2 min ago
Arizona Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling dismissing electoral fraud suit
From CNN's Bob Ortega
The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling dismissing a complaint filed by
Kelli Ward, the state's Republican Party chair and a Trump presidential elector.
The court ruled that "the challenge fails to present any evidence of 'misconduct,' 'illegal votes' or that the Biden Electors 'did not in fact receive the highest number of votes for office,' let alone establish any degree of fraud or a sufficient error rate that would undermine the certainty of the election results."
Ward had sought to either void Joe Biden's win in Arizona or force another recount.
In recent weeks, Ward has relentlessly promoted a wide range of baseless election conspiracy theories on social media and in public statements. Her suit, filed against the 11 Biden electors, alleged that errors in Maricopa County, the state's most populous and home to Phoenix, had cost Trump enough votes to potentially alter the result. The suit focused on alleged issues with verifying voters' signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes and claims that votes had been flipped in the duplication of ballots that couldn't be read by tabulation machines.