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Arizona lawyers: Kari Lake election loss lawsuit lacks merit

Kari Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Aug. 5, 2022.
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Kari Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Aug. 5, 2022.

Lawyers for Arizona election officials say Republican Kari Lake didn’t offer evidence to back her claims of widespread, intentional misconduct on Election Day in challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the governor’s race.

A lawyer for Hobbs, who won by just over 17,000 votes, told a judge Thursday that Lake never established her claim that printer problems at Maricopa County polling places were intentional acts that would have changed the race’s outcome had they not occurred.

Lake’s attorneys say officials tried to downplay the effects of the printer problems in Maricopa County. Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson didn’t say when he would issue a ruling.