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The suit targets Lake's opponent, Governor-elect Katie Hobbs,
who is currently Arizona's secretary of state, along with top
officials in Maricopa County, according to the filing on Friday
with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Lake was one of the most high-profile Republican candidates in
the midterm elections to embrace former President Donald Trump's
false claims of voter fraud in 2020.
The suit on Friday asks for an order declaring that Lake is the
winner of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, or
alternatively throwing out the results and requiring the state's
Maricopa county to conduct a new election.
In November, Trump-backed Lake lost the governor's race to
Democrat Hobbs following which she refused to concede and
continued making unconfirmed claims about election improprieties
on her Twitter feed.
Lake, a former television news anchor, was one of a string of
Trump-aligned Republican candidates who lost battleground state
races in the midterm elections.
During her campaign, Lake vowed to ban the state's mail-in
voting, which conspiracy theorists falsely claimed was
vulnerable to fraud, fuelling distrust among voters about the
safety of a voting method used by hundreds of thousands of
Americans.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington and Sneha Bhowmik in
Bengaluru; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Stephen Coates)
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