Kari Lake wants a judge to give her your personal information

Since 1991, when the Arizona Legislature passed a law allowing anyone in the state to cast a mail-in ballot, the vast majority of voting citizens have done so.

More than 80%.

How many of you, I wonder, would like some unknown members of failed governor candidate Kari Lake’s crew to have access to the green affidavit envelopes mailed to Maricopa County voters, from which they could procure your name, address and signature?

That’s what her lawyers will be asking for in court beginning on Thursday.

Lake’s team was fined for false claims

Lake’s legal eagles been to court many, many times and have had their groundless claims of election fraud rejected again and again and again.

In fact, Lake’s attorneys were fined by the Arizona Supreme Court for making “unequivocally false” claims made in court about 35,000 ballots added to last year’s election vote count.

Feel comfortable handing over your personal information and that of more than a million others to that gang?

Lake’s attorneys say the early voting envelopes are public record and they’re hoping to find enough fraudulent signatures to change the outcome of the election, which Gov. Katie Hobbs won by 17,000 votes.

Ain’t gonna happen.

No proof that anyone rigged the election

The process for verifying signatures has been upgraded several times, most recently by Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.

Signature reviewers get training. If they don’t trust a signature it goes to a manager. If the manager doesn’t like it the county tries to reach the voter, who has five days after the election to verify the signature.

Richer also implemented a program of randomly sampling 2% of approved signatures for additional review.

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There is, of course, only one name per ballot. Can you imagine a criminal enterprise large enough and sophisticated enough to manufacture or forge or alter 17,000 individual envelopes in a closed system with all of the existing precautions in place?

Me neither. Particularly since no proof has been presented that anything like that has occurred.

Lake’s ask could lead to voter fraud

But the MAGA congregation who attend Lake’s evangelical rants, and then send her money, believe it.

Lawyers for the county have pointed to a state law protecting privacy that, among other things, prohibits making public “the records containing a voter’s signature and a voter’s email address … .”

The county also argues that making your personal information public and available to anyone would put voters at risk for identity theft and, irony of ironies, potentially lead to — you guessed it! — voter fraud.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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