GOP Candidate's Election Challenge in Arizona AG Race Receives New Life Following Ballot Review
An Arizona judge has ordered oral arguments for next month in Republican Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge of Democrat Kris Mayes’ win in the state’s attorney general race.
Mayes defeated Hamadeh by just 280 votes of the more than 2.5 million cast in November’s midterm election, the Arizona Capitol Times reported.
Following the certification of Mayes as the winner in December by 511 votes, a mandatory hand recount in Pinal County, southeast of Phoenix, determined 507 ballots had not been counted due to vote tabulator machine and human error.
Prior to this discovery, Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen had ruled against Hamadeh, concluding the evidence he presented did not “overcome the presumption that the election was done correctly,” The Hill reported.
After the revelation of uncounted ballots in Pinal County, Hamadeh’s legal team and the Republican National Committee submitted a motion for retrial.
“Contestants simply ask that we be given the opportunity to apply the Pinal County process across the board to conduct a physical inspection and hand count of ballots that — if the Pinal County issue repeats itself anywhere else in the State — could be outcome determinative in this election,” the motion read.
Jantzen set a May 16 hearing date for oral arguments regarding a new trial.
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