Lake appeals to have courts reconsider 2022 gubernatorial case

Kari Lake is appealing to the Arizona Supreme Court to have the courts reconsider her case over her 2022 gubernatorial election loss to Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) after a panel on the Court of Appeals tossed out her case last month.

Lawyers for Lake wrote in their filing, obtained by Arizona’s Law, that a new election should be conducted or 275,000 ballots should be struck, which would deliver a victory for Lake, after claiming that “based on new information,” a majority of vote center tabulators in Maricopa County failed and “averaging over 7,000 ballot rejections every thirty minutes shortly after polls opened to polls closing.”

The lawsuit claims “Maricopa did not conduct pre-election logic and accuracy (‘L&A’) testing … on any vote center tabulators used on Election Day” and that Maricopa County allegedly had evidence before Election Day of faulty vote center tabulators but didn’t fix the problem beforehand. 

Lake has refused to concede the results of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, where she narrowly lost to Hobbs by less than 20,000 votes. The former local news anchor has filed multiple lawsuits over the results, though they’ve largely been rejected by the courts. 

Lake is now running for Senate against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). An aggregate of Arizona polls surveying the Arizona Senate race compiled by Decision Desk HQ show Gallego leading Lake, 45 percent to 43 percent. 

Gallego slammed Lake’s latest filing, writing on social platform X, “As @KariLake begs Arizonans to make her the next Senator, she’s pushing the courts to overturn the 2022 election and make her the Governor.”  

“She’s delusional. She’s unfit to serve. She’s too extreme for Arizona,” he added. 

However, Lake’s campaign argued in a statement that she was “keeping her word” by fighting to make sure Arizonans’ votes counted.

“While Ruben Gallego is in DC fighting to allow illegal aliens to vote, Kari Lake is keeping her word to the people of Arizona that she will continue to fight in the courts so that every legal vote in Arizona counts,” Caroline Wren, a senior advisor to Lake, told The Hill in a statement.

The Maricopa County recorder’s office said it had no comment.