Trump-endorsed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed a lawsuit in April along with Trump-endorsed State Representative Mark Finchem (R-Oro Valley), who is running for Arizona secretary of state, to block the use of electronic voting machines to count ballots in the 2022 election. The Maricopa County Supervisors responded last week with a motion requesting sanctions against the pair and their attorneys, which include former Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, asserting that the suit was “frivolous.”
Lake’s and Finchem’s attorney, Andrew Parker of Parker Daniels Kibort, retorted that the motion itself was “frivolous.” He told The Arizona Sun Times, “The motion brought be the County is frivolous and ignores the extensive allegations made in the Complaint supporting the legal claims. It also ignores the eye-opening evidence presented to the Court as part of the preliminary relief that has been sought. This appears to be a weak attempt to influence the Court while the Court has matters regarding this case pending before it. We believe it will not work. We will be responding in full to this improper attack within the next few days.”
Lake told The Sun Times, “We are drafting a response to the actions by Maricopa County. Our response will likely be filed this week. Our elections determine who we the people select to lead our counties, state and our country. We have a right to know that our votes are accurately counted without having to simply rely on these electronic voting machines with unfixable security failures.”
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