Maricopa County supervisors' chairman lashes out at an Arizona senator's subpoena for yet more 2020 election documents.
PHOENIX — The chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is lashing out at a senator's subpoena ordering the board to produce certain documents by Monday.
That information was provided by the county only to the Senate after other subpoenas were issued last year, Gates said. Public release by anyone, he said, is a Class 6 felony, punishable by up to a year in state prison.As to the latest subpoena, Gates said the supervisors have made no decision on whether they will show up Monday at the Senate Government Committee that Townsend chairs.What Gates said Tuesday, however, angered Townsend.
"Is it the job of the Board of Supervisors to make a determination if something was done illegally and then obstruct the efforts of the attorney general to conduct an investigation into the matter?'' said Townsend, an Apache Junction Republican. She called it"shoddy obstructionism.'' "Why do we need a state Senate subpoena nearly two years on to get information from the county Board of Supervisors when the attorney general himself could issue the same subpoena and get the information straightaway?'' she asked. Instead, Brnovich's office has relied on public records requests.
He said Ayyadurai used"faulty data extrapolation'' for his claim that more than 200,000 signatures on early ballots did not match.He said thousands of documents, data and equipment were provided to the Senate for its review of the 2020 election results. As of the first week in February, the county had produced more than 4,400 documents and five PowerPoint slide decks to the Attorney General's Office, Gates said.
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