Kari Lake attempts to revive lawsuit aimed at banning electronic voting machines in SCOTUS petition

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Mar 15th, 2024, 6:11 pm


Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a lawsuit that aims to eliminate the use of electronic voting machines in the United States.

The lawsuit, originally filed when Lake was a candidate for governor of Arizona, was dismissed in August 2022. The district court judge overseeing the matter later sanctioned the plaintiffs for making “false, misleading, and unsupported factual assertions” in their filings. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal in October 2023.

The appeal to the nine justices begins with a paean to fears that computerized voting might run roughshod over democracy.

“Public distrust in elections is at an all-time high and growing,” the petition for writ of certiorari reads. “Although electronic voting machines were meant to remedy snafus like the 2000 Florida recount, the flaws that petitioners unearthed in electronic voting machines make hanging chads — the very problem the machines were meant to solve — seem like a blessing. At least there, humans could see and touch ballots and punch cards. By turning elections over to black boxes running software outside the public domain, we surrendered the ability to meaningfully verify the election process.”

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/kari-lake-attempts-to-revive-lawsuit-aimed-at-banning-electronic-voting-machines-in-scotus-petition-arguing-election-results-cannot-be-trusted/

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Full headline: Kari Lake attempts to revive lawsuit aimed at banning electronic voting machines in SCOTUS petition arguing election results ‘cannot be trusted’

Link to filing (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24483629-lake-scotus

Link to filing (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24483629/lake-scotus.pdf

It's like they're zombies on some kind of drug.

[iluvtennis]

1. MAGA is a cult, so they are zombies. n/t

[NonPC]

2. She Is Just a Piece of Sh!t

Just a fungus that we can't get rid of. I hope her political ambitions die when Ruben Gallego beats her in November. So tiresome.

[DoBW]

3. Trump rally

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[AverageOldGuy]

4. They are everywhere

I'm a long time member of the three-person Electoral Board in my little rural VA county.

For a while we were free from this nonsense, but, as does black mold, it has now crept into our county.

Two stories.

ONE. Our General Registrar started out as an assistant registrar 35 years ago and has been registrar for 24 years. You will NEVER meet a more honest, decent, diligent, dedicated person. Born and reared in the county, knows everyone, they know her. Now, a couple of local assholes insist -- when they put their ballot into the scanner for counting -- on asking her if this is a "shredder". She put up with it for two elections but in Nov 2022, she unloaded on both of them. They haven't said a word since, just vote, put their ballot in the scanner, and leave.

TWO. And now one jackass has started a "hand-count my ballot" demand. He marks his ballot, then, folds it, tears a bit off the edge, so it will not scan and must be hand-counted. So far, no one else has followed him although he has put letters to the editor in local paper urging people to do the same. However, VA election law says we don't have to count mutilated ballots . . . we are just waiting to spring it on him.

Goddam but I get so tired of these fools.

And -- the volunteers who work at our polls, who arrive at 5:00 AM, don't leave until around 10:00 PM, are tired of it and we just barely have enough to work the polls. Not looking forward to November.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. I have no problem with optical scanners

for paper ballots, but I draw the line at touchscreen paperless voting.

[Novara]

6. She's not wrong

But of course she is doing this for the wrong reasons.

Paper ballots leave a paper trail. In recounts, you have physical evidence.

And come on, who doesn't think every loser of any election won't call for a recount? Especially republicans who can't ever accept that hey, maybe voters don't fucking like them.