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By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
Republican Abe Hamadeh won’t give up his bid to challenge his loss to Democrat Kris Mayes in the 2022 race for attorney general even if Arizonans vote to send him to Congress in November.
Erica Knight, who is handling publicity for the GOP contender, said Monday that his likely election in CD 8 against Democrat Gregory Whitten in a heavily Republican congressional district won’t end his legal claims now in front of the Arizona Supreme Court that he was improperly and illegally denied the opportunity to look for and present evidence when he first challenged his 280-vote loss. And when he finally did get some of those materials, Hamadeh said, Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen refused to grant him a new trial so he could present all that.
Now Hamadeh wants the state’s high court to overturn Jantzen’s actions.
Much of that is based on his claim the Mohave County judge illegally denied him to access “cast vote record.”
That essentially is a computerized representation of how voters voted, stripped of any individual identifying information. Hamadeh argued the information could be analyzed by an expert to find problems with vote tallies.
