The Republican-led Maricopa County Board of Supervisors condemned the state Senate’s GOP-led audit of the county’s 2020 election results as a “sham” in a letter Monday.
In a letter to GOP senators announcing that the board will cease all cooperation with the GOP state senators’ efforts, the board accused state senators of allowing Arizona to become a “laughingstock” as they pursued discredited, false claims of election fraud perpetrated by former President Trump.
“You are photographing ballots contrary to the laws that the Senate helped enact, and you are sending those images to unidentified places and people. You have repeatedly lost control of your Twitter account, which has tweeted things that appear to be the rantings of a petulant child—not the serious statements of a serious audit,” wrote the board.
“I will not be responding to any more requests from this sham process. Finish your audit and be ready to defend what you’re finding in a court of law,” added Chairman Jack Sellers (R) at Monday’s meeting of the board, according to The Washington Post.
The blistering letter issued Monday by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is just the latest instance of local GOP officials bucking the former president’s disproven claims about the 2020 election, as did Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) last year amid Trump’s efforts to overturn that state’s results.
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Trump himself has lent support to efforts to overturn his defeat. He recently told a crowd at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida that should Arizona’s audit uncover fraud, other states would do the same.
“Let’s see what they find. I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes,” Trump said earlier this month.
“After that, we’ll watch Pennsylvania, and you watch Georgia, then you’re going to watch Michigan and Wisconsin, and you’re watching New Hampshire,” he added.
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JUST IN: GOP-led Maricopa County board slams 2020 election recount as a "sham" in blistering letter https://t.co/QwfHqZ5E81 pic.twitter.com/WDhZcEw7jT
— The Hill (@thehill) May 18, 2021
GOP Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates: "Now it's time to say: 'enough is enough.' It is time to push back on the big lie." pic.twitter.com/Rvk2zZ3AXd
— The Hill (@thehill) May 18, 2021
Stephen Richer, Maricopa County Recorder: "We will do everything we can to comply with the law. But the defamatory lies that have been leaked out irresponsibly by an anonymous Twitter account without being controlled by the Senate needs to stop." pic.twitter.com/3G9GvEYVEb
— The Hill (@thehill) May 18, 2021
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