Maricopa County officials tweeted Friday, 30 minutes into the Arizona Senate hearing on the report of the Forensic Election Audit of the county’s 2020 election results, it “is legal under federal election law” that 23,344 mail-in ballots were voted from a prior address.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R-AZ) told Maricopa County officials on Thursday they must comply with an election audit subpoena from the Arizona State Senate or they will lose state funding.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office informed the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in a letter sent on Friday that it has launched an investigation into allegations the county has not “compl[ied] with valid and enforceable legislative subpoenas that originated from the AZ State Senate.”
Arizona Republican state legislators pushed back against Maricopa County officials on Tuesday, one day after the county’s Board of Supervisors defiantly refused to cooperate with subpoenas for additional information about the November 3, 2020 election conducted in the state’s most populous county.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors sent a defiant letter to the Arizona State Senate on Monday refusing to cooperate with the state legislative body’s request for additional information about the November 2020 general election in the state’s most populous county.
Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann and Arizona State Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett released a joint statement on Friday confirming that Bennett, a former Arizona Secretary of State, will remain in his role as liaison for the duration of the audit.
The Arizona state Senate subpoenaed Maricopa County officials for additional November 2020 election audit information on Monday.
Twitter has suspended several accounts focused on ballot audits in the states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the same day that that Congress begins partisan Democrat-led select committee hearings on the events of January 6th.
Florida State Representative and U.S. congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini (R) has demanded the Florida Secretary of State and local Supervisors of Elections “initiate a forensic audit of the 2020 election in Florida’s five largest counties to help insure voter confidence.”
A poll released by OH Insights on Monday shows that most Arizona Republicans believe the forensic election audit of Maricopa County being conducted by the Arizona State Senate will show that former President Donald Trump, not President Biden, won the state’s 2020 election.
