All eyes are on the vote count from Arizona’s Maricopa County as the race for governor comes down to final tallies from mail-in ballots across the state.
Far-right candidate Kari Lake has urged her supported to check the status of their ballots to determine if any need to be “cured” or corrected, with the too-close-to-call race potentially coming down to outstanding ballots.
Her supporters reenacted the biblical Battle of Jericho outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Centre on 12 November as pending results continued to show the candidate trailing behind her Democratic rival Katie Hobbs.
Ms Hobbs is currently leading by roughly 26,000 votes with 93 per cent of votes reported.
While election officials continue to process, verify and count remaining ballots, Ms Lake has continued to amplify false claims about the electoral process and baselessly cast doubt its legitimacy.
“We can’t be the laughingstock of elections anymore here in Arizona. And, when I’m governor, I will not allow it. I just won’t,” she told Fox News on Sunday.
Meanwhile, an Arizona police lab confirmed that it found nothing in an envelope that Ms Lake’s campaign claimed was sent to their headquarters in early November containing a “suspicious white powder”.
