{"id":1423867,"date":"2022-04-07T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423867"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:59:48","slug":"arizona-ag-report-2020-election-fraud-in-maricopa-county-raises-questions-about-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-ag-report-2020-election-fraud-in-maricopa-county-raises-questions-about-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona AG Report: 2020 Election Fraud in Maricopa County \u201cRaises Questions\u201d About Outcome\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-ag-report-2020-election-fraud-in-maricopa-county-raises-questions-about-outcome%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423867&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>A blockbuster review of Maricopa County\u2019s mismanaged 2020 election by Arizona\u2019s attorney general is raising new questions about the final vote in a state former President Donald Trump was expected to win but lost to Joe Biden by 10,457 ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached the conclusion that the 2020 election in Maricopa County revealed serious vulnerabilities that must be addressed and raises questions about the 2020 election in Arizona,\u201d said an \u201cinterim report\u201d issued today by Attorney General Mark Brnovich.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 12-page report, reviewed by Secrets, did not condemn the county\u2019s handling of the election outright but raised enough questions about voter identification, ballot handling, and counting to prompt Brnovich to call for a vast tightening of the rules.<\/p>\n<p>It also revealed that he is readying criminal and civil fraud charges against some individuals the attorney general\u2019s Election Integrity Unit has probed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EIU\u2019s review has uncovered instances of election fraud by individuals who have been or will be prosecuted for various election crimes,\u201d said the report on its first page. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The report followed an Arizona Senate probe into the election and ballots in the state\u2019s most populated county. In his follow-up review, Brnovich found serious irregularities with how signatures were verified and ballots safely transported in a state where some 80% voted by mail or absentee.<\/p>\n<p>Brnovich, who has led the nation in calling for election integrity laws and even won a Supreme Court case on the issue, said in his report, \u201cWhether we agree with peoples\u2019 reasons for questioning election integrity or not, we should go above and beyond our call of duty to assure Americans that each legal vote was counted, and no illegal votes were allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue, and his calls for reform, could directly impact his future, as he is running in the GOP Senate primary to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Among the key findings in his report to Senate President Karen Fann:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maricopa officials were not cooperative with his demands for information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In many cases, election officials were given less than five seconds to verify voter signatures on file with ballots filed early.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of ballots nullified because of problems dropped even though those filed nearly doubled in 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There were \u201cmultiple violations\u201d in how about 20% of ballots in drop boxes were handled and delivered to election offices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Some $8 million in outside funds and grants were used in the vote count, now illegal under a recently passed law. Notably, Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife funded more than half of that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe can report that there were problematic system-wide issues that relate to early ballot handling and verification,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n<p>Added Brnovich, \u201cWith each passing election, Americans on all sides of the political spectrum have less confidence in the integrity of our elections. This is a crisis that should be addressed immediately with bipartisan solutions grounded in the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blockbuster review of Maricopa County\u2019s mismanaged 2020 election by Arizona\u2019s attorney general is raising new questions about the final vote in a state former President Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}