JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY
Arizona Mirror
A federal appeals court has reaffirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to bar the use of voting machines in Arizona that was filed last year by Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, two Republicans who lost their bids for statewide office in 2022.
The ruling comes from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after the duo chose to appeal a federal judge’s earlier ruling that called the case “frivolous” and ordered the two to pay $122,000 in sanctions.
“None of Plaintiffs’ allegations supported a plausible inference that their individual votes in future elections will be adversely affected by the use of electronic tabulation, particularly given the robust safeguards in Arizona law, the use of paper ballots, and the post-tabulation retention of those ballots,” the court said in its opinion.
