Kari Lake, the Republican defeated in the Arizona governor’s race, is formally challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs, asking a court to throw out certified election results from the state’s most populous county.

Lake, an ally of former United States President Donald Trump, in her lawsuit filed late on Friday appealed the court to either declare her the winner or rerun the governor’s election in that county. The lawsuit centres on long lines and other difficulties people experienced while voting on Election Day in Maricopa County.

One of the highest-profile Republican candidates in the midterm elections, Lake had narrowly lost to Hobbs in a bid to become the next governor of Arizona.

The challenge filed in Maricopa County Superior Court also alleges hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally cast, but there is no evidence that is true.

Lake has refused to acknowledge that she lost to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes. She had also embraced former President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.

The Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate has bombarded Maricopa County with complaints, largely related to a problem with printers at some vote centres that led to ballots being printed with markings that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators.

Lines backed up in some polling places, increasing Republican suspicions that some supporters were unable to cast a ballot, though there is no evidence it affected the outcome. County...

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