Failed Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem has been sanctioned by a judge who declared his lawsuit challenging November’s election results “groundless and not brought in good faith.”Finchem, a Donald Trump-backed election denier who has yet to concede his defeat, in December filed a lawsuit seeking a new election. He also called out Hobbs for not recusing herself from overseeing the election despite running for governor. The judge last week, ordered Finchem and McCauley to pay the legal fees of Hobbs and Finchem, but declined to impose additional penalties. “None of contestant Finchem’s allegations, even if true, would have changed the vote count enough to overcome the 120,000 votes he needed to affect the result of this election,” Julian wrote. During his campaign, Finchem said he wouldn’t have certified President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win in Arizona.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2023 22:01 UTC