A federal judge has ordered the attorneys for failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and ex-Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem to reimburse Maricopa County for the $122,200 in taxpayers money that was wasted in their 2022 lawsuit, in which they called for the use of paper ballots over electronic voting machines in the midterm election.
Finding Lake and Finchem to have violated the law by "pursuing frivolous constitutional claims," in which they insisted that voting machines produced inaccurate results, U.S. District Court John J. Tuchi quashed their suit back in August and awarded sanctions to the county in December, per request. Now their bill has come due.
