Arizona Court Denies Republican in Election case
2022.12.27 07:11
Arizona Court Denies Republican in Election case
Budrigannews.com – Kari Lake, a Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, was unsuccessful in her attempt to overturn the results of her election defeat on Saturday.
On Saturday, Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson issued the order.
One of the most well-known Republican candidates in the midterm elections, Lake supported the erroneous claims that former Republican President Donald Trump would commit voter fraud in 2020.
Lake filed a lawsuit against Arizona election officials earlier this month to challenge the counting and certification of the November election and request to be declared the winner despite the absence of evidence of voter fraud.
Her lawsuit focused on top Maricopa County officials as well as Lake’s Democratic opponent, Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, who is currently the secretary of state for Arizona.
Lake, backed by Trump, lost the governor’s race to Hobbs in November. However, she refused to concede and continued to post unsubstantiated claims about election irregularities on her Twitter feed.
On Saturday, the order said that it did not find any “clear and convincing” evidence of misconduct that could have affected Hobbs’s election victory.
Lake tweeted on Saturday that she would pursue the decision.
The judgments against Abe Hamadeh and Mark Finchem, the unsuccessful Republican candidates for attorney general and secretary of state, who also challenged their losses, were consistent with the findings of the order.
Lake had requested that the state court either declare her the winner of the governor’s race or invalidate the results and mandate a new election for Maricopa County in her lawsuit. The suit asserted “a huge number of unlawful polling forms contaminated the political race” in Maricopa, the state’s most crowded province.
One of a number of Trump-aligned Republican candidates who lost battleground state races in the midterm elections was Lake, a former television news anchor.
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Lake pledged during her campaign to outlaw mail-in voting in the state, which conspiracy theorists falsely claimed was susceptible to fraud. This sowed doubt about the security of a voting method that hundreds of thousands of Americans use.
