For Star subscribers: Maricopa County wants a judge to toss out Republican Kari Lake's bid to immediately be given election records so she can challenge her loss in the governor's race.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Maricopa County wants a judge to toss out Kari Lake's bid to immediately be given election records so she can challenge her loss to Katie Hobbs in the governor's race.
People are also reading… If the judge agrees and dismisses the case, that could affect Lake's stated plans to file suit to overturn Arizona's election returns, which showed she lost to Democrat Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes. The law also says the records are deemed denied if they are not produced promptly, allowing the person requesting them to sue.
With no response to the records request by Nov. 23, Lake sued. And now she wants the case put on the fast track, even though under normal circumstances the county would not be required to even file its response to the lawsuit until Dec. 19. There also, he noted, are news reporters"who want records as promptly as possible, as fast as possible, immediately, in order to meet deadlines.''Even a court order wouldn't satisfy requestBeyond that, he said some of what Lake seeks already was posted by the county on its website designed to answer various questions about how the election was run.
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