Republican candidates Abe Hamadeh and Kari Lake join Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward (center) at a Nov. 7, 2022, campaign event for GOP candidates. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0
GOP candidates for Arizona’s top offices who claim the November election was stolen from them have spent months presenting shape-shifting arguments in court — and six months after races were called, they aren’t done.
A Maricopa County judge on Monday granted losing GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake a trial on a claim initially made in December that has changed over time as it made its way up to the Arizona Supreme Court and back down again. That trial begins Wednesday.
This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
Meanwhile, a Mohave County judge is considering granting losing GOP attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh a new trial based on a claim he presented in court Tuesday: that the statewide recount in December and other records obtained since then offered new evidence that he really won.
It’s unusual for these types of cases to be ongoing in May. Court challenges to election results have an expedited time frame set out in state law for a reason: So claims of problems can be resolved before the winners take their seats. Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes, both Democrats, took office in January.
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