Grand Canyon Times

Kari Lake, former Arizona gubernatorial candidate, expressed her disappointment this week on Twitter regarding the sanctioning of her attorneys in the case concerning the last election. Lake firmly believes that voter fraud occurred due to malfunctioning machines on election day.

"Last year, I sued to prevent the use of machines in our elections," she said in the July 23 tweet. "An Obama judge threw the suit out. On Election Day, 59% of polling places in Maricopa County experienced machine failures. The same judge just sanctioned my attorneys explicitly stating sanctions were to deter future election integrity challenges. We won’t be deterred."

On election day in Maricopa County, nearly 20% of the voting locations, approximately one in four, encountered glitches; a November New York Times report said. The unforeseen malfunctions affected multiple ballot tabulator machines and had a considerable impact on a total of 17,000 ballots in the county. As a result, concerns about the fairness and accuracy of the election process surfaced, leading to widespread accusations of fraud. Those accusations were made not only by Lake, who was running for governor against Katie Hobbs, the current governor of Arizona, but also by many others.

Lake made an attempt to prove voting fraud in court, but her case was unsuccessful and resulted in the sanctioning of her lawyers with a fine of $2,000 for presenting false claims, a May report from The Guardian said. Lake's defeat to Hobbs by 17,000 votes led her to suspect that the malfunctioning machines were tampered with, thus influencing the outcome. During the legal proceedings, Lake's legal team argued against the imposition of sanctions, citing her strong belief that her electoral defeat was a direct consequence of election fraud.

"71% of Arizonans believe @MaricopaVote ran an incompetent and non-transparent 2022 election," Lake said in a Monday tweet. "Their disinformation campaign spread by the propagandist hacks in the fake news media is not working. They robbed the people in broad daylight & we demand justice."