Attorney General Mark Brnovich requested potential evidence of illegal voting from the Arizona secretary of state, according to a new report.
The email sent Wednesday by Jennifer Wright, an assistant attorney general overseeing Brnovich’s election integrity unit, follows Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs asking the Republican attorney general on July 7 to investigate possible election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential race.
“The (attorney general) has not received any information from your office regarding potential double voting in the 2018 or 2020 election,” Wright wrote, according to a copy obtained by the Arizona Republic. “Notably, this is the first time in over a decade the AGO has received no referrals from the Secretary of State regarding double voting.”
Wright also wrote: “Additionally, please provide any and all records your office possesses related to potential violations of Arizona’s election laws.”
Hobbs’s office is awaiting a report from a national organization that works with states to help identify potential double voting cases, a spokesperson for the secretary of state said on Friday. But the spokesperson added that the secretary of state was sending records on Friday, which the report indicated were related to correspondence recently disclosed to the public about Trump allies reaching out to Maricopa County officials about the election.
ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL ASKED TO CONDUCT ELECTION INTERFERENCE INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP AND ALLIES
Brnovich shot back at criticism from the U.S. Justice Department of the Arizona Senate’s audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
“Arizona will not sit back and let the Biden administration abuse its authority, refuse to uphold laws, or attempt to commandeer our state’s sovereignty,” Brnovich said in June.
So far, four cases of election fraud have been discovered and met with criminal charges in Arizona, two involving Democratic voters and two more involving Republican voters. There are fewer than 200 cases of possible voter fraud among the more than 3 million ballots cast in the 2020 contest in Arizona, according to an Associated Press report Friday.
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The Washington Examiner contacted Hobbs’s team and Brnovich’s office but did not immediately receive a response.
