在长期拒绝接受竞选结果后，共和党人卡莉·莱克周五表示提起法律诉讼她在输掉亚利桑那州州长竞选后一直在威胁。
一个公民抱怨星期五向马里科帕县高级法院提起诉讼，任命国务卿兼民主党当选州长凯蒂·霍布斯、马里科帕县记录员斯蒂芬·里奇、选举主任斯科特·贾勒特以及马里科帕县监事会办公室和个人成员。
诉讼中有许多虚假和扭曲的说法，呼应了前总统提出的失败的法律挑战唐纳德·特朗普美国队推翻2020年选举。
该诉讼寻求非同寻常的，前所未有的，可能是非法的救济，完全推翻了该州的选举，并证明她是获胜者，而不是霍布斯。
莱克由布莱恩·布莱姆(Bryan Blehm)和库尔特·奥尔森(Kurt Olsen)代表，布莱恩·布莱姆此前代表网络忍者(Cyber Ninjas)在亚利桑那州审计2020年选举的努力失败，据报道，库尔特·奥尔森在1月6日那天与特朗普交谈，并推动阴谋论以证明推翻选举是合理的。
特朗普2024年竞选律师克里斯蒂娜·鲍勃(Christina Bobb)在周五下班后几分钟发了一张对马里科帕县选举官员提起诉讼的照片。
莱克曾长期担任凤凰城的当地新闻主播，她步她最受欢迎的支持者特朗普的后尘，拒绝接受失败，并提前对选举的诚信提出质疑。周五，她在Bobb之后几分钟发了一条推特，讲述了她对政府、大型科技公司和媒体的不满，但她没有具体提到她的选举挑战。
莱克和她的支持者抨击了该州最大的马里科帕县的选举官员，此前在选举日，233个投票地点中有70个受到印刷问题的影响，许多人要求举行新的选举。因为印刷问题时断时续，而且现场提供了备选投票选项，马里科帕县官员坚持认为没有人被剥夺了选举权。
2022年11月8日，亚利桑那州州长共和党候选人卡莉·莱克在亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔的共和党观察党向支持者发表讲话。
罗斯·富兰克林/美联社，文件
亚利桑那州的法律规定，对选举的质疑只能在投票被认证后提出，并且只能在认证后的五天内提出。在周一的投票认证后，周五似乎是莱克提交挑战的最后机会。
国务卿凯蒂·霍布斯，民主党当选州长，主持了亚利桑那州投票的官方认证，引起了一些共和党人如莱克的强烈抗议。霍布斯坚持认为她没有利益冲突，因为前国务卿已经证明了他们自己的选举胜利，因为她的办公室不计算选票。
Kari Lake files lawsuit riddled with falsehoods seeking to overturn Arizona election
After long refusing to commit to accepting the results of her race if she lost, Republican Kari Lake on Fridayfiled the legal challengeshe's been threatening in the aftermath of losing the Arizona governor's race.
A civilcomplaintwas filed Friday with the Maricopa County Superior Court naming Secretary of State and Democratic governor-elect Katie Hobbs, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, Elections Director Scott Jarrett and both the office of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and individual members.
There are multiple falsehoods and distorted assertions included in the lawsuit that echo the failed legal challenges brought by former PresidentDonald Trump’s team to overturn the 2020election.
The lawsuit seeks extraordinary, unprecedented and likely unlawful relief of fully overturning the state's election and certifying her as the winner instead of Hobbs.
Lake is being represented by Bryan Blehm who previously repped the failed Cyber Ninjas effort to audit the 2020 election in Arizona, and Kurt Olsen, who reportedly talked to Trump on the day of Jan. 6 and pushed conspiracy theories to justify overturning that election.
Trump 2024 campaign attorney Christina Bobb tweeted a photo of the lawsuit filed against Maricopa County election officials minutes after the closing of business on Friday.
Lake, a former longtime local news anchor in Phoenix, followed in the footsteps of her most popular endorser, Trump, in refusing to accept defeat and raising doubts about the integrity of the election ahead of time. She tweeted minutes after Bobb on Friday about her grievances with the government, big tech and the media, but she did not specifically mention her election challenge.
Lake and her supporters have blasted election officials in Maricopa County, the state's largest, after 70 out of 233 voting locations were impacted by printing problems on Election Day, with many demanding a new election be held. Because the printing issue was intermittent and alternate voting options were presented on-site, Maricopa County officials maintain that no one was disenfranchised.
Arizona law dictates that challenges to elections can only be filed once the vote is certified and only within a five-day window from that certification. After Monday's certification of the vote, Friday appeared to be Lake's last chance to submit a challenge.
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic governor-elect, presided over the official certification of Arizona's vote, to the outcry of some Republicans like Lake. Hobbs has maintained she carries no conflict of interest as former secretaries of state have certified their own election wins and because her office does not count the votes.
