The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem regarding the use of voting machines in Arizona elections. The lawsuit, which has been rejected multiple times, sought to block the use of electronic voting machines in the state due to concerns about their accuracy and reliability.
Lake, a Senate candidate, and Finchem, a state Senate candidate, argued that all Arizona-certified optical scanners and ballot marking devices, as well as their software, had been wrongly certified for use. They also claimed that Arizona’s voting machines had been hacked and manipulated, and pointed to alleged discrepancies in Maricopa County’s vote count after the 2020 election.
However, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of their lawsuit last year, stating that the plaintiffs’ allegations did not support a plausible inference that their individual votes in future elections would be adversely affected by the use of electronic tabulation.
The Supreme Court’s decision not to revisit the federal court’s decision effectively ends Lake’s and Finchem’s lawsuit. This comes as Republicans, including Lake, Finchem, and former President Trump, continue to cast doubt on the 2020 and 2022 election results in several states, despite these results being consistently upheld.
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