Maricopa County Supervisor Chucri Resigns After Recording Reveals Audit Outcome Fears

From left to right: Maricopa County Supervisors Clint Hickman, Steve Chucri, and Steve Gallardo. [Photo courtesy Maricopa County Board of Supervisors]

“You know what I think it was?” Chucri said. “Gates got scared because he barely won, and Jack got scared because he only won by 200 votes, and if there was an audit and a recount, which is pretty bullshit by the way, what would happen in those two races? And that is way too self-serving.”

On Tuesday, Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri announced his intention to resign his position effective November 5.

Chucri’s resignation follows the release of recordings of conversation between him and Republican activist Shelby Busch in which he admitted that he and his fellow board members knew the audit performed on the 2020 General Election was inadequate.

In the recording of the March conversation Chucri reveals his belief that his colleagues did not want a full-scale audit for fear it could show that they did not in fact win their races.

In the audio recording of a March conversation between Chucri and Busch,  published by the Gateway Pundit, Chucri admits his colleagues, Supervisors Bill Gates and Jack Sellers feared an audit would show that they did not win their races.

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“[Hickman] wanted to have a conversation about an audit,” explained Chucri referring to Supervisor Clint Hickman. “He just didn’t have the guts to do that at the end of last year, after I’d been asking for something.”

“This is a blood sport. [He said] I’m not going to kiss your a**, I’m not going to suck up for your vote – I want to earn your vote,” said Chucri. “Whereas those guys want to suck up and kiss up for your vote, and my biggest mistake […] was that I should’ve never believed what I was being told about ‘We couldn’t do more than two percent of an audit before we certified the election.’”

While Chucri claimed that he believed the County could only audit two percent of the vote, it was fairly well-known that supervisors could order, by law, any type of audit of the election. In fact, he admitted that he had been told that by Congressman Andy Biggs and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

“I should’ve listened to Andy Biggs and I think even Brnovich said you could do 30 percent, you could do 60 percent,” claimed Chucri. “They went and screwed up there because I didn’t know about it until it was too late.”

“Unfortunately the political landscape has changed for the worse this year. It is wrought with toxicity – and all civility and decorum no longer seem to have a place. The fixation with the 2020 election results and aftermath have gotten out of control,” Chucri advised constituents in an email blast Tuesday evening. “In recent days it has come to light that I was secretly recorded in conversations regarding differences with some of my colleagues about an audit of the 2020 election. The comments I made were during a very turbulent time. My colleagues have every right to be both angry and disappointed with me. I should not have made such statements and offer my colleagues heartfelt apologies.”

“I do not want to perpetuate the very problem I ran to eliminate several years ago. While I have had many differences with my colleagues, I have known them to be good and honorable and ethical men. The picture some individuals are trying to paint about a cover-up, scam, and other nonsense about my colleagues and myself is simply false,” said Chucri despite the fact that he was the one who alleged that they feared the results. “There was no cover up, the election was not stolen. Biden won.” claimed Chucri.

An audit of the County’s 2020 General Election has been sought by Republicans since before the polls closed on Election Day last November in response to multiple reports of irregularities. As a result of the County’s refusal to do a more comprehensive audit of the election, the Arizona Senate order it won audit of the results and process employed by the County.

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 had 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 would 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.

In order to avoid the penalty, the supervisors and Senate reached a settlement that provides for a Special Master to oversee a review of the router and splunk logs sought by auditors.

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