Kari Lake discusses plan to make Arizona elections honest again with ballot chasing operation

'I'm all for election day. But here in Arizona, we've gotten election month,' Lake said.

Published: May 24, 2023 6:50pm

Updated: May 24, 2023 7:18pm

Former Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says she plans to go forward with her election case, while also continuing to fight for fair elections in her home state. 

"We have to be able to adapt and make sure that people are voting and getting those ballots handed in," Lake said on the Wednesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "I'm all for election day. But here in Arizona, we've gotten election month and mail-in ballots."

Lake announced Tuesday the launch of a ballot chasing operation in Arizona after an Arizona judge on Monday dismissed Lake's challenge of her 2022 gubernatorial election loss against Democrat Katie Hobbs. 

"We are officially launching the largest, most extensive ballot chasing operation in our state's history and frankly, possibly in American history," Lake said during the press conference. "The courts just ruled that this corrupt election will stand. The courts just ruled that our elections can run lawlessly. The courts have ruled that anything goes. Well, we can play by those same rules."

Lake explained that many people in Arizona got mail-in ballots and never sent them back in. 

"We've decided to get our volunteers and work to make sure the half a million people in Arizona who were sent a mail-in ballot and never sent it back in -- we don't want that to happen again," she said. "So we're going to work to track those people down and make sure that they fill out their ballot and they get it mailed in."

She added that she still intends to take her election case to the Supreme Court.

"We're going to continue to work and appeal," Lake stated. "We plan to go to the U.S. Supreme Court." 

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