By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX -- Claims by failed Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake that the general election was rigged and that printer issues were caused by "intentional misconduct'' are little more than speculation and should be dismissed, the attorney for Katie Hobbs, her successful Democratic foe argued Thursday.
In new legal filings, Alexis Danneman told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson that Arizona law requires people like Lake who challenge election results to demonstrate either fraud or that official misconduct or illegal votes altered the outcome of the race.
"Lake cannot show either,'' Danneman said. "Instead of alleging actual facts and real numbers, Lake's contest rests of rank speculation and a cynical mistrust of Arizona's election officials.''
And she also told Thompson the fact that the Secretary of State's Office, run by Hobbs, had successfully requested that Twitter remove incorrect election information from its site nearly two years before the race did not, as Lake alleges, interfere with anyone's free speech rights.
Hobbs is not alone in asking the judge to toss out Lake's lawsuit.
In a separate filing, attorneys for Maricopa County lashed out at Lake's contention in her lawsuit that the failures some printers at vote centers to produce ballots that could be read by on-site tabulators "could not have occurred absent intentional misconduct.''
In essence, the county's lawyers told Thompson, Lake is alleging...
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