A judge in Arizona rejected a bid by Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to throw out the results of the November election she lost, calling her claims of misconduct by election workers “speculation” that she had failed to prove.
During a two-day hearing that ended Thursday, Lake’s attorneys claimed that misconduct by election officials and technical problems with ballot printers in Maricopa County, the state’s largest, swayed the election in Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs’ favor. Hobbs beat Lake in the Nov. 8 election by 17,000 votes.
In a 10-page ruling Saturday, Arizona Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson acknowledged “the anger and frustration of voters who were subjected to inconvenience and confusion at voter centers as technical problems arose during the 2022 General Election.”
