After dismissing all seven of Lake’s initial claims, Maricopa County Judge Peter Thompson will reconsider her claim that signature verifiers violated state laws and rigged the gubernatorial election.
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The Arizona Supreme Court rejected six of Lake’s seven claims in a lawsuit she filed in December against Hobbs, the Arizona Secretary of State’s office, the county recorder, county director of elections and the county Board of Supervisors. The Supreme Court sent the signature verification claim back to the trial court, arguing that Maricopa County Judge Peter Thompson used the wrong legal standard to dismiss it the first time around.
The judge's ruling was overturned because he used the wrong legal standard. Still, nobody has proven beyond debate the mis-matched signatures were handled according to the legal intent of the law, even if by some deliberate twisting of the law the officials could have been said to have barely met some technical interpretation of some aspect of the law.