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.
FILE - 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 . PHOENIX — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a request by Republican U.S.
U.S. District Judge John Tuchi in Phoenix ruled that Lake and Finchem lacked standing to sue because they failed to show any realistic likelihood of harm. He laterWhen the lawsuit was initially filed in 2022, Lake was a candidate for governor and Finchem was running for secretary of state. They made baseless election fraud claims a centerpiece of their campaigns. Both went on to lose to Democrats and challenged the outcomes in court.
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.Cooper writes about national politics from Arizona and beyond for The Associated Press.
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