So the former AG of Arizona launched an investigation into fraud in 2020.
The attorney general’s probe stretched through 2022, as Brnovich’s office spent more than 10,000 hours examining claims of irregularities, malfeasance and fraud, records show. At one point, the office set up a command center, and “the review of the audit was made a singular, high-level priority; all hands were assigned to work exclusively on reviewing the audit with other matters being placed on hold unless a matter required immediate action on our part,” a report said. Mayes said the office has about 60 investigators, all of whom participated in the probe at some point, along with lawyers and support staff.
Brnovich then did not issue the report that group provided but created his own charging "serious vulnerabilities". The thing is, that isn't what the group found. The new AG has released the official report. Here is a mention of what they did find:By September 2022, a year into the inquiry, the special investigations section had received 638 election-related complaints and deemed 430 of them worthy of investigation. Of those, just 22 cases were submitted for prosecutorial review; two cases involving felons who illegally sought to vote were prosecuted, leading to convictions.
The interim report suggested there were serious vulnerabilities with early voting. His staff wrote a letter saying they never discovered that, of course their letter was nor released until now:
The interim report, delivered in the form of a letter to Karen Fann, then the Republican president of the state Senate, was met by Trump allies as confirmation that voting in Maricopa County was corrupted. The letter, sent on April 6, highlighted management of early voting, saying, “We can report that there are problematic system-wide issues that relate to early ballot handling and verification.”
But Brnovich’s staff took issue with his criticism of the handling and verification of ballots, writing in a draft of the letter, “We did not uncover any criminality or fraud having been committed in this area during the 2020 general election.”
