Arizona Recount Reveals Democrat Kris Mayes Beat Republican Abe Hamadeh
An Arizona state judge ruled Thursday that Democrat Kris Mayes defeated GOP candidate Abe Hamadeh in Arizona’s attorney general’s race after a mandatory recount was held.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason on Thursday revealed that Mayes defeated Hamadeh by about 280 votes out of about 2.5 million votes cast. The recount shows that Hamadeh cut into Mayes’s vote-total by about 200 votes; after Nov. 8 election data had shown that Mayes led by about 511 votes.
Hamadeh lawyer Tim La Sota declined to comment to reporters after the court hearing. Neither Mayes nor Hamadeh were in court during the hearing.
In response to the ruling, Hamadeh said his legal team would likely take action. Several weeks ago, Hamadeh sued Mayes and a number of state officials claiming there were procedural and tabulation errors that harmed his chances before a judge tossed it last week in Mohave County….