The FBI is probing past elections in Arizona’s largest county, according to a top Republican state lawmaker, who says he provided the bureau with records related to the 2020 election.
Warren Peterson, the GOP president of the state Senate, said on social media Monday that he recently complied with a federal subpoena for records from a legislative audit of the state’s 2020 election results.
“The FBI has the records,” Peterson added.
The audit itself has been public for several years, and its results have been widely discredited.
News of the probe emerged after a far-right news outlet and President Donald Trump both claimed the FBI had seized voter data from Maricopa County election agencies — an assertion that echoed the bureau’s January raid on an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia.
Despite the subpoena announced by Peterson, those claims appear to be false.
Both counties have been leading targets in Trump’s attempts to challenge his loss in the 2020 presidential race, as part of his broader campaign to assert control over U.S. elections. As such, FBI efforts to access election records in Maricopa County represent the Trump administration’s latest move to relitigate past votes and undermine future ones.
But sifting facts from false claims about the Maricopa probe has been no simple task.
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