Arizona Senate Issues Fresh Subpoenas for 2020 Election Audit

Arizona senators issued a new subpoena to the stateโ€™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 Countyโ€™s Board of Supervisors to turn over ballot envelopes or ballot envelope images, voter records, and routers or router images.

The Republican-controlled board was also commanded to provide all findings concerning any systems breach that took place within six months of the Nov. 3, 2020, election, as well as all usernames and passwords for machines used in the election.

The board was also told to appear at the Arizona State Capitol for a hearing on Aug. 2.

Failure to comply may constitute contempt of the Legislature, the board was told.

Fann said in a statement that the county โ€œcontinues to withhold vital information from the public and the auditors which has created additional costs, months of delays and a lack of transparency on their part.โ€

A board spokesman told media outlets that the county โ€œhas already provided everything competent auditors would need to confirm the accuracy and security of the 2020 election.โ€

โ€œThe board will review the materials requested with our legal team and respond in the coming days,โ€ the spokesman said.

Senators also subpoenaed information from Dominion Voting Systems, whose machines Maricopa County leases. Dominion said in a statement to news outlets that it wouldnโ€™t comply with the subpoena, which seeks administrative passwords for the machines.

Contractors hired by the Republican-controlled state Senate have been conducting an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County since April. The county submitted the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in the election, as well as 385 tabulators and other items.

Those items were ordered to be turned over by subpoenas issued late last year.

But county officials also refused to provide some of the subpoenaed items, despite a judge ruling the subpoenas lawful after the county claimed that they were overbroad and outside the scope of the Arizona Senateโ€™s authority.

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