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Arizona election 2022

Hamadeh election case will head to trial

PHOENIX — Unsuccessful attorney general hopeful Abe Hamadeh will get a chance to try to have the election results set aside.

In a ruling Tuesday, Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen said the Republican contender is entitled to try to prove some people legally entitled to vote did not get to cast a ballot on Election Day because of issues in Maricopa County. That has to do with whether people who left one voting center because of printer and tabulator problems were illegally denied the right to vote when they arrived at a second one.

Jantzen also said Hamadeh can pursue allegations that some ballots that could not be read by tabulators were improperly duplicated by election officials who are required to prepare a new — and readable — ballot.

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