Arizona AG Reports ‘serious vulnerabilities’ in Maricopa Co. ‘raise questions’ About 2020 election
“We can report that there are problematic system-wide issues that relate to early ballot handling and verification,” the Arizona attorney general report reads.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich alleges “serious vulnerabilities that must be addressed and raise questions about the 2020 election in Arizona” in a report to the state Senate on the controversial management of the election in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county.
Brnovich, who is running in the GOP primary to take Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s seat in the U.S. Senate, found “problematic system-wide issues” with early ballots in his interim report, delivered Wednesday to President of the Arizona State Senate Karen Fann (R).
Tweeting out the report on Wednesday, Brnovich wrote, “We can report that there are problematic system-wide issues that relate to early ballot handling and verification.”
The problems cited by Brnovich include:
- election officials having on average less than five seconds to verify early voting ballot signatures;
- “multiple violations” in the handling and delivery to election offices of about 20% of ballots in drop boxes;
- almost $8 million in private grant money used by election officials in the vote count, donations which would now be illegal under a recently enacted law.
The attorney general reported that he found it difficult to get county officials to cooperate with his requests for information and revealed that his office’s Election Integrity Unit “has uncovered instances of election fraud by individuals who have been or will be prosecuted for various election crimes.”
Establishment media outlets are downplaying the findings of the report with headlines like the following:
- “Arizona AG report finds no evidence of mass fraud in Maricopa County 2020 election results” (NBC News);
- “Arizona attorney general finds ‘vulnerabilities,’ but says no mass fraud in 2020 election” (The Hill);
- “Attorney general’s report on election in Maricopa County questions procedures, doesn’t allege wrongdoing” (The Arizona Republic).
Brnovich, however, told “Just the News, Not Noise” TV show on Thursday that if people “read that interim report, they will find very troubling aspects of what happened during the 2020 election.”
“[F]undamentally, one of the greatest threats to election security and integrity is mail-in ballots and the handling of mail-in ballots,” Brnovich said. “And don’t just take my word for it. Literally, the worst president in [the] history of the United States before Joe Biden — Jimmy Carter —literally said the same thing, you know, 17 years ago. And it’s amazing how now the left and the Democrats don’t seem to care about election integrity.”
The attorney general was referring to a report by the 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform, on which former President Carter served. The commission warned that voting by mail “increases the risk of fraud.”
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