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Kari Lake: Arizona judge rejects Republican’s election challenge and confirms Hobbs’ victory



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Arizona Judge on Saturday dismissed GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit seeking to undo her defeat and concluded there was no clear or hard evidence of transgression and confirmation of victory of Elected Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs.

Lake, who lost to Hobbs by about 17,000 votes in November, sued in an attempt to cancel the election. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson allowed two-day trial on some of Lake’s claims, which ended late Thursday night.

Court ruling marks major defeat for Lake, who built her candidacy on her support for former Lies by President Donald Trump about massive election fraud in presidential elections in 2020. She has since falsely claimed that won last election month.

Saturday decision also in latest blow for Election deniers across the country and listen back to the long stream of legal damages suffered by Trump in 2020 as he aspired challenge his defeat in the elections.

AT tweet after decisionLake, who sat in courtroom during the trial, but did not testify, said she would appeal decision “for for the sake of of restoration of faith and honesty in our elections.”

Thompson had previously dismissed eight other charges. in Lake’s pre-trial lawsuit holding that they did not constitute proper grounds for campaign under Arizona law, even if true. But he let Lake try prove in court, two remaining counts involving printers and ballot chains of guardianship in Maricopa County.

County that Phoenix covers area and contains most of Arizona population was a hotbed of unfounded accusations of disenfranchisement in midterms and 2020 elections.

Technical Experts who testified in support of Lake provided an analysis that “doesn’t even come close to of accuracy” necessary to conclude that the elections results were ruined,” Thompson said. in his ruling.

After the election, Lake falsely claimed that there had been an accident. with some printers in Maricopa County was part of of deliberate attempt to falsify vote against her. But the judge’s ruling noted that “Lake’s own witness testified before this court that… result of unexpected mechanical failure”.

According to Thompson’s ruling, Lake team had show that someone intentionally caused county bulletin -on-demand printers fail – and how result of that, quite “identifiable” votes were lost to change the result of elections.

“Each witness before the trial denied any personal knowledge of such an offense. The court cannot accept speculation or conjecture in place of clear and compelling evidence,” Thompson wrote.

Maricopa County Council of Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Bill Gates, Republican who helps to observe the elections, called the resolution win for The Arizona Voters and American Democracy.”

“Courts of Arizona made This clear that frivolous political theater designed to undermine elections is unacceptable,” Gates said. in announcement on Saturday.

During the two-day trial, the legal team widely criticized Maricopa County leadership of elections and argued that the long queues turned would-be Republican voters away on Election Day.

Tom Liddy, lawyer for Maricopa County, Blame Lake campaign and Republican Party of Arizona for questioning on reality of early and postin votes which left GOP voters bear the brunt of minor problems on Election Day.

“This is a political mistake,” Liddy, a Republican, said. “You reap what you sow.”

Collaboration with Maricopa County Elections director Scott Jarrett detailed causes of seal problems in some constituencies on Election day, which resulted in in on- voting tabs on the site cannot be read by some ballots.

Jarrett said in some printers, the toner was not dark enough – problem Which caused in voters whose ballots could not be read place them ballots in door 3, secure box used for ballots It was need for subsequent counting in the central location. Jarrett said around 17000 ballots ended up in Door 3 boxes all over the county.

He also said that at three of “shrink to fit” settings were incorrectly selected on 223 county sites on bulletin printers by technicians who tried solve those toner problems. This led in around 1300 ballots printed a little too much small for on-site tabs for processing.

Those ballots were later duplicated by hand and then counted, he said.

He said that he had “no reason believe” anyone of in problems were result of deliberate misconduct. Everybody of those votes, he said, were eventually counted after being moved to bipartisan duplication board.

lake team had also argued in court that employees of Runbeck, a Maricopa County ballot processing contractor, incorrectly inserted their own ballots and those of family participants in the party for counting on site, not return those ballots through the relevant channels.

In response, Rey Valenzuela, Maricopa County Representative director of elections in blame of early voting, said the county never authorized Runbeck employees to deliver ballots directly to Runbeck’s website and what he didn’t know of the contractor’s employees have ever done this.

Lake legal team until Monday to reply. Hobbs takes over as governor on January 2.

This story was updated with additional details.

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