The judge ruled late Monday that Republican Lake failed to prove her case for overturning her 2022 loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs for Arizona governor.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Late Monday, a judge tossed the last remaining claim by Republican Kari Lake in her bid to overturn the 2022 gubernatorial election and her 17,117-vote loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs.
People are also reading… Nor was the judge impressed by the testimony of Eric Speckin, billed by Lake's attorneys as an expert in signature analysis. Speckin said about 274,000 signatures were compared in less than three seconds, including about 70,000 compared in two seconds or less. He said the statutes simply require those doing verification to"make some determination as to whether the signature is consistent or inconsistent with the voter's record.''
"This, not the satisfaction of the court, the satisfaction of a challenger, or the satisfaction of any other reviewing authority is the determinative quality for whether signature verification occurred,'' the judge wrote."It would be a violation of the constitutional separation of powers for this court, after the recorder has made a comparison to insert itself into the process and reweigh whether a signature is consistent or inconsistent.
Lake's allies already argued Thompson was off base in saying she had to prove that no signature verification had been done.Thompson said she had the option of trying to cast doubt on a specific number of ballots, which he acknowledged would have been"a Herculean evidentiary endeavor in these circumstances.''
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