PHOENIX (CN) — Onetime Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s baseless claims of election fraud took another hit Monday morning when a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the dismissal of a 2022 lawsuit aiming to ban electronic voting machines.
Despite the former Fox News anchor’s claims that electronic voting machines are susceptible to hacking, a three-judge panel found that Lake’s speculative claims were insufficient to establish injury.
“Plaintiffs’ candidacies failed at the polls, and their various attempts to overturn the election outcome in state court have to date been unavailing,” the panel wrote in its Monday order.
In the first of multiple suits the gubernatorial silver-medalist has filed over Arizona’s 2022 election, Lake and then-secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem sued the state and county officials to ban the use of electronic voting machines in the midterms.
The candidates claimed in their April 2022 complaint that electronic voter machines are susceptible to hacking by nongovernmental actors intending to influence election results. They said the machines have a history of failure both in Arizona and abroad, arguing that hand-counting paper ballots is the only reliable and trustworthy method.
They also contend Dominion Voting Systems, a voting software company used by Arizona, lied and ignored a state legislative subpoena inquiring about the data relating to the 2020 presidential election in Arizona. Dominion wasn’t named as a defendant.
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