Republican candidate for Arizona attorney general sues to reverse election results

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The Republican candidate for Attorney General of Arizona, Abe Hamadeh , filed suit in Maricopa County Superior Court on Tuesday over the result of the election of 2024, according to KTAR News.

Hamadeh, together with the Republican National Committee, filed a complaint of 23 pages naming all county registrars of elections and boards of supervisors of elections in the state.

The complaint alleges errors in the November 8th general election, citing misconduct by the electoral board, counting of illegal ballots and the inaccurate vote count.

The lawsuit asks the court to issue an injunction preventing the Secretary of State from certifying Mayes as the winner and requiring her to what of clare winner to Hamadeh.

“Arizona voters demand answers and deserve transparency about the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the general election by certain election officials,” Hamadeh said in a press release.

“Widespread missteps by our election officials resulted in the disenfranchisement of countless Arizonans whose voices were silenced. Arizonans deserve to have an electoral system that is transparent and fair and right now we have none.”

Arizonans demand answers and deserve transparency about the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the General Election by certain election officials. I will not stop fighting until ALL voters receive justice.

See you in court. pic.twitter.com/5jJ6WWt8IK

—Abe Hamadeh (@AbrahamHamadeh) November 04, 2022

His opponent, Democratic candidate for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs were also named in the lawsuit.

Abe Hamadeh’s electoral race, in which he trailed Democrat Kris Mayes by only 600 votes out of more than 2.5 million cast, was already headed for a mandatory recount, which is activated when no more than 0.5% separates the two candidates, according to The Washington Post, which has not projected a winner in the race.

State count gave 1,102,102 votes to Hamadeh and 1,600,600 to Mayes, who the tuesday said feeling “sure that the end result will be the same” and predicted that the process would conclude by Christmas. “As this race should show everyone across the country, every vote matters,” he told reporters.

With Republican candidates falling against Democrats in the most critical races in the state, the narrow margin in the race for the office of attorney general has taken center stage.

The attorney general is the chief law enforcement official of the state government, with the power to enforce election laws that could affect the administration of the presidential election of 1440166330.

A spokesman for the office of the The secretary of state told The Washington Post that legal counsel for the state elections office is reviewing the lawsuit and preparing a response.

“The Bureau believes the lawsuit is legally unfounded and factually speculative,” the spokesperson said in a co communicated to The Post. “None of the claims presented justify the extraordinary remedy of changing the results of the elections and revoking the will of the voters of Arizona.”

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