Will Arizona be next?
A Georgia grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others Monday on charges related to their efforts to reverse the results of the state's 2020 presidential election. Prosecutors called it a "criminal enterprise."...
...In Arizona, Biden's margin of victory was even tighter than in Georgia, and pressure campaigns to flip the election to Biden emerged immediately after votes were counted. The state's fake electors and the Arizona Senate's hand recount of 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots remain under investigation by the Arizona Attorney General's Office....
...Attorney General Kris Mayes answers questions during an interview on March 14, 2023, in her office at 2005 N. Central Avenue in Phoenix.
That document alleges the same criminal enterprise that operated in Georgia on Trump's behalf also operated in Arizona.
Like Georgia, Arizona was a nexus of coordinated attempts to challenge 2020 election results.
Arizona saw a campaign by Trump's legal team to pressure state lawmakers not to certify results; two slates of fake electors certifying that Trump carried the state; and the "audit," which sowed doubts in the voting process.
The fake electors scheme was the brainchild of John Eastman, a lawyer on Trump's legal team who proposed the competing slates could create confusion and give Vice President Mike Pence the justification needed to toss out votes from all seven states....
...The "audit" in Arizona was the only privately run recount of ballots in the U.S. Former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley in June called for state and county authorities to investigate Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, the "audit" coordinator, for potential criminal charges.
Romley, a Republican, said it was not a partisan issue. He said Logan defied court orders to turn over thousands of communications related to the ballot review. Logan is not only in contempt of court, he also appears to have violated a state law that makes withholding public records a Class 6 felony, Romley said
