Kari Lake Won’t Fight Arizona Election Official’s Defamation Suit
Kari Lake is all but throwing in the towel against an Arizona election official who sued her for defamation, notifying a court on Tuesday she has no intention of defending her claims that he deliberately wrecked her gubernatorial campaign in 2022.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a 38-year-old Republican, filed his lawsuit last June. He said Lake had falsely accused him of “intentionally [printing] 19-inch images on 20-inch ballots,” resulting in the counting of 300,000 “illegal, invalid, phony or bogus” early ballots.
She also targeted him on social media, according to the complaint, assailing him as an “incompetent, corrupt fool” and a “reprehensible human being.”