1.05

Control Environment

Principle 1: Demonstrate Commitment to Integrity and Ethical Value

Attribute: 1.05: Tone at the top can be either a driver, as shown in the preceding paragraphs, or a barrier to internal control. Without a strong tone at the top to support an internal control system, the entity's risk identification may be incomplete, risk responses may be inappropriate, control activities may not be appropriately designed or implemented, information and communication may falter, and results of monitoring may not be understood or acted upon to remediate deficiencies.

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Jamies Story

March 12, 2026: This is How Maricopa County Wants to be Represented in Court

This specific discussion of a Potential Green Book Deviation is from a sub-section titled, Contract with the Motor Vehicle Department (MVD).

The MC legal team claimed there is no contract between MC and the Arizona MVD. This is almost impossible to comprehend given that the MVD was performing voter registration activities with a direct impact to election outcomes and yet, there was no written agreement between these two government entities. Given there is virtual certainty of some type of written agreement, I can assume that I was denied access to the documentation because I did not use the correct terminology in my records request, even though my intent was clear.

Potential Green Book Deviation:

Contrary to the Green Book, I presume that I was denied access to the written agreement between MC and the Arizona MVD because MC management simply didn't want to disclose the agreement. The bureaucratic work around may have been to deny my request based on a technicality. Perhaps the written agreement was called a Memorandum of Understanding instead of a contract. Maybe, the other government entity was Arizona Department of Transportation, not the MVD. The act of denying access to the written agreement because I did not use the correct terminology would violate ethical practices given there is no public information available from which I would have been able to use the correct terminology. With this supposition, MC management and legal team would be collaborating on this questionable tactic to deny public access to records that directly relate to internal controls.

Election Anomalies

Arizona Senate Allegations

As already noted in Green Book Attribute 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 and 1.04 Arizona Senate allegations arose from a failure to recognize the Arizona Senates Oversight Role. These allegations were investigated and reported on by the Arizona Attorney General's Office 2020 General Election Investigation. The elected officials were considered as a possible oversight entity for MC operations.

This Green Book attribute emphasizes "Tone at the top can be either a driver, as shown in the preceding paragraphs, or a barrier to internal control." The MCBOS didn't cooperated with the Senate. The MCBOS did not respond to subpoenas issued (twice) by the Senate. Instead, the MCBOS chose to pursue court remedies to keep their information private and prevent outsiders from inspecting their equipment. If this is the tone at the top, how do you think subordinates would respond to inquiries?

This potential deviation from the Green Book standard applies to the following Arizona Senate Allegations:

• Allegation #1 Signature Verifciaton
• Allegation #2, Maricopa Dropbox Collection (2020)
• Allegation #3, Maricopa Election Management Server (2020)

All of the following are sub-allegations of Allegation #3:

• MC EMS 2020 - Election Management System Database Purged
• MC EMS 2020 - Election Files Deleted
• MC EMS 2020 - Corrupt Ballot Images
• MC EMS 2020 - Missing Ballot Images
• MC EMS 2020 - Failure to Follow Basic Cyber Security Practices
• MC EMS 2020 - Subpoenaed Equipment Not Yet Provided
• MC EMS 2020 - Anonymous Logins
• MC EMS 2020 - Dual Boot System Discovered
• MC EMS 2020 - Operating System Logs Not Preserved
• MC EMS 2020 - Internet Connections to the EMS

• Allegation #4, Maricopa County Withholding Audit Data (2020)
  • The uncooperative tone is clearly displayed by the MCBOS and MCBOS member Bill Gates.
• Allegation #5, Pima County Embedded 35,000 Votes (2020)
• Allegation #6, Unknown Published Election Fraud Flyer (2020)