The Fight for Election Integrity Continues -- Audits, Criminal Investigations, Legislative Reform

Just FYI, Kari is Hungary meeting with Pres Orban... and she announced the release of her first book today. Interesting, but I doubt I'll be buying it.

So not much going on... nothing more to post today.

Of course this breaks right after I shut everything down for the night ‐-

Kari Lake’s lawyers fined in failed Arizona election lawsuit

Republican Kari Lake’s lawyers were sanctioned $2,000 Thursday by the Arizona Supreme Court in their unsuccessful challenge of her defeat in the governor’s race last year to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

In an order, the state’s highest court said Lake’s attorney made “false factual statements” that more than 35,000 ballots had been improperly added to the total ballot count. They have 10 days to submit the payment to the court clerk.

The court, however, refused to order Lake to pay attorney fees to cover the costs of defending Hobbs and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, also a Democrat, in Lake’s appeal.

Kari's Twitter retweeted this:

Robert Barnes
@barnes_law

Fact check: false. Missing context. AZ Supreme Court denied sanctions for the petition noting @KariLake won on key issue. AZ Supreme Court denied sanctions for attorneys fees. AZ Supreme Court required small $2K court fee over use of word "undisputed" in 1 sentence. Very minor.

I haven't seen a link for the actual court ruling yet.

ETA: ATS thread --

Kari Lake’s lawyers fined in failed Arizona election lawsuit

Kari Lake War Room
@KariLakeWarRoom

@washingtonpost wrote a puff piece about one of the most corrupt men in Arizona:
@billgatesaz.

This is not a parody.

"Just the other day, a worker came to his home to fix a leaky pipe and wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat. Gates felt anger swelling in his chest. “It was a trigger to see that hat in my house,” he said

Triggered? TRIGGERED???

No one who feels "triggered" by a hat should be in a position of power... and especially not running elections.

I hope this MAGA-hat dude sees this and enjoys a little schadenfreude. 👍

a reply to: Boadicea

Bet you anything he got the work done and got paid.


These people are out of touch.

originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Boadicea

Bet you anything he got the work done and got paid.

These people are out of touch.

No thank you!

That's a sucker bet for sure!!! 😆

NEW: Maricopa County Superior Court Order Sets Status Conference MONDAY to Consider Kari Lake’s Signature Verification Fraud Challenge and Potentially MORE – ORDER INCLUDED

"IT IS ORDERED setting a Status Conference on May 8, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. (30 minutes allotted) before Judge Peter A. Thompson. The parties and counsel may attend either in person or via Teams,” states the new minute entry.

...the Arizona Supreme Court finalized its proceedings, confirming a previous order for the trial court and issuing bogus, meaningless sanctions for Lake’s attorneys over their factual claims. Attorneys for Lake then filed a Motion for Status Conference to expedite the Maricopa County Superior Court’s review.

I can't help but feel that some deal has been struck between the courts/judges or some plan of action. I'm not feeling good about this. But just speculation on my part.

And BTW I'm thinking it's time for a new comprehensive thread regarding Kari's lawsuit -- and specifically regarding the piss poor reporting of the whole truth. I'm working on it.

In the meantime, here's a few more reports--

Arizona voters were told the election went fine. Records show a county director saw glaring errors, cashed out, then fled.

AZ Supreme Court Orders Hearing On Kari Lake’s Signature Verification Case

AZ Supreme Court orders hearing on Kari Lake's signature verification issue, denies attorney fees

Corporate Media Mangles Kari Lake Court Victory, Highlighting Only the Minor Sanction as the “News”

a reply to: Boadicea

I've been wondering why the MSM has been so one sided on this especially.

We have many examples of left wing critters complaining about the integrity of elections in a wide spectrum of reasoning. Furthermore, wouldn't they want to spike the ball? Saying look here! Its all legit you election deniers!!

But no.

When the pendulum swings back and an R is put back in, will we have to do this all again?

It's like The One Ring, instead of destroying it, it keeps going from person to person, destroying the user.

[snip]

with everything going on politically for the past few years or so I'm leaning more and more towards thinking we need to switch to thei ancient athenian style of voting, or random sample voting, where you choose randomly from all candidates, without knowing who you voted for. no one party would be able to dominate one region and campaigning would be pointless, gerrymandering would also not work anymore or lobbying or many other standard undemocratic activities.

originally posted by: namehere
with everything going on politically for the past few years or so I'm leaning more and more towards thinking we need to switch to thei ancient athenian style of voting, or random sample voting, where you choose randomly from all candidates, without knowing who you voted for. no one party would be able to dominate one region and campaigning would be pointless, gerrymandering would also not work anymore or lobbying or many other standard undemocratic activities.

The Blu’s already stopped campaigning, seems to work for record setting vote totals.

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer is reporting the following:

In short, the Arizona Supreme Court has FORCED the lower courts to go back and deal with this issue once again and it seems that the Supreme Court was angry the lower courts kept playing around.

THE GIST OF IT IS

Judge Thompson tentatively scheduled a three-day trial next week beginning on May 17. The trial will occur on May 17th, 18th, and 19th.

