Vaseline Woman Asks SCOTUS To Ban Voting Machines

Politico reports:

Kari Lake hasn’t given up the election conspiracy theories. The Arizona MAGA darling is asking the Supreme Court to revive a lawsuit that seeks to ban electronic voting machines. That lawsuit was filed during Lake’s failed 2022 gubernatorial bid.

Lake and Mark Finchem, a fellow election conspiracy theorist who lost the Arizona secretary of state race in the midterms, filed a lawsuit in 2022 that claimed that electronic voting machines were untrustworthy and argued they shouldn’t be used in Arizona.

The case went disastrously for Lake. It was dismissed in federal court for a lack of standing. Her attorneys were also sanctioned, with a judge writing at the time that he would “not condone litigants … furthering false narratives that baselessly undermine public trust at a time of increasing disinformation about, and distrust in, the democratic process.”

Arizona Law reports:



While not repeating the claims they made in the lower courts that Arizona does not use paper ballots, Lake/Finchem attorneys Kurt Olsen and Larry Joseph do claim to have recently discovered that Maricopa County gave Dominion employees control over the election systems and committed other violations in 2020.

Their argument is that the lower courts would not have dismissed the case (and assessed $122,000 in sanctions) but for these discoveries. Asked about today’s laundry list, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told Arizona’s Law “And, they’re not even new.”

After considering responses, the Supreme Court will conference and decide whether or not to accept review of the case. Olsen, Alan Dershowitz and Lake’s other attorneys have separately appealed the sanctions to the Ninth Circuit, with oral arguments expected to be in July.