Stephen Richer tried to stay out of it. "But I am human," the Maricopa County, Arizona, election official wrote for CNN Opinion, "I have my limits." He tweeted "this is unhinged" after former President Trump repeated a lie about a missing election database.
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Arizona’s Top Elections Official Tells Maricopa County to Get New Election Machines
Machines being audited may have been compromised, Arizona s secretary of state alleges
Arizona’s secretary of state on Thursday warned the state’s largest county not to try to use election machines that are being audited or she would decertify the equipment.
“I have grave concerns regarding the security and integrity of these machines, given that the chain of custody, a critical security tenet, has been compromised and election officials do not know what was done to the machines while under Cyber Ninjas’ control,” Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, wrote in a letter to Maricopa County officials.
Suspicious ‘White Powder’ Sent to Arizona’s GOP Senate President Amid Maricopa Audit
The Arizona Department of Public Safety confirmed it visited Republican State Senate President Karen Fann’s office on Wednesday to investigate reports of a suspicious package with an unidentified substance inside.
The state agency’s spokesman, Sergeant Jimmy Chavez, said DPS “responded to the Arizona State Senate in response to a suspicious package call.” The package was then taken by the agency’s hazardous materials union before it was submitted to the state crime lab to investigate its contents.
Mike Philipsen, a spokesman for the state Senate GOP, told media outlets an assistant to Fann opened a letter that was addressed to her, adding that a “small amount of substance was observed from the mailing.”