The Supreme Court refused to consider a case filed by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem regarding the use of voting machines in Arizona elections on Monday.
BREAKING.
The Supreme Court has DISMISSED the Arizona Election Integrity Case without comment.
The plaintiffs @KariLake and Mark Finchem has brought forth expert testimony to indicate that there were serious voting machine vulnerabilities, including the “placing of the master… pic.twitter.com/Dv3bXcdZhp
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 22, 2024
This denial marks another setback for the GOP candidates, who have repeatedly had their lawsuit dismissed.
The Hill reported that Lake and Finchem petitioned the Supreme Court to reconsider a federal appellate judge’s dismissal of their case in October.
Their lawsuit aimed to prohibit the use of electronic voting machines in the state, raising concerns about their accuracy and reliability.
Lawyers representing Lake and Finchem asserted in a court filing to the Supreme Court that they had adequately presented arguments.
They contended that all “Arizona-certified optical scanners and ballot marking devices, as well as the software on which they rely, have been wrongly certified for use.”
They also alleged that Arizona’s voting machines had been “hacked” and “manipulated,” and pointed out apparent discrepancies in the vote count in Maricopa County following the 2020 election.
Lake and Finchem filed the lawsuit before the November 2022 midterms, during which Lake sought the governorship and Finchem pursued the secretary of state position. However, both were unsuccessful in their election bids.
Their lawsuit was initially dismissed by a federal judge in 2022, and this dismissal was upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the following year, per The Hill.
Breaking news reporter Kyle Becker shared some additional information about the case on X, writing, “… there were serious voting machine vulnerabilities, including the ‘placing of the master cryptographic keys on the election database in plain text and unprotected allows any actor with access to the voting system complete control over the election results.’”
“There was a ‘god key’ detected in the voting machine code,” he added, referring to the expert testimony Lake and Finchem brought forth in the case.
“In addition, due to the process of ‘reconciliation’ of the Arizona votes, it was ‘not possible to know the true outcome of voting at 43 voting centers’ because the voting center results were not recorded locally on memory cards,” Becker said.
“In April 2022, prior to the midterm elections, the two plaintiffs initiated legal proceedings against Arizona state and county election officials in federal court alleging that the voting machines lacked reliability and thus should not be authorized for use,” he continued.
Becker highlighted other concerns of the plaintiffs that were shared with the Supreme Court in his post. At the end of it, Becker wrote, “The Supreme Court of the United States did not believe that the issue of election integrity was worth the court’s time during another crucial presidential race.”
Lake would emphasize this point in a quoted post of her own.
“The Supreme Court of the United States did not believe that the issue of election integrity was worth the court’s time during another crucial presidential race.” https://t.co/kwdgdwfskp
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 22, 2024
Other users on X weighed in on the news earlier this week, expressing frustrations with electronic voting machines and the overall outcome of Lake and Finchem’s case.
Emerald Robinson, for example, said “The Supreme Court just denied Kari Lake & Mark Finchem’s lawsuit to ban electronic voting machines. It did so without comment.”
“Why?” she continued. “Because the Biden regime is going to cheat again in 7 months and the court system wants to allow the cheating. You know it’s true.”
The Supreme Court just denied Kari Lake & Mark Finchem’s lawsuit to ban electronic voting machines.
It did so without comment.
Why? Because the Biden regime is going to cheat again in 7 months and the court system wants to allow the cheating.
You know it’s true.
— Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) April 22, 2024
The Supreme Court’s decision effectively concludes Lake’s and Finchem’s lawsuit.
Kurt Olsen, one of the attorneys who attempted to persuade the Supreme Court to review the case, remarked: “We are obviously disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review the decisions of the Arizona district court and the Ninth Circuit, and order that our challenge to the 2022 election procedures be heard on the merits.”
“Although the Supreme Court grants review in less than 1 percent of cases presented on petition, we believe we presented a case,” Olsen added in his statement, which was reported on by The Hill.
“ … We will continue to raise these issues especially in light of the upcoming 2024 election,” he said.
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