Losing gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake is entitled to try to prove in court that someone in Maricopa County illegally tinkered with ballot printers resulting in lost votes for her, a judge ruled late Monday.
In a 13-page decision, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson said he was not deciding on the merits of Lake's claim of intentional misconduct, one of the legal grounds in Arizona to contest an election. That, he said, will come after a two-day trial set to start Wednesday.
The root of that complaint is that printers at many of the county's 223 voting centers malfunctioned, producing ballots that could not be scanned by the on-site tabulators. That, in turn, caused long lines as some people refused the alternate option of dropping their ballots into a sealed box to be counted later.
