On May 16, the Mohave County Superior Court will hear oral arguments on a motion for a new trial filed by former Arizona attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh and the Republican National Committee (RNC) over last year’s attorney general election. In their filing, Hamadeh and the RNC are arguing that not all legal votes have been counted in the former’s race against now-Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes and that once they are, the results will show Hamadeh as the legitimate winner.
“I am trying to restore not just election integrity, [but also the belief] that there’s a justice system that can remedy bad [elections],” Hamadeh told The Federalist.
Unlike most states that witnessed efficient election administration during the 2022 midterms, Arizona was marred by chaos and incompetence. In Maricopa County — which is home to almost 62 percent of Arizona’s 7.2 million people — poll workers at roughly 30 percent of the county’s voting centers reported that their respective vote tabulation machines were rejecting voters’ ballots, resulting in long wait times and widespread confusion among voters and election workers alike.
[READ: Maricopa County Made Arizona’s Elections Even More Of A Disaster Than People Realize]
After the election, Hamadeh and the RNC filed a lawsuit alleging numerous counts of improper activity by Arizona election officials, including “wrongful disqualification of provisional and early ballots,” “exclusion of provisional voters,” and “inaccurate ballot duplications.” The suit was ultimately struck down in December by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen, who ruled that Hamadeh’s team didn’t meet “the burden” of
