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KARI LAKE TRIAL PREVIEW:

Kari Lake's election contest trial is taking place today, tomorrow and Friday (May 17-19) starting at 12pm EST each day. You'll be able to watch the livestream directly from the Maricopa County Superior Court's website, and Robert Gouveia will be covering the full trial from start to finish (both linked below).

The main thing to understand going in is that the judge intentionally set an impossibly high bar for Kari Lake to meet. She must prove that NO signature verification procedures took place from all levels (1 through 3) of signature review. So if Maricopa County took ANY action in this area, whether it was a real and meaningful check or not, Kari is not entitled to relief. This creates robust grounds for appeal, but whether higher courts will overturn this is a very open question.

Robert Gouveia covered the filings last night, and the biggest standout to me was that Maricopa County's own log files show that well over 700,000 ballots were "reviewed" in 5 seconds or less. The Arizona Senate Elections Committee previously heard testimony that meaningful review from trained workers takes at least 30 to 45 seconds. But again, this doesn't meet the judge's impossible standard. Even Arizona's preeminent regime stenographer Garrett Archer is emphasizing how ridiculously high the evidentiary threshold is.

All in all, go into this trial viewing it as a win for the court of public opinion, because the chance for a win in the court of "law" is next to zero.

https://rumble.com/c/RobertGouveia

https://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/calendar/today/

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