Abe Hamadeh wants another trial. Sweet goodness, will it ever end?

Time marches on but some politicians, it seems, never do.

And so we come to Abe Hamadeh, who on Tuesday filed yet another motion contesting his loss in the attorney general’s race. He’s asking for a new trial, citing a recount he didn’t win.

“It’s simple, if the judge allows us to inspect and count the ballots – we win,” he tweeted. “Kris Mayes will either resign or be removed from office. Count the votes accurately.”

Or, in the alternative, Mohave County Judge Lee F. Jantzen could advise Mr. Hamadeh to get a grip, find some grace and move on.

Hamadeh cries foul, alleges a cover-up

Hamadeh continues to claim there is evidence that “thousands of votes” were not counted. But during his trial last month – the one he lost – he didn’t produce any such evidence.

Now, he wants a do-over.

He’s claiming that because a recount in Pinal County revealed several hundred previously uncounted votes – votes that cut Kris Mayes’ margin of victory from 511 to 280 – there must then be an untold number of uncounted votes laying around the state that would give Hamadeh the win.

Put another way, because Pinal County made mistakes, the entire state must’ve bungled the election, denying Hamadeh his due.

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Naturally, he’s alleging a cover-up.

“Katie Hobbs in her role of Secretary of State had possession, custody, and control over the evidence of Pinal County’s huge discrepancy and she KNOWINGLY failed to disclose this to me and the court,” Hamadeh tweeted. “She intentionally misled the judge.”

He offers no evidence that Hobbs “intentionally misled the judge”. Or that that the Secretary of State’s Office violated the law in its handling of the recount – the one that confirmed that Mayes won the election.

But no matter.

Does he want illegal votes to count?

Hamadeh wants to now reopen the election and go on a statewide fishing trip, examining every ballot. And because Mayes already has taken office, he contends there should be no “artificial time restraints”.

Meanwhile, he announced the apparently ominous news that Maricopa County didn’t count 4,849 ballots.

“There are thousands of uncounted provisional ballots,” he told Just the News. “Thousands of voters were disenfranchised. Election Day in Maricopa County was a disaster. Election officials failed democracy.”

I don’t know if Hamadeh is just ignorant of the way elections work or if he’s suggesting that illegal votes should count. More likely, he’s just trying to keep hope – and fury – alive among the MAGA faithful.

Here in the real world, anyone can cast a provisional ballot. It is then set aside and counted only after the county verifies that the person casting the ballot was eligible to vote.

In this case, Maricopa County reports that 4,849 provisional ballots were not counted, most of them either because the person was not registered to vote or registered too late to vote in the Nov. 8 election.

Two months later, the voters have spoken and a judge has spoken and yet, still, here we are, with Abe Hamadeh unable to accept that he lost a close race, unwilling to let the state move on.

Apparently, there is no time constraint on sour grapes, either.

Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.

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