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rizona’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County’s election officials over the handling of the midterms.
Lake’s campaign is demanding officials respond to its public records requests before the county certifies its vote canvass on Monday.
The lawsuit says: “Plaintiff desires that every lawful vote be properly counted and every voter who was eligible to vote be allowed to vote.
“Because Defendants were unable or unwilling to conduct a reconciliation of voter check-ins against ballots cast of each polling center on election night in accordance with Arizona law and have now unlawfully refused to produce public records in response to two public records requests regarding how they administered the election, Plaintiff cannot determine that every lawful vote will be properly counted.
“The records Plaintiff requested in response to the numerous issues with Defendants’administration of the election are consistent with a parallel demand by the Arizona Attorney General for answers to questions about the Defendants’ actions.
“Given instances of misprinted ballots, the commingling of counted and uncounted ballots, and long lines discouraging people from voting, as demonstrated in the attached declarations, these records are necessary for Plaintiff to determine the full extent of the problems identified and their impacts on electors,” the 19-page lawsuit says.
Republican Abe Hamadeh, who lost the race to be Arizona’s Attorney General by less than 1,000 votes, also sued.
Hamadeh said:
“The voters of Arizona demand answers and deserve transparency about the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the General Election by certain election officials.
“Pervasive errors by our election officials resulted in the disenfranchisement of countless Arizonans who had their voices silenced.
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