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December 28, 2022
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As expected, after dismissing a number of serious and legitimate charges, then setting an impossibly high bar, the judge in Kari Lake’s lawsuit against Democrat Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County ruled against her and ordered that the election stand. This despite the fact that it could not have been more obviously botched if it had been run by blind chimpanzees. The judge put a number of extra-legal conditions on the case, such as demanding that the plaintiffs prove not just that the election was fatally flawed (which they did), but that it was intentional (the point of which I don’t get: should voters simply accept elections that are fatally flawed by incompetence?)

The ruling was so one-sided and unfair, some observers voiced suspicions that it was ghostwritten by Mark Elias, the Democrat lawyer in charge of destroying election integrity.

https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/12/26/the-dismissal-of-kari-lakes-election-lawsuit-shows-voter-disenfranchisement-no-longer-matters-n2617566

For me, perhaps the most infuriating moment of the trial came when the Maricopa County Attorney claimed that “you reap what you sow” when you encourage your voters to wait until Election Day to vote, as if expecting to be able to vote on Election Day without facing hours-long lines and disenfranchisement is a crazy notion and somehow it's the voters’ fault. This person doesn’t belong in a position of public responsibility; he belongs in an unemployment line.

https://truthpress.com/news/maricopa-county-attorney-goes-on-bizarre-rant-you-reap-what-you-sow/

Displaying a mind-boggling level of gall, Hobbs and the Maricopa morons are asking for sanctions on Lake to make her pay their legal bills, accusing her of launching a “groundless, 70-page election contest lawsuit” against them.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2022/12/26/katie-hobbs-maricopa-county-file-lawsuit-demanding-sanctions-against-kari-lake-n679426

The fact that it included 70 pages of evidence, sworn witness testimony and whistleblower complaints suggests that “groundless” is not the correct adjective. Indeed, during the trial, the judge did let the plaintiffs examine 113 random ballots and 42.5% turned out to be flawed in ways that rendered them illegitimate, primarily by being 19-inch ballots printed on 20-inch paper that couldn’t be read by the tabulators, for reasons that still remain a mystery. The "sanctions" are obviously an intimidation tactic, designed to scare citizens into giving up their First Amendment rights to free speech and to petition the government for redress of grievances when they believe their so-called "leaders" are abusing the system and lying to them.

Lake has vowed to appeal, and I wish her luck. In the meantime, I think the best summation of this verdict that I’ve heard so far came from a Twitter user who put it into one short sentence: “This is like the cops telling you they caught the woman who stole your car, but she gets to keep it and you have to pay for the gas for the next four years.”

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  • Bob Machen

    12/28/2022 02:11 PM

    I live in Maricopa County Mike, and to be honest about this, I saw it coming.
    Sadly, we get what we vote for, or at least what our ballots show that we voted for,
    and we receive what we'll tolerate.
    Until Americans are prepared to hit the streets, this kind of thing will be the norm.
    We've been complacent for much too long, and now we're paying.

  • Randy Snell

    12/28/2022 01:23 PM

    Reminds me of the way Dino Rossi was left swinging in the breeze by WA Republicans in 2004. HRC paid for the third recount, which cleverly included provisional ballots. WA Republicans did virtually nothing.

  • Deborah Ann Goodner

    12/28/2022 01:22 PM

    Less and less faith in our elections and those running them, and even less faith in our government. Thankful that I have faith in the only ONE who truly matters. "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God." Psalm 20:7

  • Jean OMara

    12/28/2022 01:22 PM

    Why is it that in these articles re injustice (not just your articles but almost across the board) judges, attorneys and attorney generals never have names? Their names need to be published so 'the people' know who the traitors are in their midst, and hopefully.. eventually, hold them accountable for their treason.

  • Ed Thompson

    12/28/2022 12:55 PM

    VOTER ID. Mail in ballots ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT get to their voting place— military— out of state folks— period! NO MORE EARLY VOTING— observed voting by both parties— election results held till late evening on the same day so the entire country has not been influenced by the media. These few simple things would make our electoral process way better than where it’s going now. Paper ballots worked for many years, electronic voting can be done better too.

  • Stephen Ernest Mitchell

    12/28/2022 12:41 PM

    Wow !! What a surprise ! Knock me over with a feather ! Do you people have blinders on , or are you just plain stupid ? I don't know how many times that I have to write it , or say it ,IF YOU DON'T CONTROL THE JUDICIAL PART OF GOVERNMENT , THEN THESE ARE THE DECISIONS THAT WILL BE HANDED DOWN !! The system is corrupt , and you can thank BOTH PARTIES FOR IT !! Just look at the vote to pass the " Omnibus budget " , that should tell you everything you need to know !