8.08
Risk Assessment
Principle 8 - Assess Fraud, Improper Payment, and Information Security Risk
Attribute 8.08 - In addition to fraud, management considers other forms of misconduct that can occur, such as waste and abuse. Waste is the act of using or expending resources carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. Abuse involves behavior that is deficient or improper when compared with behavior that a prudent person would consider reasonable and necessary operational practice given the facts and circumstances. Abuse may include corruption through the misuse of authority or position for personal gain or for the benefit of another. Waste and abuse do not necessarily involve fraud, though fraudulent misrepresentations may be made to conceal such misconduct. The presence of waste and abuse may indicate potential fraud and an environment that is conducive to fraud. Waste and abuse may also impact the achievement of defined objectives.
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Jamie's Story
Additional details regarding this aspect of my story are available in a subsection titled Contract with the Motor Vehicle Department (MVD).
According the Superior Court ruling, the Judge concurred with the Defendant's position that there are no written contracts between MC and the MVD as presented in this March 12, 2026 Defendants' Brief submitted to the court. This Green Book Attribute describes abuse as "involv[ing] behavior that is deficient or improper when compared with behavior that a prudent person would consider reasonable and necessary operational practice given the facts and circumstances.
Potential Green Book Deviation
Contrary to the Green Book, some form of abuse may have occurred within MC in that a prudent manager would have insisted on some form of a written agreement between MC and the MVD given the exchange of sensitive digital voter registration data between them. Instead, MC managers and legal team insisted that no records were created because Arizona statutes did not require documentation. Arizona statutes rarely specify documentation requirements. A decision to not create a record appears to be an abuse of power, given the absence of these records would preclude any oversight or investigative entity from revealing fraud. The lack of transparency and number of election-related anomalies my indicate fraud as a means to conceal misconduct as noted within Attribute 8.08.
Election Anomalies
Governance issues identified from Arizona Attorney General's Office 2020 General Election Investigation of Arizona Senate allegations of Maricopa County - Signature Verification Process issues.
"Abuse may include corruption through the misuse of authority or position for personal gain or for the benefit of another."
There is a distinct possibility that MC Elections management may have been abusing power without conducting acts of fraud. MC Elections management may have been emphasizing the importance of a quick pace given Director of Elections told the AZ AG's inspector "Level I Signature Verifiers should be able to process around 250 signature verifications every 30 minutes (7.2 seconds per ballot)." The rationale for the quick pace may have been considered reasonable considering 1,910,317 early ballots required signature verification.
Abuse of power may have been to lower standards in order to quicken the pace and report election results in a timely manner.
The easiest detection of a signature mismatch is when no signature appears on the envelop. Signature Verifiers flagged 16,539 early ballots as having no signature on the envelop. A signature mismatch is more complicated. In fact, the 44 signature verifiers were only able to identify 587 "bad' signatures. Abuse of authority may have occurred given the low rate of detecting "bad" signatures from a pool of almost two million early ballots
