Election denier Kari Lake has filed a lawsuit against election officials in Arizona and is seeking a court order that declares her the winner of the gubernatorial election she lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs.
Lake’s 70-page lawsuit names Hobbs, Arizona’s current secretary of state, and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer as defendants, along with other election officials in Maricopa, according to the filing on Friday with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
In the the suit, Lake claimed that election day glitches in Maricopa, the state’s most populous county, intentional “created chaos” that disproportionately disenfranchised Republican voters.
Lake asked the court to “set aside the certified result of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election and declare that Kari Lake is the winner of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election.”
“Lake received the greatest number of votes and is entitled to be named the winner. Alternately, the election must be re-done in Maricopa County to eliminate the effects of maladministration and illegal votes on the vote tallies reported by Maricopa County,” the lawsuit says.
Hobbs’ campaign manager Nicole DeMont slammed the lawsuit in a statement on Saturday calling it a “nuisance.”
“Kari Lake needs attention like a fish needs water,” DeMont said. “Independent experts and local election officials of both parties have made clear that this was a safe, secure, and fair election.”
