Capt. Seth Keshel Review for Sen. Wendy Rogers of Memorandum Addressed to Sen Karen Fann REgarding Interim Report – Maricopa County

The following is a letter submitted to Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers by Captain Seth Keshel, responding to the memorandum sent by Attorney General Brnovich to Senate President Karen Fann.

“After reading the admission of the Attorney General, there is no way this election can remain certified.”

The letter discusses documented vulnerabilities in the election systems, signature verification, prosecution of election crimes, chain of custody, and voter rolls.

Senator Rogers,

I have reviewed General Brnovich’s memorandum dated April 6, 2022, and have formulated the conclusions contained within the body of this document. I have consulted with an elections expert from the grassroots organization Taking Back Texas (takingbacktexas.org) to validate or expand upon my points and will note any contributions from that team in italics.

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Paragraph 2 – General Brnovich acknowledges serious vulnerabilities in the elections system that must be addressed immediately.

Taking Back Texas: Such obvious deficiencies should not have taken 17 months to unveil, and the only logical conclusion, even from the beginning of the memorandum, is that voters cannot trust Arizona’s election results.

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Paragraph 1 – Brnovich mentions that the recorder’s office spent insufficient time verifying signatures and does so using basic mathematics.

Paragraph 2 – Brnovich highlights 100,000 to 200,000 ballots lacked chain of custody, a number 10 to 20 times greater than the margin of the presidential election statewide, and 1.2 to 2.4 time larger than the statewide U.S. Senate race. This alone invalidates the county and state elections and mandates decertification.

Taking Back Texas: Broken chain of custody invalidates all affected ballots and mandates their deduction from precinct vote tallies and cumulative county report. Storage with properly counted ballots makes a proper audit impossible and should require a re-vote. Runbeck should be held accountable for mishandling election records. No assurance is made that chain of custody will cease to be a discrepancy in future elections.

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Paragraph 2 – General Brnovich promises prosecutions to come and acknowledges some that are already underway. Brnovich acknowledges that it took four months for the county to respond to his first request for documents, raising the question as to whether the county is doctoring or manufacturing needed documentation.

Conclusion of Page 3 – It appears the county is attempting to run out the federal 22-month clock for remediation of the 2020 election.

Taking Back Texas: Arizona voters should expect to see county officials prosecuted, and not just individual citizens found in violation of election law. Brnovich does not reference 2019 Election Procedures Manual in his request.

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Paragraph 1 – I agree with implementation of a state law requiring immediate production of documentation upon request of Attorney General…. (Excerpt from State Senator Wendy Rogers Newsroom)