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Kari Lake’s Chances of Being Indicted Amid Criminal Referral in Arizona

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Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake could be facing possible charges after the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office accused her of illegally sharing voters’ signatures on her Twitter account as evidence the 2022 election was somehow rigged against her.

On Monday, Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes sent a letter to Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes referring Lake for investigation for what he said was a violation of state law by sharing several voters’ signatures on her Twitter page, citing a statute under Arizona law that states signature files “shall not be accessible or reproduced by any person other than the voter.”

“The protections afforded by this subsection prohibit posting any information derived from voter registration forms or precinct registers to the internet, and under no circumstance may a person other than the voter or [a] statutorily authorized person reproduce a voter’s signature,” read the referral.

On its face, that’s exactly what Lake—who has so far failed to produce sufficient evidence to overturn the election—appeared to do. But whether the state actually has a case is a different question.

The signature files Lake shared on her Twitter account Monday had, in reality, already been made public one week earlier during testimony by Shelby Busch, chair of the conservative We the People AZ Alliance, to the Senate Elections Committee on a number of Republican-led bills seeking reforms to several facets of Arizona election law: a fact her campaign account made note of Monday night.

On Monday, Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes sent a letter to Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes (inset) referring Kari Lake (main) for investigation for what he said was a violation of state law by sharing several voters’ signatures on her Twitter page.
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“Adrian Fontes wants Kris Mayes to investigate & potentially imprison @KariLake for the ‘crime’ of … sharing signature verification evidence that was presented before the @AZSenateGOP & is currently in her lawsuit,” they tweeted.

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