Attorneys for Maricopa County, Arizona, on Thursday asked a judge to toss GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit that alleged the Nov. 8 election was botched and she should be declared the victor or a new vote should be carried out.
In a motion filed (pdf) Thursday, lawyers for Arizona’s most populous county said Lake’s lawsuit is based on “pure speculation about what might have happened” during Election Day. Claims in Lake’s lawsuit are “insufficient for a court to reduce the vote totals in the official certification and alter the outcome of the election,” the motion further said.
