November 20, 2025: Debbie Lesko Presentation

November 20, 2025: Debbie Lesko Presentation

On November 20, 2025, Debbie Lesko, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS), Representative for District 4, was a guest speaker at the Arizona Legislative District (LD) 25 Republican Committee, which is comprised of Republican Precinct Committeemen/women from the northern portion of LD25.

Missing ballots from the November 4, 2025 meeting was one of the topics Debbie Lesko addressed in her presentation to the Arizona LD25 Republican Committee. These ballots were discovered three days after the election, on November 7, 2025. Debbie's account was similar to a Statement from Maricopa County Elections Department.

Neil Thibodaux was in the audience during the November 20, 2025, Arizona LD25 Republican meeting. Without us ever meeting, he presented a resolution that I had drafted, which was titled "Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Contracts Must Be Open and as Transparent, Subject to Public Oversight, Audits, and Corrective Action Plans (CAP)," As he explains, he was a retired Senior Consulting Engineer for Arizona Public Service and had spent most of his career investigation problems and implementing solutions at Palo Verde Generating Station in accordance with 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI, Corrective Actions. He understood the value of Corrective Actions. Neil presented my resolution, which was unanimously approved by the attendees. He explained to the attendees that he would follow-up with me so he could learn more about my efforts. We met the following week and have been teammates ever since.

Meanwhile, Neil listened to Debbie Lesko tell her story of the missing ballots, which was presented in a manner to calm the audience. The Arizona LD25 Republican Committees needed to be calmed; they had observed election-related anomalies with suspicion during the 2020, 2022, 2024 and now the 2025 elections. With Neil's CAP experience, he simply wanted to know what the MCBOS was going to do to prevent another incident of missing ballots, so he asked.

Debbie explained that no action was necessary because the two transport boxes were found inside of a drop box, which fortunately had been stored in a room with 24 video surveillance and the security seals were still intact.

For most of the audience, the response seemed reasonable. Neil had to turnover the microphone to prevent himself from saying something inappropriate. In his mind, Debbie was using the "no harm, no foul" excuse. Worse yet, they were lucky that the drop box had been under constant surveillance. Anytime an organization relies on luck as a barrier to failure, the organization is dysfunctional. a

In this meeting, Neil observed the MCBOS deny an opportunity to improve the organization through the use of CAP and he also obtained unanimous support for my CAP resolution.