PHOENIX, AZ – On Thursday, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann announced the Senate will receive the audit report on the 2020 Maricopa County General Election on September 24. Sen. Fann said the report will be unveiled on the floor of the Senate chamber at 1:00 p.m.
Sen. Fann said the announcement followed a request by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to attorneys for the Senate to give a date certain for the release.
The report is being released despite the fact that Maricopa County, under the direction of the Board of Supervisors, has refused to turn over materials subpoenaed by the Senate, including routers which could show evidence of an unauthorized intrusion into the County’s IT systems.
The decision to withhold information and defy the Senate has landed the County in hot water with the Arizona Attorney general’s Office.
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has given the supervisors until September 27 to turn over the router and the administrative passwords for the Dominion Voting System equipment used by the County, or he will order the Treasurer’s Office to refrain from releasing over 40 percent of the County’s $1.6 billion general fund revenues, as per Arizona statute.