UPDATE, 3/14/24: “BREAKING: Kari Lake Goes To the (U.S.) Supreme Court, Brings New/Not New Allegations To Outlaw Voting Machines (READ Petition)”
Kari Lake and Mark Finchem told the U.S. Supreme Court today that they have uncovered new evidence of unlawful conduct in past Maricopa County elections, and that the Justices should therefore find that they had standing to file their 2022 suit to ban electronic voting machines.
While not repeating the claims they made in the lower courts that Arizona does not use paper ballots, Lake/Finchem attorneys Kurt Olsen and Larry Joseph do claim to have recently discovered that Maricopa County gave Dominion employees control over the election systems and committed other violations in 2020. Their argument is that the lower courts would not have dismissed the case (and assessed $122,000 in sanctions) but for these discoveries.
Their summary of what they want the Supreme Court to now consider also includes allegations that Maricopa County did not do required logic and accuracy tests, that passwords were not tightly controlled, and software was altered. The full list is found on pp. 17-18 of the Petition, below. However, they are theories that have long been thrown around – maybe even in this case.
Asked about today’s laundry list, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told Arizona’s Law “And, they’re not even new.”
After considering responses, the Supreme Court will conference and decide whether or not to accept review of the case.
Olsen, Alan Dershowitz and Lake’s other attorneys have separately appealed the sanctions to the Ninth Circuit, with oral arguments expected to be in July.
(Previous article: https://arizonaslaw.blogspot.com/2023/10/breaking-9th-circuit-re-dismisses-kari.html)