The U.S. Supreme Court has opted not to hear Kari Lake’s voting machine lawsuit, spelling further trouble for the former Arizona gubernatorial candidate’s lawsuit.
The lawsuit had been filed by Lake and former Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, who argued in their court filing that they had sufficiently argued that all Arizona-certified optical scanners and ballot marking devices “have been wrongly certified for use.” Prior to the Supreme Court declining to take up the case, the lawsuit was rejected by a federal judge in 2022, with that decision affirmed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in October 2023.
“We are obviously disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review the decisions of the Arizona district court and the Ninth Circuit, and order that our challenge to the 2022 election procedures be heard
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