Arizona Election Official Fights Back Against Kari Lake's Defamation

Stephen Richer, a Republican election official in Arizona's Maricopa County, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake, a former TV newscaster and Republican candidate for governor who has spread false claims of election fraud. Richer alleges that Lake falsely accused him of sabotaging the election to prevent Republican candidates from winning. Lake has also been accused of falsely claiming that Richer inserted 300,000 "phony" early-voting ballots into the Maricopa County system. Richer's complaint claims that Lake continued making the false claims weeks after a court found that she provided "nothing more than 'speculation' and 'conjecture' to support her claims of intentional misconduct."