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Maricopa County Board Votes Against Complying With Subpoenas to Audit Voting Machines | 18 Dec 2020 | The Board of Supervisors in Arizona's Maricopa County on Friday voted 4-1 to file a complaint in the Arizona Superior Court and won’t comply with state Senate-issued subpoenas to hand over voting machines used in the Nov. 3 election for an audit, as well as an audit of scanned ballots. A lawsuit will be filed against lawmakers in the Arizona State Legislature to block the enforcement of the subpoenas, county officials said. The subpoenas were issued earlier this week by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Eddie Farnsworth, a Republican, had issued the subpoena to audit Dominion Voting Systems machines and ballots in the county, with a deadline for Friday at 5 p.m. Maricopa County Chairman of the Board Clint Hickman, a Republican, said during Friday’s session the subpoenas were unconstitutional and a "slap in the face."
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Arizona officials who planned to help overturn the election in favor of Trump worried that activating a group of fake electors 'could appear treasonous': report
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
Tue, August 2, 2022 at 5:20 PM
US President Donald Trump (R) is greeted by the Chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party Kelli Ward as he arrives to deliver remarks on immigration and border security at the international airport in Yuma, Arizona on August 18, 2020.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
- Arizona GOP officials planned to install a fake set of electors to overturn the state's 2020 election in favor of Trump.
- The chairwoman of the Arizona GOP and a state senator both raised concerns about the plan.
- The officials worried their actions "could appear treasonous," The New York Times reported.
Two Arizona GOP officials who helped plan to overturn the 2020 election worried their actions "could appear treasonous,"
The New York Times reported.
The officials planned to install an alternate set of electors to vote in favor of Donald Trump after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election. A
similar plan was in place in Georgia, where some of the would-be electors
could face charges for election interference, conspiracy, and racketeering.
Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, and Kelly Townsend, a state senator, both raised concerns about the plan that were circulated among Trump's legal team, according to emails published by
The New York Times.
"Ward and Townsend are concerned it could appear treasonous for the AZ electors to vote on Monday if there is no pending court proceeding that might, eventually, lead to the electors being ratified as the legitimate ones," Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer working for Mr. Trump's campaign, wrote in a 2020 email published by
The New York Times.
The word "treasonous" appeared in bold.
The email was sent to a group that included Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Ward, despite her concerns, ultimately supported the plan and signed a document that falsely claimed to be a "certificate of the votes of the 2020 electors from Arizona" and falsely asserted that Trump won the state's 11 Electoral College votes.
Townsend did not sign the document.
Representatives for Ward and Townsend did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.