A legal complaint has been filed by the Republican attorney general candidate to prevent the election from being certified.
The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of the state of Arizona.
Kris Mayes, the current leader in the attorney general race, is one of the contestees.
All of Arizona's votes have been counted. The race is headed for an automatic recount because the vote differential between the candidates is less than.05. After the election results are certified, a recount will take place.
The attorney general's race is currently being certified. It asks for an injunction that would prevent the Secretary of State from issuing a certificate of election to the person who won the election.
The court was asked to order the secretary of state to certify the election results for him.
An injunction requires the Secretary of State to issue a certificate of election for Contestant to the office of Arizona Attorney General.
The voters of Arizona demand answers and deserve transparency about the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the general election by certain election officials. Many Arizonans had their voices silenced due to incorrect election officials. Right now we don't have an election system that is transparent and fair.
The only way to restore confidence in the election system is through today's challenge.
The Mayes campaign wouldn't say if they'd seen the lawsuit. The officials of the county didn't say anything.
According to the complaint, there were errors made during the election so that the result doesn't reflect the intent of Arizona voters. The allegations include inaccurate vote counts, the will of the voter not being reflected because of faulty or impaired ballots, and the inclusion of early ballots in the final vote tally.
Within days of a letter from the Arizona Attorney General's Office asking for a formal response to issues that arose on Election Day, a complaint was filed.
Problems in the county are the focus of much of the complaint. Poll workers didn't know how to check out voters. Long lines at some polling places were caused by the tabulator machines not being able to read some of the ballots because the ink used was too light.
The complaint alleges that Bill Gates encouraged voters to go elsewhere because of the confusion over their check-in status, which made it difficult for voters to cast their votes.
On Election Day, county officials acknowledged the confusion caused by printer settings and low ink levels that kept tabulators from accepting ballots for counting in 30% of the vote centers. There are a number of safeguards in place to allow for the counting of ballots by voters who went to a second polling place.
At least 146 voters had their ballots thrown out because they hadn't been checked out of their first location, according to a complaint. At least 273 voters who went to a second location to cast their ballot were not allowed to do so because they were still checked in at the first voting center. A material number of voters were unable to cast a ballot at another polling place because they were still checked in at their first election center, according to the complaint.
The original article was on Arizona Republic.
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