Kari Lake asks Arizona court to throw out results of gubernatorial election she ... trends now
Kari Lake has filed a lawsuit challenging the Arizona gubernatorial election results - and is seeking a court order that declares her the winner.
The 70-page suit filed on Friday asks for an order declaring that Lake is the winner of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, or alternatively throwing out the results and requiring the state's Maricopa county to conduct a new election.
Lake has refused to acknowledge that she lost to Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.
The suit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court centers on long lines and other difficulties that people experienced while voting on Election Day in Maricopa County. It also alleges hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally cast, but there's no evidence that's true.
Lake was one of the most high-profile Republican candidates in the midterm elections to embrace former President Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud in 2020.
Kari Lake, who lost the Arizona governor's race to Dem Katie Hobbs, filed a lawsuit challenging certification of the election results and seeking a court order that declares her the winner
Katie Hobbs (pictured) in a post on her Twitter account called the lawsuit 'Lake's latest desperate attempt to undermine our democracy and throw out the will of the voters'
The Donald Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate has bombarded Maricopa County with complaints, largely related to a problem with printers at some vote centers that led to ballots being printed with markings that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators.
Lines backed up in some polling places, fueling Republican suspicions that some supporters were unable to cast a ballot, though there's no evidence it affected the outcome.
County officials say everyone was able to vote and all legal ballots were counted.
In the suit filed on Friday, Lake sued Maricopa County officials and Hobbs in her current role as Arizona's secretary of state.
Sophia Solis, a spokesperson for the secretary of state's office, said Lake's lawsuit was being reviewed but had no other comment on the filing.
Jason Berry, a Maricopa County spokesperson, declined to comment on Lake's request to throw out the county's election results
