The Maricopa County recorder, along side the county's Board of Supervisors, in a scathing letter despatched Wednesday accused Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich of gambling politics, making assumptions and ignoring proof in his period in-between record on a crook research into the 2020 election.
When election integrity is challenged, we've the collective obligation to research and record our conclusions very well and honestly," the supervisors wrote of their letter to Brnovich.
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We have. You have now no longer. The 2020 election became honest and the consequences indisputable. Rather than being honest approximately what your workplace has discovered approximately the election, you've got got unnoticed pertinent information, misrepresented facts, and stated distorted facts to seed doubt approximately the behavior of elections in Maricopa County."
We already stay in very divisive instances and as opposed to casting dispersions or casting stones, we have to be running collectively to deal with problems in order that everyone, regardless of who they are, can believe withinside the electoral process," Brnovich stated.
Brnovich introduced that as opposed to attacking him, the Maricopa County supervisors have to paintings on making sure that problems that he delivered up in his record do not take place once more in upcoming elections, which includes 200,000 ballots now no longer being transported withinside the right chain of custody.
In his period in-between record, Brnovich stated that the quantity of ballots rejected due to lacking signatures, or that had signatures rejected became suspiciously low, in particular whilst in comparison with beyond elections in Maricopa County. Brnovich stated there will be legitimate motives, however indicated that the county became much less diligent in 2020 with signature opinions than in years beyond.
The county retorted that there had been many motives for fewer ballots being rejected in 2020. In 2020 the county made an attempt to seize unsigned ballot envelopes earlier than they had been deposited, the supervisors stated. It additionally employed extra than forty transient people in 2020 to remedy ballots — essentially to touch folks that voted with the aid of using mail to make sure their ballot envelope had a legitimate signature that matched the country's signature on record for that voter.
"That you probably did now no longer ask your investigators approximately those tendencies (or in case you did, which you overlooked their answers), and which you did now no longer very well studies those tendencies previous to writing you 'period in-between record,' and which you alternatively selected to leap to the insinuation the the County had acted unlawfully, is woefully insufficient and irresponsible for an Attorney General, not to mention any lawyer," the supervisors wrote.
The supervisors mentioned that during Brnovich's period in-between record he referred to man or woman voter fraud exposed thru his research, however no unique instances had been stated withinside the record itself. A hyperlink covered withinside the record is going to a list of 34 instances of voter fraud in Arizona dedicated when you consider that 2010. Many of these instances did now no longer take place in Maricopa County and had been now no longer associated with the 2020 election.
The supervisors additionally took difficulty with a number of Brnovich's feedback throughout an April 7 interview with Steve Bannon on the previous Trump advisor's podcast.
During the interview Brnovich instructed Bannon that Maricopa County had used synthetic intelligence to check ballot signatures in 2020, however the county mentioned that Brnovich's investigators have been instructed time and again that AI became now no longer used for signature verification in 2020.
"In short, your workplace knew that each one signatures had been proven with the aid of using human beings," the supervisors wrote. "You country publicly the opposite. Repeatedly.
Brnovich is dating Trump's endorsement for his run for certainly considered one among Arizona's U.S. Senate seats, in a race towards Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.