1.03
Principle 1 - Demonstrate Commitment to Integrity and Ethical Values
Attribute: 1.03: The oversight body and management lead by an example that demonstrates the organization's values, philosophy, and operating style. The oversight body and management set the tone at the top and throughout the organization by their example, which is fundamental to an effective internal control system. In larger entities, the various layers of management in the organizational structure may also set the "tone in the middle." Although it is the oversight body and management's responsibility to set the tone at the top, other personnel throughout the entity play an important role in supporting the tone that permeates the organizational culture.
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Jamie's Story
Katie Hobbs was serving as the Arizona Secretary of State while running for Arizona Governor during the 2022 Mid-term elections. Katie was serving an oversight role for all Arizona county elections as the Arizona Secretary of State. Relevant to this Green Book Attribute 1.02, she refused to recuse herself from the oversight role, from which ethical questions arose. She was setting the tone at the top, complying with the law was important, but ethics, not so much. This sends a signal to subordinates; they may also demonstrate unethical behavior as long as it is legally compliant.
The discussion of Attribute 1.03 is from this March 12, 2026 event, under the subheading of Erroneous Request to Fabricate Records.
At issue, is the Maricopa's County presentation of the concept that they could produce after the fact documentation but are under no statutory obligation to do so. It is presumed that Maricopa County management concurred with this belief, assuming they provided oversight to the legal team's claims made in the Defense brief. In my work experience, after the fact creation of documentation would have been considered unethical or illegal.
Potential Green Book Deviation:
Contrary to the Green Book, Maricopa County management appears to accept the position that documents can be produced after the fact based on the information contained within the Defense Brief. The Legal team claimed Maricopa County could create documentation after the fact but are not obligated to do so.
Election Anomalies
Arizona Senate Allegations
As already noted in Green Book Attribute 1.01 and 1.02, Arizona Senate allegations arose from a failure to recognize the Arizona Senate's 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. In this case, MC Elected Officials and MC leadership were apparently aligned with the position that the Arizona Senate was not entitled to perform oversight. Hence, the oversight and management were both demonstrating a lack of integrity and unethical behavior in the eyes of the public because of their lack of transparency. This potential deviation from the Green Book standard applies to the following Arizona Senate Allegations:
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)
This Green Book Attribute, 1.03, emphasizes the importance of integrity and ethics, included the tone at the top and tone at the middle. Contrary to this attribute, the following unethical practices were revealed by Maricopa County:
- Maricopa County Leadership directed the use of Sharpie Markers on Election Day contrary to their acknowledgement of issues arising from the use of Sharpie Markers, which had occurred prior to October 22, 2020.
- Maricopa County Leadership asked personnel to stop using Sharpie Markers and use Ballpoint Pens until the Election Day in an apparent attempt to prevent premature escalation of the issue until after the election.
- Inspectors were the target audience of this email message. The email asked inspectors to intentionally distribute Sharpie Pens on Election Day in the same email that had also acknowledgeed there are issues with the use of Sharpie Pens on ballots prior to October 22, 2020. The very people (i.e., inspectors) that should have been directing compliance with the ballot instructions the use of ball point pens were being told to violate ballot instructions by ensuring poll workers distributed Sharpie Marker to voters on Election Day, even though there were know issues with Sharpie Markers.
