The Arizona state Senate complied with a federal subpoena about its assessment of the 2020 presidential election within the Phoenix space, in accordance to the Senate president.
Their assessment of the election confirmed Joe Biden’s win within the state.
“Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County,” Senate President Warren Peterson said in a post on X. “The FBI has the records.”
The subpoena seems to develop the administration’s wide-ranging investigation into the 2020 presidential election. President Donald Trump has baselessly claimed the election was stolen from him.
NCS has reached out to the Justice Department and FBI for remark.
Maricopa County was a spotlight of Trump and his allies after his 2020 loss, and NCS reported on the time that White House officers tried to name a senior county official as half of their stress marketing campaign.
The FBI has additionally executed a search warrant in January on the Fulton County elections office, although it’s not instantly clear whether or not the 2 investigations are linked.
Officials have additionally said that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is operating her personal inquiry into the 2020 election outcomes.
In the wake of the 2020 election and Trump’s repeated claims of fraud, Arizona Senate Republicans performed a months-long, partisan assessment of the two.1 million ballots forged in Maricopa County. The Senate launched their full report as soon as it was completed.
Republicans employed an organization referred to as Cyber Ninjas, which had no expertise auditing election outcomes, to conduct the assessment. The firm shuttered in 2022.
Maricopa County officers issued a 93-page rebuttals to the assessment, saying that the one error the audit accurately recognized was that fifty ballots had mistakenly been double counted – not sufficient to shift Trump’s loss.
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