Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Without comment Monday morning, the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal filed by Kari Lake and Mark Finchem over the use of electronic tabulation machines.
The candidates filed the suit in 2022 trying to get a federal judge to block the use of the machines in Maricopa and Pima counties. They also wanted hand counts of the ballots in those counties.
At the time, Lake was running for Governor and Finchem was running for Secretary of State. They both lost those races.
The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case means that the case is now finished.
Lake is now running for U.S. Senate in Arizona.
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