PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider a request by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake to ban the use of electronic vote-counting machines in Arizona. Lake and former Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem filed suit two years ago when they were running unsuccessfully for other offices, repeating unfounded allegations about the security of machines that count votes. The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday not to take their vote-counting case marks the end of the road for the effort to require a hand count of ballots.
