For tweeting pictures of voter signatures, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has filed a criminal referral against GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake. Citing Lake’s tweet about a week earlier that showed 16 voter signatures, Fontes, a Democrat, sent the referral to Attorney General Kris Mayes on Monday.
A court in Arizona decided against Republican Kari Lake’s legal challenge to the outcome of the November governor election, in which Democrat Katie Hobbs was proclaimed the winner by around 0.5 percentage points.
Friday, the Arizona court handling Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s legal challenge of November’s election gave her team access to check votes cast. Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson signed an order that ordered Maricopa County to allow Lake’s attorneys to review a total of a hundred-fifty randomly selected ballots.
In response to claims of election-day problems in Maricopa County, Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake provided an update on Monday, stating that her attorneys are attempting to acquire additional evidence and “whistleblowers are coming forward” in response to claims of election-day problems in Maricopa County.
Some opening shots have been fired in what is anticipated to be a vicious post-election battle over whose ballots should be counted in Arizona’s race for governor.