Kari Lake loses challenge of election loss in Arizona governor's race

An Arizona appeals court has rejected Republican Kari Lake's challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor's race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, denying her request to throw out election results in the state's most populous county and hold the election again.

In a ruling on Thursday, the Arizona Court of Appeals wrote Lake —who claimed problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct— presented no evidence that voters whose ballots were unreadable by tabulators at polling places were not able to vote. The court said that even a witness called by Lake to testify had confirmed that ballots that couldn't initially be read at some polling places were ultimately counted.

And while a pollster who testified on behalf of Lake claimed that problems at polling places had disenfranchised enough voters to change the outcome in Lake's favor, the court said his conclusions were baseless.