daily briefing while staying informed on all things LGBTQ+ entertainment, life, and more!She filed her first lawsuit before her election even happened, in April 2022, when she tried to have electronic voting machines banned.
She lost and her lawyers ended up being sanctioned by the court for making “false, misleading, and unsupported” assertions, as well as making claims without “an adequate factual or legal basis grounded in a reasonable pre-filing inquiry.”Since losing her election by over 17,000 votes in November 2022, Lake has filed over half a dozen more lawsuits, each one claiming that the election was rigged, hijacked, stolen, miscounted, mishandled, blah, blah, blah.
She’s lost every case and appeal, with numerous judges ruling there was no evidence to support her claims. Nevertheless, she has persisted.“Right now, when you look at … polling and you talk to people on the streets … Arizonans are deeply concerned about our elections and the integrity of our elections,” Lake told KTAR News 92.3 FM this week, without actually citing any specific polls or naming any of the “people on the streets” she’s allegedly talked to.When pressed to say who stole the election from her, she acknowledged that, um, well, she doesn’t actually know..