Tue Jan 31, 2023, 12:45 PM

Top Arizona election official requests probe of Kari Lake over potential campaign violation

Source: NBC News

Arizona’s top election official is requesting an investigation into Kari Lake, the Trump-backed GOP candidate who lost her campaign for governor in November, for a potential campaign violation over the disclosure of voter signatures.

In a letter dated Monday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes asks state Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate and “take appropriate enforcement action” against Lake for potential violations of state law, citing a tweet Lake posted last week that boosts false claims of election fraud in the governor’s race.

Fontes points to “a graphic containing images of sixteen voter signatures” in Lake’s tweet, which he argued violates state law that prohibits a voter’s signature from being “accessible or reproduced by any person other than the voter.” The Washington Post first reported the letter, which Mayes' office shared with NBC News without providing further comment. Lake did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.

Lake has repeatedly boosted unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 and 2022 elections. In a tweet posted Jan. 23, Lake claimed that 40,000 ballots didn’t match voter signatures in Arizona’s records. The tweet includes a graphic showing 16 voter signatures. “I think all the ‘Election Deniers’ out there deserve an apology,” Lake tweeted.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/top-arizona-election-official-requests-probe-kari-lake-potential-campa-rcna68339

Apparently the above is referencing this that was included in the OP article (will see how long that stays up) -

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🚨 BOMBSHELL DISCOVERY 🚨

Today’s Senate Testimony CONFIRMS nearly 40,000 ballots illegally counted (10% of the signatures reviewed).

I think all the “Election Deniers” out there deserve an apology.
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7 replies	Author	Time	Post
Top Arizona election official requests probe of Kari Lake over potential campaign violation (Original post)	BumRushDaShow	Jan 31	OP
KARI being a fraud aside, what's the State's answer to the signature issue?	oldsoftie	Jan 31	#1
If I remember correctly	Nac Mac Feegle	Jan 31	#3
OK, so even though its from '20, did they explain the claims about the sigs?	oldsoftie	Jan 31	#6
The new (D) AZ SOS	BumRushDaShow	Jan 31	#5
Kickin' With Gusto!	Faux pas	Jan 31	#2
But this is how republicans win elections. They know the people want them	republianmushroom	Jan 31	#4
Wouldn't Twitter also be guilty? n/t	Mr.Bill	Jan 31	#7

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 01:17 PM

oldsoftie (10,573 posts)

1. KARI being a fraud aside, what's the State's answer to the signature issue?

Or is the info faked? Which wouldnt surprise me at all

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Response to oldsoftie (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 01:31 PM

Nac Mac Feegle (941 posts)

3. If I remember correctly

When she presented this “evidence” to a court, she was told that the documents were from the 2020 election.

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Response to Nac Mac Feegle (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 04:31 PM

oldsoftie (10,573 posts)

6. OK, so even though its from '20, did they explain the claims about the sigs?

I mean I dont care a whit about Kari Lake but I DO want to know if ballots with bad signatures were accepted.We all should

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Response to oldsoftie (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 01:41 PM

BumRushDaShow (110,019 posts)

5. The new (D) AZ SOS

did a referral (PDF) of the issue to the new (D) AZ AG.

The OP article mentions a WaPo article where they had a copy of the referral and WaPo indicated this -

Top Arizona election official seeks campaign-violation probe of Kari Lake

By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
January 30, 2023 at 8:57 p.m. EST

(snip)

In his letter, Fontes pointed to state law involving public inspection of voter registration records. That law says records containing voter signatures “shall not be accessible or reproduced by any person other than the voter.”

Violation of that law, he wrote, is a felony.

A spokesperson for Mayes confirmed the office received the referral and declined to comment.

Just a few months ago, Arizona Republicans lost nearly every major statewide midterm race after campaigning for months on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. That was not always a winning strategy in Arizona or in many other states, but many Republican leaders and their supporters here are still clinging to election-fraud falsehoods, refusing to acknowledge that their candidates lost and resisting attempts to lessen the extreme divisions in the state.

(snip)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/30/arizona-kari-lake-campaign-violations/

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Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 01:26 PM

Faux pas (13,683 posts)