Legislative State: Arizona

Arizona senators issued a new subpoena to the state’s largest county on July 26 for materials related to the 2020 election. Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Arizona Senate Judiciary Chairman Warren Petersen have ordered Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors to turn over ballot envelopes or ballot envelope images, voter records, and routers or router images. … Continued

Republicans’ desire to increase voting integrity has resulted in new laws implemented around the country this year, The Hill reported Tuesday. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University said legislatures in 18 states have passed 30 bills that tighten voter access, with more than 400 bills with similar provisions having been introduced in 49 states in … Continued

Arizona Senate Republican leaders have issued a subpoena to Maricopa County officials looking for routers and other data as part of the ongoing audit of the 2020 election, the Arizona Republic is reporting. The newspaper said state Senate President Karen Fann and Senate Judiciary Chairman Warren Petersen demanded that the county board of supervisors make the information … Continued

Delivering a speech on election integrity in the battleground state of Arizona amid a forensic audit, former President Donald Trump told supporters Democrats cannot “win elections without cheating; there’s no way.” “The preliminary numbers are a total disaster, and we’re going to go over those numbers,” Trump said Saturday night at the Turning Point Action … Continued

The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate is not voting to hold Maricopa County officials in contempt for refusing to fully comply with election audit subpoenas because of a single GOP senator. Republicans lost a seat in the state Senate in the 2020 elections and hold a narrow 16-14 majority. That gives state Sen. Paul Boyer, a Republican, the power to stymie … Continued

Ben Cotton’s team is auditing the IT-related practices and policies in the 2020 Election in Maricopa County.  He shared some important items during his presentation last week that any good IT auditor would find. We pointed out previously that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors hired two election firms because they knew these firms would … Continued

Last week the Cyber Ninjas audit team performing the 2020 Election audit of the results in Maricopa County identified numerous issues already from their work.  One issue related to the claims surrounding ‘Sharpiegate’. Sharpiegate was the term used to identify concerns voters had in parts of Arizona where they were instructed to fill out their … Continued

The lion’s share of Republican voters in Arizona believe the ongoing audit of election results in Maricopa County will turn up enough evidence to show that former President Trump was the real winner in the state last year… (Excerpts from The Washington Times)

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the state Senate doesn’t have the ability to recall electors for the Nov. 3, 2020, election, after a fellow Republican lawmaker called for new elections. Fann told One America News Network (OANN), which has been covering the audit of Maricopa County, that the upper chamber has the ability to provide … Continued