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Arizona State Senate President Warren Petersen has complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the 2020 election audit in Maricopa County. The FBI is now in possession of these records. The subpoena comes after a controversial review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, which was widely criticised as being partisan and was initiated by the previous state Senate president, a Republican; the review still confirmed Donald Trump’s loss in the county.
Arizona’s state Senate president has complied with a subpoena demanding records from a review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County. Republican Warren Petersen confirmed on X that the FBI has the records. Jason Berry, a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, affirmed that the County runs elections in accordance with the law and would cooperate if a subpoena was issued.
A disputed 2020 review
Trump’s narrow loss in Arizona, particularly in Maricopa County – the state’s largest – lead to unfounded allegations of election fraud by Trump and his advocates. The 2020 review saw a Florida-based cybersecurity firm with no previous experience in elections conduct it, which was widely discredited as poor and biased by election specialists. The review nonetheless verified Trump’s loss in the county.
News of the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election materials from Georgia’s Fulton County in late January resonates with this latest action in Arizona. The affidavit supporting the seizure was based on false claims. Many election officials in key states that Trump lost in 2020 anticipate their offices could be targeted similarly by federal law enforcement.
Democrat Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes states that “There’s never been anything really wrong with election administration in America, except for the fact that Donald Trump lies about it.”
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