systems.
Lake and Finchem’s petition read: “Newly uncovered evidence also shows Arizona’s Maricopa County flagrantly violated state law for electronic voting systems—including using altered software not certified for use in Arizona—and actively misrepresented and concealed those violations.”
Speaking on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, attorney Kurt Olson said “We have new evidence that supports standing. This case was dismissed by the lower courts saying that the claims about the machines were to speculative and we have concrete evidence that’s new, that was not known before, where the defendant has told the courts that, ‘Hey, these machines are certified by the election systems committee, their software is certified, we perform logic and accuracy tests, and other matters…’ but those two issues they represent to the court, that this is why the machines are safe, and why the plaintiff’s claims didn’t hold water.”
New Evidence Emerges
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The Kari Lake and Mark Finchem case has traction again, attorney Kurt Olsen told Steve Bannon. The case was dismissed by lower courts on the supposed grounds that claims about voting machines were too speculative. Olsen said lower court rulings were wrong.… pic.twitter.com/OB38m8d4Ov
Attorney Olson goes on to state, “We have uncovered three pieces of evidence.” He then went on to outline them as follows:
1. In 2020 and in 2022 they used altered software and any statement that that software was certified by the EAC is false. (The altered software was related to “machine behaviors”.)
2. The second thing that was false they said the performed logic and accuracy tests and that is a pre-election test designed to give people confidence the machines will actually tabulate and read votes as they are. They did not perform logic and accuracy tests on any of the machines.
3. Cyber experts have uncovered that the master cryptographic encryption keys that are used to govern and encrypt all election data had been left open on the database in plain text,”leaving it vulnerable to tampering.”
Attorney Olson said this new discovery was found by cyber experts who discovered crypto graphic keys such as Rijndael keys, X.505 certificate keys, HMAC keys all used on Dominion voting machines Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption as standard were left open for access to the database during the election process.
Olson sums up their findings saying, “This is one of the most incredible security breaches and I think any cyber security expert professional would agree.”
Olson claims what they found in Arizona for the 2022 Midterm Election has also been found in other swing states around the nation for 2020 General Election.
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