The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider a request by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake to ban the use of electronic vote-counting machines in Arizona.
46 minutes agoFILE - Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 24, 2024. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, April 22, declined to consider a request by Lake to ban the use of electronic vote-counting machines in Arizona. two years ago, repeating unfounded allegations about the security of machines that count votes.
Lake is now the GOP front-runner for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, where she has at times tried to reach out to establishment Republicans turned off by her focus on making fraud claims about past elections. Finchem is running for state Senate. Lawyers for Lake and Finchem had argued that hand counts are the most efficient method for totaling election results. Election administrators testified that hand counting dozens of races on millions of ballots would require an extraordinary amount of time, space and manpower, and would be less accurate.
The Supreme Court's decision not to take the vote-counting case marks the end of the road for the effort to require a hand count of ballots. No justices dissented when the court denied their request.herself in a defamation lawsuit against her by a top Maricopa County election official. She had accused county Recorder Stephen Richer, a fellow Republican, of rigging the 2022 gubernatorial election against her.
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