Kari Lake files lawsuit against Maricopa County over elections

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed a lawsuit in opposition to Maricopa County officers on Wednesday, accusing them of breaking election legal guidelines and demanding they supply details about voters whose ballots have been impacted by Election Day printer points.

Her case joins different challenges and criticisms hurled at Maricopa County by conservative politicians and personalities previously week.

Lake introduced the lawsuit on “Warfare Room,” a right-wing speak present hosted by former President Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon. She known as the Nov. 8 election “the shoddiest election ever, in historical past.”

“We would like some info,” Lake mentioned. “We’re on a timeline, a really strict timeline on the subject of combating this botched election, they usually’re dragging their toes.”

Seventy of the county’s 223 voting centers experienced problems with on-site printers producing ballots too gentle to be learn by vote-counting machines on Election Day, inflicting frustration and lengthy strains for voters. Lake’s filing alleges that as many as 118 voting places could have skilled issues.

Maricopa County officers declined to touch upon the submitting.

Unofficial election results present Lake dropping by about 17,000 votes to Democrat Katie Hobbs, certainly one of several bruising losses for the GOP, which ran on the high of the poll a slate of candidates casting doubt on elections. An Arizona Republic evaluation of voting patterns discovered that many Republicans didn’t vote for Republican candidates in a few of the largest races of the election.