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Risk Assessment

Principle 7 - Identify, Analyze, and Respond to Risks

Attribute 7.09 - Risks may be analyzed individually or grouped into categories with related risks and analyzed collectively. Regardless of whether risks are analyzed individually or collectively, management considers the correlation among different risks or groups of risks when estimating their significance. The specific risk analysis methodology used can vary by entity because of differences in entities' missions and the difficulty in qualitatively and quantitatively defining risk tolerances.

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Jamie's Story

No examples are available to illustrate governance gaps for this attribute.

Election Anomalies

Principle 7 addresses the need to Identify, Analyze, and Respond to Risks. The identification and analysis of risk are presumed to have been performed at the state level, which are addressed in the Arizona Secretary of State's Election Procedure Manual. The MC leadership team's Response to Risk is the primary governance weakness with respect to the Green Book's Principle #7, including this attribute.

Arizona Senate Allegations

Arizona Senate allegations arose from MC's 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. In their oversight role, the Arizona Senate sought to understand the risk to accurate tabulation of election results given the abundance of election-related anomalies.

This Green Book attribute guides the assessment of risk to consider the individual and grouped threats. In this case, some of these specific allegations had the potential to corrupt or mask the corruption of election tabulation results. Collectively, the risks were even greater. Both perspectives were ignored, which necessitated the Arizona Senate's turnover of allegations to the AZ AG. This potential deviation from the Green Book standard applies to the following Arizona Senate Allegations: