by Natalia Mittelstadt, Just The News:

Two witnesses in Kari Lake’s Arizona election challenge trial testified Wednesday that Maricopa County signature reviewers worked less in the general election than in the primary, despite more ballots having to be reviewed.

Wednesday was the first day of a three-day trial for Lake’s election challenge.

She fell about 17,000 votes short in the official count for the 2022 gubernatorial election against then-Secretary of State Hobbs and is suing Hobbs, who’s the current Democratic governor, current Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) and Maricopa election officials, requesting the results be invalidated or that she be declared the winner.