AZ Senate President Hammers Maricopa County Chair Over 3 ‘Serious Issues’ Interfering With Election Audit

Five months after the Arizona state Senate issued subpoenas for election records from Maricopa County, the state is still battling to get to the facts over November’s election.

A letter from Senate President Karen Fann to Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers said the county has failed to comply with the subpoenas, and the audit done to date has uncovered some troubling findings.

The Senate called for an audit to resolve, once and for all, any questions over the accuracy of the count. But Fann’s letter citing three “serious issues” uncovered to date — ongoing non-compliance with the legislative subpoenas, chain of custody and ballot organization anomalies, and deleted databases — said it appears data needed to complete the task is missing.

“We have recently discovered that the entire ‘Database’ directory from the D drive of the machine ‘EMSPrimary’ has been deleted. This removes election related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena,” the letter said.

“In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, ‘Results Tally and Reporting,’ is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed.”

Former President Donald Trump shared a copy of the letter on his website, and offered his take on its significance.

“A devastating letter written by Arizona Senate President Karen Fann on voting irregularities, and probably fraud, in Maricopa County during the