Newsweek - Kari Lake Wraps Up Trial With No Clear Evidence to Overturn Election

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kari-lake-wraps-up-trial-with-no-clear-evidence-to-overturn-election/ar-AA15AcwQ

Kari Lake Wraps Up Trial With No Clear Evidence to Overturn Election
Story by Katherine Fung • 37m ago Dec 22

Kari Lake, former candidate for Arizona governor, closed her two-day election trial on Thursday in what is anticipated to be a disappointing ruling for the Republican.

Lake, who was among the most prominent voices promoting former President Donald Trump's election fraud claims, spent two days making the case that she was the rightful winner of November's election. She lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes but asked a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to declare her Arizona's next governor or order a revote in the state's most populous county.

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Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek that Lake's lawsuit is so "frivolous on its face," he's surprised Thompson didn't dismiss it entirely.

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Rahmani said aside from the fact that Lake didn't present any evidence proving intentional printer interference or evidence that ballot chain of custody was violated, "Mere conclusionary allegations aren't enough."

"The law requires actual evidence of intentional wrongdoing," Rahmani explained. "At worst, election officials made a mistake in printing the ballots, but those mistaken ballots were still counted. That type of harmless error is not enough to meet the high bar necessary to overturn an election."

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[Archae]

1. This isn't the end, I'd be willing to bet.

Kari Lake is going to continue throwing her tantrum, all the way to the Supreme Court if she can.

She said herself that only if she won she would accept the results.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. You, Of Course, Are Absolutely Right

Lawyers are working on the Appeal right now, I'm sure.

The lawyers must be ecstatic. They're going to profit from an utterly ridiculous case.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. LOSER Lake....

The water is POISONED....

[louis-t]

3. She will continue judge shopping until she finds

a MAGA judge willing to sell out.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. Won't Be Easy

TFG went 0-70 in his cases contesting 2020 election.

[louis-t]

6. Amazing that they all said pretty much the same thing.

Even the ones he appointed and ones appointed by other republicans. "You have to have an allegation, then you have to have proof. You have neither."

[Celerity]

7. he won one minor case

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/blog-posting/trump-did-not-win-two-thirds-election-lawsuits-whe/

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Of the 15 cases in Droz’s spreadsheet, three were filed on or after Election Day. None of them involved allegations of voter fraud.

And of those three, just one case, filed Nov. 4, had to do with the election results. It centered on reducing the amount of time Pennsylvania voters had to fix errors on their mail-in ballots. The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee were granted an injunction against the secretary of state to prevent extending the proof of ID period by three days. The matter involved a small number of ballots that didn’t change the outcome.

"Trump won one case in the post-election and lost 64," said Marc Elias, a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm who has represented Democrats in the lawsuits.

Trump has not prevailed in any cases that allege voter fraud or seek to overturn the election results.

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8. Poor Kari Lake....

She cannot catch a break,
Too bad she’s such a snake….

[FakeNoose]

9. I hope they handed her a bill for the court costs as she walked out

The only other solution would have been for her to post a bond for the court costs in advance.
That's what they should do for her next worthless lawsuit.