The chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors says another subpoena issued by a Senate Republican lawmaker is unwarranted and based on the “discredited work” of an election conspiracy theorist.
In a statement Tuesday, Bill Gates did not say how he and his colleagues would respond to the Senate’s latest demands, which calls for them to produce information by Monday. But he described the subpoena issued by Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, as wholly unnecessary “given the volume of correspondence between investigators and the county.”
Townsend issued the subpoena after Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) publicized a letter sent by the Attorney General’s Office to Maricopa County on March 9. Both the wording of the letter, and Fann’s tweet, suggested that county supervisors were trying to hide something from investigators.
Gates said nothing could be further from the truth, and pointed to in-depth tours of election facilities and the more than 4,400 documents already provided to the Attorney General’s Office as evidence of their compliance.
“It doesn’t take a letter, much less a subpoena to gather information,” Gates stated. “A phone call is an effective form of communication.”
Though the county is processing the attorney general’s latest request, Gates also took issue with the impetus for the letter — an analysis of signatures on early ballot envelopes by Shiva Ayyadurai, a subcontractor who previously botched an analysis of signatures verified during the 2020...
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