A judge heard closing arguments from counsel for failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, as well as Maricopa County, the Secretary of State and the governor on the signature verification count remanded by the Arizona Supreme Court.
Attorneys for Lake today in Maricopa County Superior Court in Mesa argued there were about 274,000 signatures the county verified in less than three seconds, which they assert does not constitute signature verification as required by state statute and provides a “competent mathematical basis” as the governor’s race was decided by about 17,000 votes.
The defendants, though, cited Lake’s own signature verification “whistleblower” witnesses who testified to verifying and curing signatures and said they provided “pretty good evidence that Maricopa County did signature verification.”
