PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican candidate who lost last year’s Arizona Attorney General election appeared in court on Tuesday, demanding a retrial to overturn the results of November’s campaign.

Attorney for Candidate Abraham Hamade Democrat Chris Mays appears at an afternoon Superior Court hearing in Mojave County in northwest Arizona to claim new evidence that some votes were not counted in the election he won. I was planning to.was sworn in earlier this year.

Hamade is calling for Judge Lee Jansen to be allowed to thoroughly inspect all ballots in an election.

The lawsuit is one of the cases still remaining in Arizona courts six months after an election in which the Democrats won the top race in the former Republican stronghold.

Former TV anchor Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for Arizona gubernatorial race in 2022, also suffered a loss against Democrat Katie Hobbs, who took office in January, even though the court dismissed most of the lawsuits. continues to argue..

Lake made the election of former President Donald Trump a centerpiece of his campaign. Most of the other election naysayers across the country gave in after losing the November campaign, but Mr. Lake persisted.

Republicans had nominated pro-Trump candidates focused on supporting Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election. In addition to Hobbes and Mays, Democratic Senator Mark Kelly won re-election and Democrat Adrian Fontes won the election for secretary of state.

Earlier this month, the Arizona Supreme Court sanctioned Lake’s attorneys for $2,000 in an unsuccessful challenge to Hobbes’ victory.

The state Supreme Court said Mr. Lake’s attorneys made “false statements of fact” alleging that more than 35,000 votes were improperly added to the total votes cast.