A January 2023 analysis by a trio of election data experts, collectively known as the Audit Guys, concluded that in Maricopa County, over 33,000 voters who voted Republican in down-ballot races chose to vote for Hobbs instead of Lake, while nearly 6,000 Republican leaning voters did not vote in the gubernatorial election or wrote in another candidate instead of Lake; together, these voters could have flipped the result of the election had they voted for Lake.
In January 2023, an analysis by three election experts, known as the Audit Guys, discovered that in Maricopa County, approximately 33,000 Republican voters who supported down-ballot candidates opted to vote for Hobbs over Lake, while around 6,000 Republican-leaning voters did not participate in the gubernatorial election or cast a write-in ballot for Lake; these voters could have potentially changed the outcome of the election if they had voted for Lake.