Kari Lake is facing another setback after a Maricopa County judge denied her motion to dismiss County Recorder Stephen Richer's defamation suit against her.
Former GOP candidates Kari Lake and Mark Finchem will have to pay a six-figure sanction in the case in which they claimed that ballot tabulation machines were untrustworthy.
Republican Stephen Richer and Democrat Adrian Fontes were once political rivals. But now the Maricopa County recorder and secretary of state, respectfully, find common ground defending the integrity of Arizona’s elections and criticizing proposed laws that would undo decades of progress modernizing the election process, such as a bill to require ballots be counted by hand.