Counsel will be required to disclose who will testify, what opinions they will state, and what basis they have prior to trial. Judge Thompson indicated that the new evidence could be introduced, and other counts in the lawsuit may be reconsidered. Motions for Reconsideration, Responses, and Replies are expected in the coming days. Kari Lake attorneys are also expected to file a motion to consolidate the issue of lawful public records requests that the County has denied tomorrow.

Sources are scarce.

UPDATE: Kari Lake Lawsuit Going Back to Trial May 17, 18, 19 – Attorney Kurt Olsen Makes BOMBSHELL Claim of “Extraordinary Findings of Misconduct” By Maricopa County (VIDEO)

Kari Lake attorney Kurt Olsen today made a bombshell claim while asking for the reconsideration of counts relating to machine failures on election day, stating that “Maricopa officials conducted secret testing on the tabulators on October 14th, 17th, and 18th” after the County’s Logic and Accuracy tests. Olsen further stated that “260 of those 446 tabulators failed” but were “then used in the election.”

Thompson tentatively scheduled a three-day trial next week beginning on May 17. The trial will occur on May 17th, 18th, and 19th.

Counsel will be required to disclose who will testify, what opinions they will state, and what basis they have prior to trial.

Judge Thompson indicated that the new evidence could be introduced, and other counts in the lawsuit may be reconsidered. Motions for Reconsideration, Responses, and Replies are expected in the coming days.

Lake attorneys are also expected to file a motion to consolidate the issue of lawful public records requests that the County has denied tomorrow.

a reply to: IndieA
Thanks for the update!

Judge Fast-Tracks Hearing on Kari Lake’s Final Election Challenge 😎

A Maricopa County judge on Monday scheduled oral arguments for Friday about whether or not to hold a trial on a claim made in GOP candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit that contests the 2022 midterm election results.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson on Monday directed attorneys for both parties to file arguments this week to debate in court on Friday, May 12.

In March, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Lake, a former broadcast journalist for a Fox affiliate station, should receive new consideration on one of several election-related claims. The legal claim that was allowed to proceed alleged that Maricopa County erred in its signature verification process during the November election.

K-O-O-L 🤩

WOW!

Signature verification is the only security measure in place to authenticate mail-in ballots in Arizona

Maricopa admits the process is non-scientific & entirely subjective

MULTIPLE whistleblowers will testify over 100,000 ballots are in question due to invalid signatures.

A-N-D 🤩

Maricopa County Attorney La Rue admitted IN COURT today that signature verification is a subjective & non-scientific process.

"It’s not really a hard & fast science... if we would bring signatures in here, Your Honor, you might think some are consistent & I might think they were inconsistent or vice versa."

This is the ONLY security measure for mail-in ballots in Maricopa County.

a reply to: IndieA

Since the entirety of Liberal Media is not talking about this (including partner-in-crime Fox News), the potential revelations and impacts must be HUGE.

Election Integrity Update 5.12.2023

Thanks to JUDICIAL WATCH, Philadelphia/PA has removed 178,000 dead people from being eligible to vote.

Thank-you Tom Fitton: www.judicialwatch.org...

It's PATHETIC that a state must be taken to court/sued, for it to clean up its voter rolls!

I wonder how many of those non-existent Pennsylvania voters are responsible for JOHN FETTERMAN being elected to the U.S. Senate last year?

Good morning my friends!!!

I have lots to post, but much to do today, so I'll get to it as I can.

BOLO!!!

I have lots of background links for this (that I'm still trying to get to), but this is where we are today:

JUST-IN: Maricopa County Judge Confirms Kari Lake is Going Back to Trial May 17, 18, 19

Thompson ruled that the arguments by Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County to dismiss Count III regarding fraudulent signature verification failed and were “not persuasive.”

However, Thompson dismissed Count II regarding intentional election day tabulator failures, despite newly discovered evidence that Maricopa County rigged the election and secretly tested voting machines to fail Republican voters. The new findings show “clear misconduct and intent,” argue Lake’s attorneys.

So trial starts tomorrow. And the above is what Kari needs to prove for a judgment in her favor.

You can watch the hearing on Friday here:

WATCH LIVE NOW: Maricopa County Superior Court Holds Oral Argument in Lake v. Hobbs Case – 9 AM PST

Background on the signature verification issue:

WATCH: Shocking Video Shows Maricopa County’s Fraudulent Signature Verification – Worker “Verifies” Signatures in LESS THAN 2 Seconds Per Signature

“They Dragged Us to Hell and We Are Standing and Fighting Back” – Kari Lake Has THREE Whistleblowers Who Will Testify that 130,000 Did Not Pass Signature Verification — But Election Officials Counted Them Anyway!

More on Kari's lawsuit:

Lake, Hamadeh arguments set for next week, as Arizona election challenges persist 7 months later

In Advance of Possible Trial, Kari Lake’s Attorney Tells Judge During Hearing That Election Was ‘Rigged’ with ‘Clear Misconduct and Intent’

From here and there:

HUGE: O’Keefe Media Group – Citizen Journalist Says Maricopa County Election Director Rey Valenzuela Told Her How to Abuse ERIC Voter Registration System to VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES (VIDEO)

ERIC Voter Registration Non-Profit Loses 25% of Members. Virginia Now Out! – Gutless NPR Blames Gateway Pundit with Their Typical Smears and Lies