Arizona is now a hotspot of anti-voting actions. We obtained records of communications between the Arizona attorney general’s office and voting-restriction activists regarding the Brnovich v. DNC U.S. Supreme Court case. #FoiaFriday
In 2016, the Arizona legislature limited who could provide ballot-collection assistance to people voting by mail. Arizona also had a policy of entirely rejecting ballots cast in the wrong precinct. The policy disproportionately impacted Native American and Latinx Arizonans.
The DNC sued Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, arguing that the 2016 law violated a provision of the Voting Rights Act. In a blow for voting-rights advocates, the Supreme Court ruled in Brnovich’s favor this July. nytimes.com/2021/07/01/us/…
We obtained emails between the Arizona attorney general’s office and voting-restriction groups regarding the case. americanoversight.org/document/arizo…
On Dec. 4, 2020, J. Christian Adams — who is head of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group that pushes for aggressive voter-roll purges — emailed PILF’s amicus brief in the case to Brnovich’s executive assistant.
Ryan Anderson, the attorney general’s office communications director, emailed Hans von Spakovsky — who worked in the Bush Justice Department and is now with the Heritage Foundation — to ask if “there was anything else” the office could do related to the case.
Also in December, an official from the attorney general’s office told von Spakovsky that the office was “excited to call attention to [Heritage’s report on the Brnovich case] on twitter today.”
We recently obtained more than 80,000 pages of records related to the Arizona Senate’s partisan election “audit” — learn more here: americanoversight.org/arizona-senate…
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New: The Arizona Senate has now asked Cyber Ninjas to make “audit” records available to the Senate. This follows yesterday’s order from the Arizona Supreme Court that effectively upholds lower court rulings that the documents are public records. americanoversight.org/document/ameri…
“[P]lease immediately make available to the Arizona State Senate all records within your custody or control...with a substantial nexus to the audit,” Arizona Senate President Karen Fann wrote to the Cyber Ninjas firm yesterday.
”[D]ocuments with a substantial nexus to the audit include without limitation all documents and communications relating to the planning and performance or execution of the audit, all policies and procedures used in connection with the audit…
This week, we’re doing a deep dive on the Big Lie. On Monday, we discussed the years of voter-fraud activism that laid the foundation. Yesterday, we talked about attempts to stop the certification of the 2020 election. Today, we’re talking about the Jan. 6 attack.
The myth of a stolen election built through the sheer force of a unified lie came to a head on Jan. 6, 2021, when a “Stop the Steal” rally led by Donald Trump turned into a violent mob that stormed the Capitol while lawmakers prepared to certify the presidential election results.
One Capitol Police officer and four Trump supporters died in the attack on the Capitol; four law enforcement officers who responded to the attack died by suicide in the following months.
Michael Gabelman, the lawyer hired to run Wisconsin’s bogus election investigation, has been consulting with Shiva Ayyadurai, an election conspiracy theorist.
Records we obtained show Ayyadurai and Gabelman’s connections to the Arizona “audit.” jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
On Aug. 1, Christina Bobb from One America News asked Arizona Senate President Karen Fann if she could share her contact information with former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman. Fann replied, “Absolutely of course.”
Gableman was also in contact with Arizona “audit” spokesman Randy Pullen. Records we obtained show that in August, Pullen sent Gableman "three big political points" about the sham “audit.”
BREAKING: The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a petition from the Arizona Senate, leaving in place two lower court rulings that records in the physical custody of “audit” election contractor Cyber Ninjas are public records and must be released. americanoversight.org/arizona-suprem…
The court’s decision also dissolves the stay on a state judge’s order that the Arizona Senate produce documents held in the physical custody of election “audit” contractor Cyber Ninjas.
Each day this week, we’re breaking down an element of the Big Lie. Yesterday, we discussed the years of anti-voting activism that laid the foundation. Today, we’re talking about attempts to stop the certification of the 2020 election. americanoversight.org/from-voter-fra…
When polls closed on Nov. 3, 2020, the result of the presidential election was unclear, in part because of the additional challenges of counting absentee ballots. Four days after Election Day, all the major networks and news agencies called the race for Biden.
Trump and his supporters turned up their efforts to undermine confidence in the results, with a particular focus on the states where the vote had been the closest: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
NEW: County officials in Pennsylvania have been ordered to begin releasing election “audit” documents within 30 days in response to our records requests. americanoversight.org/pennsylvania-c…
Fulton County, Penn., was an early testing ground for the use of sham “audits” to cast doubt on the 2020 election — including the involvement of at least one company that would go on to play a major role in Arizona.
Fulton’s “audits” in Dec. 2020 and Feb. 2021, backed by pro-Trump Sen. Doug Mastriano and others, were conducted by the company Wake TSI — which worked as a contractor to a nonprofit operated by Sidney Powell, who represented Trump in election challenges. azmirror.com/2021/05/24/gro…