"There is no statutory or regulatory requirement that a specific amount of time be applied to review any given signature at any level of review," he added. Thompson also noted, "The Court finds that looking at signatures that, by and large, have consistent characteristics will require only a cursory examination and thus take very little time." No reviewer is required by statute or the EPM to spend any specific length of time on any particular signature." "Not one second, not three seconds, and not six seconds: no standard appears in the plain text of the statute. "No such baseline appears in Section 16-550," Thompson wrote in the ruling, obtained by CBS affiliate KPHO-TV. Lake's attorneys had also argued that some 274,000 signatures were compared in under two seconds each, but Thompson ruled that the timing was irrelevant. Her lawyers argued that there was evidence that lower-level screeners who found inconsistencies in signatures ran them up the chain of command, where they were neglected by higher level verifiers. Lake's signature verification claim was the subject of a three-day trial. County officials had defended the signature verification efforts and said they had nothing to hide. Thompson dismissed the case, but the Arizona Supreme Court revived a claim that challenges how signature verification procedures were used on early ballots in Maricopa County, home to more than 60% of the state's voters.
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She filed suit after losing to Hobbs by about 17,000 votes, asking the courts to install her as governor or order a new election.
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