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Lake attorney claims county was trying to hide ballot verification process

PHOENIX — An attorney for Kari Lake charged Friday that Maricopa County was trying to hide something from the public in how it processed — and claims to have verified — the signatures on 1.3 million early ballots.

Kurt Olsen said video cameras were focused on about 50 workstations where people were doing ballot verification.

“That’s what the public saw,” Olsen told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson in his closing arguments Friday of the three-day trial that seeks to reverse the results of the 2022 election that Lake lost to Katie Hobbs by 17,117 votes.

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