I received this via e-mail:
Today’s ruling in Lake v. Hobbs is a win for Arizona voters and American democracy. Plaintiff Lake’s lawsuit was never about well-pled facts and evidence. Instead, it was the continuation of a made-for-TV tirade from a candidate who cannot or will not accept the fact that she lost.
Ms. Lake asked the Court to discard the valid votes of hundreds of thousands of Arizona voters and then order votes that were never cast to be counted, presumably for her.
As Judge Thompson said in his ruling, “A court setting such a margin aside, as far as the Court is able to determine, has never been done in the history of the United States.”
Coupled with the recent dismissals of Mark Finchem’s and Abe Hamadeh’s election challenges, and dozens of other rulings since 2020, Arizona courts have made it clear that frivolous political theater meant to undermine elections will not be tolerated.
As the Court said today in today’s ruling, “It bears mentioning that election workers themselves were attested to by both Plaintiff’s witnesses and the Defendants’ witnesses as being dedicated to performing their role with integrity. Not perfectly, as no system on this earth is perfect, but more than sufficient to comply with the law and conduct a valid election.”
More than 1.56 million Maricopa County voters cast a ballot in the November midterm, surpassing statewide turnout and nearly every midterm turnout for the last 50 years. All voters were provided the opportunity to vote, and all legal votes were counted.