Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) on Monday called for an investigation and “appropriate enforcement action” against Kari Lake, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who rejected the lost election, over tweets that allegedly violated state law.
In a letter addressed to the state’s attorney general, Kris Mayes (D), Fontes argued that Lake’s post from January 23, in which he falsely claimed that nearly 40,000 ballots were “illegally counted,” showing an illustration with 16 voter signatures, violated a section of the law Arizona.
“The protection provided by this subsection prohibits the transmission of any information derived from the voter registration form or precinct registration to the internet, and under no circumstances, anyone other than the voter or a person authorized by law to reproduce the voter’s signature,” Fontes wrote in a letter mentioned. , quoted by MSNBC.
Fontes said the post could be a crime and asked Mayes to investigate further.
Lake has not commented on the matter.
In the tweet, Lake claimed that the graphic was evidence of an election violation that he had wrongly called.
“I think all the ‘Election Rejects’ out there deserve an apology,” he wrote.
Lake, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, went on to lose to Katie Hobbs in the November midterm elections. Hobbs won by more than 17,000 votes.
On Sunday, Lake hosted a “Save Arizona Rally,” where he continued to spread lies about the race.
During an event held in Scottsdale, Arizona, Trump spoke by phone to his supporters, claiming Lake would “win” in his bid to reverse the results.
Trump, who has announced his candidacy for 2024, has yet to concede defeat to current President Joe Biden in 2020 and continues to make unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.
Lake’s efforts to bring her case to court failed.
In December, a judge threw out a lawsuit in which he claimed problems with ballot printers at some polling stations on Election Day were deliberate, according to The Associated Press.