Arizona Attorney General's Office 2020 Election Investigation

This page highlights some observations of the Arizona Attorney General's Office 2020 Election Investigation of allegations from the Arizona Senate from September 24, 2021. The Arizona Attorney General (AZ AG) is responsible for investigating criminal allegations related to Election Fraud committed within the State of Arizona.

This website is focused on identifying governance gaps within Arizona Counties for the purpose of showing the need for Legislative Action to pass laws that hold the counties accountable for listening to and addressing citizen concerns. The AZ AG's report was used to identify potential governance gaps.

Separate from the collection of data being collected from the AZ AG's report to identify potential governance gaps, some of the inspector's observations are worthy of being highlighted on this page. Key points may be lost during the comparison of county behaviors to the US GAO's Green Book, which was being used as a standard for good governance in the absence of any known standard being applied by Maricopa County.

Finally, some of the inspector's investigative practices appear shallow, considering this was referred to the Arizona Attorney General's Office as a criminal investigation. Generally speaking, the Inspector relied heavily on interviews to reach report findings. None of the findings resulted in criminal charges. For example, five procedure violations in Allegation #2 were confirmed. These procedure violations were no by themselves acts of fraud committed by Maricopa County workers. However, these procedure violations were lapses in security measures intended to protect against fraud. Thus, Maricopa County workers did not commit acts of fraud, they knowingly or unknowingly, facilitated acts of fraud by not protecting early ballot security. The AZ AG's inspector could not determine the willingness of MC workers to participate in fraud without intrusive investigation to find objective evidence.

In a sad perspective, the AZ AG's shallow investigation seems in some ways to reflect poor governance at the state level whereas this assessment is concerned about poor governance at the county level. At its worst, the shallow investigation would appear to show collusion in the cover up of fraud perpetrated by others.