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The Supreme Court has declined to hear Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit challenging electronic ballot machines, marking the latest development in her claims of election fraud without evidence. Lake, a Republican politician who lost the 2022 gubernatorial race, filed the lawsuit in an attempt to ban the use of Dominion voting machines after her defeat alongside Mark Finchem, who lost his race for secretary of state in the same election.

The Supreme Court’s decision to reject Lake’s appeal leaves the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in place. Lake’s attorneys argued that Dominion machines had a “built-in security breach enabling malicious actors to take control of elections,” echoing claims made after the 2020 presidential election. However, the lawsuit was previously dismissed as “frivolous” and based on “hypothetical contingencies” by lower courts.

Lake, a Trump ally, has made voter fraud allegations a central part of her political platform, falsely claiming victory in the 2022 race for governor and insisting that Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Despite conceding that no Dominion voting machines were hacked in Arizona elections, Lake and Finchem argued that the machines posed a security threat to future elections.

Both Lake and Finchem are running for office again in 2024, with Lake seeking a Senate seat and Finchem running for a state senate seat in Arizona. The rejection of Lake’s lawsuit by the Supreme Court adds another chapter to the ongoing debate over election integrity and the use of electronic voting machines.