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Pima County reported incorrect numbers of uncounted ballots on Friday, due to what county officials say was a clerical error. The error didn’t become public until an attorney for Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake complained. The estimated number of uncounted ballots reported by the county went up in a two-hour period Friday, Lake’s attorney Jennifer Wright pointed out in a letter to county officials. “Kari Lake for Arizona demands that Pima County provide an immediate explanation of the discrepancies in the numbers combined with complete and accurate accounting of how the number of uncounted ballots increased between the 1:23 p.m....

PHOENIX — Arizonans who lack proof of citizenship can again sign up to vote in this year’s presidential and congressional races. The action comes after two of three judges on a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals late Thursday overturned a ruling to the contrary by a different three-judge panel whose duty it is to rule on pending motions. The majority of this panel — the one actually assigned to hear the case — concluded the other judges should never have made such a radical change in voting registration rules so soon before the election, saying it would...

Kari Lake is now going to have to prove the charges she leveled against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer are true if she wants to avoid being found guilty of defaming him. In an extensive ruling Wednesday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jay Adleman said it is clear that the claims made by the failed Republican candidate for governor that Richer had sabotaged the election were not, as her lawyers claim, “mere rhetorical hyperbole.’’

PHOENIX — Maricopa County’s supervisors are asking a judge to impose financial sanctions on the state’s two top election deniers, Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem.Lake, who is running for governor, and Finchem, the GOP nominee for secretary of state, filed a lawsuit in April seeking to ban the use of ballot counting machines.It is full of claims that are demonstrably false, contends an attorney for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Emily Crager.Moreover, she told U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi that “any reasonable investigation would have revealed’’ as much. That means Lake and Finchem violated court rules barring...