Maricopa County officials have not fully complied with the State Senate’s election audit subpoenas, a decision made to avoid causing a “significant security risk” to data utilized by numerous law enforcement agencies, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said Monday.
“We had previously believed that the risk would be eliminated by redacting the law enforcement data on the routers and not producing it. But we were informed that redaction did not eliminate the risk,” Deputy County Attorney Joseph LaRue wrote in a letter to Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett. “We also learned that if criminal elements or others gained access to this data, it might compromise county and federal law enforcement efforts and put the lives of law enforcement personnel at risk.”
Here we are several weeks into the audit, and we still do not have some of the information that was subpoenaed,” Bennett said. “They told me personally weeks ago that they had taken all the routers and the internet connections and the hubs and everything out of the building so they could send it to us.”
Bennett told Harris that Maricopa County’s elections officials said the auditors would have access to logs needed to confirm the electronic equipment had never been hooked up to the internet.
“And lo and behold, they don’t show up in the equipment that they said would be delivered to us,” Bennett said.
Bennett’s comments Monday represents the first time the public has heard of allegations that Maricopa County not fully complying with the subpoenas. The issue was not addressed during any of the four court hearings held about the audit in the last 10 days, including one at the Arizona Supreme Court.
“What is ludicrous is not having an audit, what is ludicrous is the county and others won’t even give you the information that the judge said they should give you,” Bennett said.
Sauce please. Provide a link to corroborate this, please.
Is this it? https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2021/05/03/maricopa-county-admits-to-withholding-routers-demanded-in-senate-subpoena/
And this? https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2021/05/03/senate-audit-liaison-accuses-maricopa-county-board-of-violating-subpoenas/