Republicans in Arizona have filed a lawsuit again alleging incompetence from election officials influenced the midterm election results, after a previous legal challenge was dismissed.
Abraham Hamadeh, the Arizona Republican nominee for attorney general, joined with the Republican National Committee in a lawsuit filed against several election officials in Mohave County on Friday. The lawsuit comes after a previous lawsuit, filed on Nov. 22, was dismissed as a judge argued the voting results had not yet been certified.
The Republicans said they “are not, by this lawsuit, alleging any fraud, manipulation or other intentional wrongdoing that would impugn the outcomes of the November 8, 2022, general election.”
Arizona Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh at the Cochise County Sheriffs Office on November 04, 2022 in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
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The lawsuit, however, alleges “errors and inaccuracies” in areas like Maricopa County resulted in Hamadeh losing to Democrat Kris Mayes by 511 votes or a “margin of 0.02%.”
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“The cumulative effect of these mistakes is material to the race for Arizona Attorney General, where after the first canvass the candidates are separated by just 511 votes out of more than 2.5 million ballots cast—a margin of two one-hundredths of one percent (0.02%),” the lawsuit read.
Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for Governor, also filed a 70-page lawsuit on Friday, echoing many of the same complaints.
“The eyes of the country are on Arizona,” the lawsuit read. Lake also fell to her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, by just over 17,000 votes.
Hamadeh announced the lawsuit on Twitter Friday, saying “every legal vote deserves to be counted.”
“Today my campaign along with the Republican National Committee has filed an election contest lawsuit,” Hamadeh said. “At 511 votes out of 2.5 million our race is the closest statewide race in Arizona…