This seems pretty straightforward.
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Kari-Lake-lawsuit.pdf
Let's summarise. Background first.
2020
The US 2020 elections were a mess. No one believes the outcome. People from the 'establishment' want to uphold the outcome, but no one believes the outcome.
US elections have been utter crap for over twenty years.
Chris Martenson, himself a statistician of some merit, has been railing on about the 'e-voting machines' for years. No one trusts them. No one.
When we first heard, on a casual evening drive through the Research Triangle Park, that the US would be moving to voting machines from Diebold running Windows 98, we had to pull over to contain ourselves. That was beyond bizarre.
Arizona was a sore point in 2020. Scandal upon scandal. Voting machines couldn't be trusted. Paper ballots in good old precincts had to return.
2022
Things aren't better in 2022. They're still beyond bizarre. But now a few additional elements come into play.
The same 'key states' are still the crucial battleground. 2022 saw the election of a person already deceased, a person so mentally out of it that he began his public debate with 'good evening, good night' or the equivalent, and the fairytale win of a candidate openly despised in her own party, someone who was also in charge of her own election.
Kari Lake has been called a sensation. Not without cause. This is not a partisan opinion. Kari Lake is truly a sensation.
Kari Lake is not strictly political. Kari Lake is against corruption. And for the people. As governor, it's her job to serve the interests of the people of her state Arizona.
Kari Lake has no political IOUs to pay. She's seen what happened as a 'movement', and it is. She's attracted the media from around the world to her street corner pressers - media from the UK, France, Austria, Australia, and beyond. She's an inspiration.
Kari Lake is an inspiration because she is real and genuine. Nobody has to agree with all of Kari's personal opinions. That's mathematically impossible. But Kari speaks her mind and encourages others to do the same.
Arizona is in dire need of attention. A beautiful place with a climate surpassing paradise itself, Arizona shouldn't be corrupt. But Arizona has grown more corrupt than your garden variety third world banana republic.
As always, it's the establishment behind the corruption.
The establishment in Arizona is Democrats and McCain Republicans who've held power for way too long.
Kari Lake is endorsed by more people than her opponent ever met on her non-existent campaign trail.
https://karilake.com/endorsements
Here's a few.
Donald Trump of course, the Arizona Police Association, the Arizona Fraternal Order of Police, Paul Gosar, Wendy Rogers, the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, Donald Trump Jr, General Mike Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, Peter Navarro, Marsha Blackburn, Kash Patel, Dinesh D'Souza, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, Chuck Norris, Dean Cain...
And Tulsi Gabbard, who also campaigned for her.
Kari Lake's campaign - which she kept going nonstop for 525 (five hundred twenty-five) days - drew record crowds everywhere. Often they had to change the venue at the last moment to accommodate the crowds.
And meanwhile, Kathleen 'Katie' Hobbs, who was in charge of the horrendous 2020 elections, and now both a candidate for governor in the same state and also, as Secretary of State, in charge of her own election, did the old Brandon thing and mostly hid in her bunker.
Should Katie ever venture outdoors, and attempt to hold a rally, no matter how much preparation and promotion, she'd get only Brandon-sized turnouts. Perhaps a hundred, most likely a few dozen.
Nobody likes Katie Hobbs, but Katie Hobbs doesn't care. (She probably doesn't like them either.)
Katie Hobbs knew the election was hers. Katie Hobbs didn't need to campaign, any more than Brandon did.
Katie Hobbs had great lieutenants at her side. And this shows how much the 'Uniparty' concept applies, and not the traditional Republican-Democrat model.
Katie's greatest allies were the Arizona election supervisor Bill Gates and the Maricopa county recorder Stephen Richer. Both are registered Republicans, but they're McCain Republicans. They're part of the corrupt machine running the state.
Not only were Gates and Richer working directly under gubernatorial candidate Hobbs, they were also founders of a PAC devoted to raising funds to defeat Kari Lake.
Conflict of interest, anyone?
Now imagine yourself Rocky Balboa. And you're about to enter the ring with Mike Tyson in his prime. And, as the first round begins and Mike starts stalking you, someone yells out:
‘Oh look, Rocky! Right above your head!’
And, next thing you know, Adrian's standing at your side, telling you the fight didn't go well.
That's the GOP on election day.
Those Republicans really love traditions and institutions. They believe in their sacred right to vote, they don't trust the voting machines, and they are openly reminded that the best day to vote is election day itself.
Hobbs, Gates, and Richer know this. They also know that ginormous Maricopa County is key to it all, with 62% of the state's population.
Early voting begins on 12 October. With machines Kari's tried to get them to toss out. But things at least appear to work well. And they continue to work well. All the way through 7 November, the day before the official election day.
Messrs Gates and Richer hold a presser on 7 November. To formally inform the media and the public that they've conducted a test of all their voting machines and everything is working perfectly.
Yeah right. The following morning, very early on, the reports started coming in.
There's suddenly a massive state-wide (and especially in Maricopa) failure of those machines that Gates and Richer inspected the day before. Those machines aren't working. The issues become a sort of 'domino effect', almost as if it was planned.
The Uniparty people have already voted. Some of them voted more than once. The Kari people, who should be devouring the non-candidate Hobbs, get turned away, try to endure five-hour long lines. Kari and her family weren't born yesterday: they drove into a Uniparty area of town to vote, and of course things worked perfectly there.
The anti-Uniparty people set themselves up for the ultimate sucker punch. Hobbs, Gates, and Richer delivered that punch.
We said before and we'll keep saying it: a gubernatorial election result with Katie Hobbs getting more than 2% of the vote is guaranteed to be corrupt. Not only for the global appeal of Kari Lake, but also because Katie Hobbs represents everything the people of Arizona do not like, and are sick and tired of.
For over twenty years, the Arizona Clean Elections Commission has been an institution. They're the people who hold the debates. Katie Hobbs of course refuses to participate. Why should she? She has the squeaky voice of a preteen, talks like one too, and she has the election in the bag, and she knows it. Gates and Richer fixed it.
A quick look at social media shows the numbers. Katie Hobbs as Arizona Secretary of State has 37.8 K followers on Twitter. As supposed 'governor elect', she has 173.5 K followers. Kari Lake has 790.9 K followers.
On Instagram it's even worse. Katie Hobbs has 16.2 K followers, Kari Lake has 558 K followers.
Katie has no presence on GETTR.
And it's worse still if you, for example, delve into the comments on Katie's sporadic posts on Instagram: they’re almost all negative, highly condemnatory, not only for what she stands for, but also for the way she tries to steal an election.
If this bogus result is somehow upheld, it's going to be a difficult time for Arizona.
2024
People have been talking about Kari Lake and 2024 for months. Ever since Kari came on the scene. They see how well elections went in Florida, wish the same thing for decrepit Arizona run by Katie Hobbs, and see into the future when rockstar Kari Lake runs for VP with Donald Trump himself.
Unless we've read the situation wrong, unless anyone's missed Kari's repeated comments on the subject, Kari's heartfelt ambition is to clean out the Arizona corruption first. 'I'm going to be governor for eight years and I'm going to be your worst nightmare', Kari told the media.
Let's hope she is. For Kari represents more than a political figure in the Grand Canyon State. She's become a worldwide symbol for accountability in government.