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Arizona election 2022

Hamadeh's claims of wrong pens used in election rests with judge


PHOENIX — The question of whether Abe Hamadeh gets to challenge the results of the race for attorney general that he lost by 511 votes could depend on what a judge thinks about claims that some people used the wrong kind of pen to mark their ballots.

At a hearing Monday, attorney Tim La Sota noted there were about 50,000 people who cast a ballot in the general election who did not vote for either his client or Democrat Kris Mayes. And La Sota acknowledged there may be reasons to believe that some of the nearly 2.6 million voters opted to skip that race.

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