Dismissed: Lake and Finchem voting machine lawsuit fails again

After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a voting machine lawsuit in April, election denial duo Kari Lake and Mark Finchem’s lawsuit has lost yet again in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A case brought by Lake and Finchem in 2022 challenged Arizona’s use of electronic voting machines and was subsequently rejected by both the trial court, the 9th Circuit Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. After the Supreme Court concluded their case, Lake and Finchem filed a Hail Mary and asked the 9th Circuit to refrain from issuing a final judgment in the far-reaching challenge. The county and state Republican parties also joined Lake and Finchem’s appeal, but the 9th Circuit declined to do so.

After the 9th Circuit issued a two-sentence order, this case was again dismissed.

Original post from April 22

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a lawsuit brought by election denier and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake (R) involving extreme voting machines.

This marks the end of the road for a conspiracy lawsuit brought by Mark Finchem and Lake, two election deniers running for office in Arizona, that was originally dismissed in August 2022 due to its “vague,” “speculative” and ultimately high amounts of money. “alleged allegations.” The duo was later booked for making false and misleading statements before the court.

The Supreme Court’s rejection of the case came after Republican parties in Arizona, Delaware and Georgia filed a “friend of the court” brief asking the Court to hear Lake, arguing that courts had set too high a standard for election-related challenges to be brought.

In their lawsuit, Lake and Finchem alleged that Arizona’s use of electronic voting machines violated their right to vote under the U.S. Constitution and Arizona law because the machines are “inherently susceptible” to cyberattacks and voter fraud and cannot be rely on them to provide unbiased and unbiased results. accurate vote counts.

Both the district court and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the lawsuit, finding it lacked standing. From there, with the help of Mike Lindell of MAGA and MyPillow fame, the election deniers filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lake and Finchem have asked the Supreme Court to hear both a challenge to Arizona’s use of electronic voting tabulators and a potential “stall relief order” in the 2022 midterms. Both Finchem and Lake have challenged the results of this election in their races .

Their arguments in the voting machine lawsuit were based on baseless allegations of fraud in the 2020 election and focused on the use of Dominion voting machines, a major point of interest for “Big Lie” supporters after the 2020 election. Lake and Finchem argued that because electronic voting machines “created unwarranted new risks of hacking, election manipulation, and electronic voting fraud,” each vote should instead be counted by hand, which would take about 93 days, according to Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.

Last year, Fox News agreed to pay nearly $800 million for false claims about the 2020 election and Dominion voting systems. Dominion also filed a lawsuit against Lindell for more than $1 billion in connection with his claims.

The decision is a major victory for voters both in Arizona and across the country, as Lake’s lawsuit based on the “Big Lie” has once again been dismissed.

Read the command here.

More about the case here.