PHOENIX – The state Court of Appeals has refused to reinstate the indictment against 11 fake electors and others who Attorney General Kris Mayes contends were part of a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential race.

In a brief order Monday, Presiding Judge Kent Cattani said he and two of his colleagues considered the request by Mayes to overturn a trial court ruling that grand jurors were not given all the information they needed before they handed up the indictments. But he said the trio decided not to step in.

The decision, unless overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court, would mean that Mayes would need to start all over again and present her case that there is sufficient evidence to charge all of them with fraud, conspiracy and forgery in connection with signing and submitting documen

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