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Lake Warns Supporters ‘Establishment’ Wants to See her Arrested

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OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.


Kari Lake, the former 2022 Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate, has cautioned her supporters that her political opponents are attempting to pursue legal action against her.

She asserted in a brief fundraising message that she is being targeted for “exposing” what she alleges is election fraud in her state by “The establishment” who desire to “ARREST” her.

Last month, she also tweeted headlines from online news outlets suggesting that she might face indictment.

“They want to ARREST me for exposing fraud in the 2022 Election. Now, the AZ Supreme Court has ruled that the very fraud I highlighted has to be looked at. This is big, folks. Hit me with your best shot. I will never, ever back down. Try me,” she tweeted.

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Lake has been battling in court to be heard on claims that thousands of her potential voters were disenfranchised for several reasons, including ballot printer errors and other problems at polling places, especially in Maricopa County.

Late last month, a lawyer for Lake ripped the voter verification process in the state’s most populous enclave, Maricopa County, during the last election.

Lawyer Kurt Olsen’s remarks came after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld most of the rulings by a lower trial court and the Arizona Court of Appeals in favor of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County, though the court did send one of Lake’s claims back to the trial court for further consideration.

The trial court ruled in December that Lake’s claim regarding the county’s failure to follow proper procedures to ensure the identity of voters had been brought up too late. According to the court, Lake, who was a Phoenix-area newscaster for decades, should have raised the issue before the election, the Western Journal reported.

The judge in the case cited the legal doctrine of laches, which holds that plaintiffs must assert their rights in a timely manner, or they may be barred from obtaining a legal remedy. But last week, the Arizona Supreme Court disagreed with that portion of the ruling.

“Contrary to the ruling of the trial court and the Court of Appeals Opinion, this signature verification challenge is to the application of the policies, not to the policies themselves. Therefore, it was erroneous to dismiss this claim under the doctrine of laches because Lake could not have brought this challenge before the election,” the state’s highest court noted.

Olsen told FrankSpeech.com host Emerald Robinson Thursday: “The Supreme Court did remand this case back on the issue of signature verification, which is a very, very significant issue. There are literally over 100,000 ballots in question because of invalid signatures that were accepted and tabulated.”

“This is not a challenge about simply a few bad signatures. … This is about a systemic failure of the entire signature verification process, which is allowing tens of thousands of ballots with signatures that don’t match the record on file. And this is the only security feature for mail-in voting,” Olsen said.

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According to Lake’s legal filing with the Arizona Supreme Court, “whistleblowers conducting signature verification at [the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center] came forward with the evidence that Maricopa disregarded Arizona law and allowed tens of thousands of uncured ballots with nonmatching signatures to be counted.”

The term “curing” ballots refers to the process of contacting voters whose ballots would otherwise be rejected due to errors in order to verify the voter’s identity and correct any mistakes.

“So the question really becomes who is mailing in all these votes with signatures that don’t match the voter signature on file? … It really goes to the heart of a critical issue for the security of mail-in voting,” Olsen told Robinson.

Following the state Supreme Court’s ruling, Lake said in a statement: “Immediately following the election, multiple Maricopa County Elections Department officials — individuals who were involved in the signature verification process — reached out to me and urged my team to review the signatures.

“Three whistleblowers came forward with revelations of massive failures in the signature verification process. These whistleblowers were intimately involved in the process, and they allege that Maricopa County WILLFULLY ignored law and procedure,” she added.

“When we verify these allegations, there will be no doubt that this election was compromised and that its results fail to meet the standard of certainty as outlined in Arizona law,” she noted further.

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