2022 Midterm Election Cycle

FILE - Kari Lake, former Republican candidate for Arizona governor, speaks during a lunch hosted by the Scott County Republican Women, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, in Bettendorf, Iowa. An Arizona appeals court on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, rejected 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. (Nikos Frazier/Quad City Times via AP, File) By JACQUES BILLEAUDAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — 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 agai...

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that the state’s early voting system is constitutional. In an 11-page ruling Tuesday, the three-judge panel rejected the Arizona Republican Party’s argument that mail-in voting violates the secrecy clause in the state Constitution. The clause requires that voters must have a way to conceal their choices on the ballot. More than 80% of Arizona voters use the early voting system that was created by lawmakers in 1991. It allowed any voter to vote by mail and removed the requirement that voters fill out and seal their ballots in the presence of an officer authorized to administer oaths, the appeals court noted. The appeals court’s ruling said Arizona’s early voting system provides secrecy “by requiring vo...