Arizona

Unauthorized Private Operatives in Maricopa County Election Administration (AZ)

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Reasonable Inference CTCL-affiliated operatives and private partner organizations were embedded in Maricopa County election operations without legislative authorization, mirroring the model deployed in Wisconsin and Georgia. Their presence created a parallel, unaccountable decision-making structure operating alongside – and in some instances superseding – the statutory county election authority. The Cyber Ninjas audit subsequently identified chain-of-custody

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Vendor-Directed Obstruction of Legislative Audit – County Directed Dominion Not to Cooperate (AZ)

Arizona, Established Fact, Maricopa County, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States /

Established Fact During the Arizona State Senate’s 2021 forensic audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results, both Maricopa County and its election system vendor Dominion Voting Systems refused to comply with Senate subpoenas for administrative passwords, security tokens, and routers used in the election. The county informed Senate liaison Ken Bennett on May 3, 2021

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Judicial Remedy Arrives Post-Certification; Drop Box Legality Unresolved at Time of Election (AZ)

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Reasonable Inference Unlike Wisconsin, Arizona courts did not issue a definitive pre-certification ruling on the legality of drop box placement and operational standards under CTCL-funded plans. The election was thus administered under unverified private-grant-driven drop box protocols while no judicial or statutory framework governed collection schedules, two-person collection requirements, or surveillance coverage mandates. Citations Arizona

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Alliance for Election Excellence – CTCL Successor NGO Granted Access to Local Election Practices (AZ)

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Established Fact Coconino County entered into a membership agreement with the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence – CTCL’s successor network – granting this private NGO privileged access to sensitive election information and the inner workings of local election practices and administration. This agreement bypassed Arizona’s statutory ban on private election funding and the constitutional chain

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Single Shared Credential Across All EMS Components – Never Rotated Through 2020 Election (AZ)

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Established Fact During the Cyber Ninjas audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election, IT subcontractor Ben Cotton testified before the Arizona Senate on July 15, 2021, that Maricopa County lacked the administrative iButton hardware tokens required for multi-factor authentication into Dominion’s tabulation system at the technician/configuration level. Cotton testified that “only the contract Dominion employees, contracted

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Dominion Vendor Exclusive Control of Administrative iButtons – No County Access (AZ)

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Established Fact Maricopa County did not possess the administrative iButtons (hardware authentication tokens) required to independently access, configure, or validate its own Dominion Voting Systems tabulation infrastructure. Only Dominion Voting Systems retained these tokens, meaning the county was structurally incapable of independently verifying that systems were operating in their certified configuration – a direct violation

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U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence Membership Bypassing State Funding Bans (AZ)

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Established Fact Coconino County joined the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence — a program operated by the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) — as a “basic member” in January 2023, paying annual membership fees in exchange for consulting credits, coaching, and access to resources from Alliance partners. Internal emails obtained via open records

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CTCL/Alliance Funding and Dropbox–GOTV Bias in Maricopa (AZ)

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Established Fact Arizona jurisdictions, led by Maricopa County, accepted CTCL grants that were disproportionately concentrated in Democratic‑leaning areas, with funds used for drop‑box deployment, satellite offices, and targeted voter‑outreach infrastructure. These privately steered operational choices shifted the geographic pattern of convenient voting access in ways that aligned with one party’s base rather than neutral administrative

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Disproportionate Operational Capital Allocation to Democratic Counties (AZ)

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Established Fact Of approximately $6.8 million in total CTCL grants deployed across nine Arizona counties, $5.16 million — roughly 75.8% — went to the four counties that voted for the Democratic presidential candidate (Maricopa, Pima, Coconino, and Apache), including $1.84 million to Maricopa County alone. This operational funding underwrote expanded staffing, ballot processing equipment, and

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Disproportionate CTCL Capital Allocation in Biden-Won Counties (AZ)

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Established Fact Arizona’s Auditor General documented CTCL grants of approximately $6.8 million to nine of the state’s fifteen counties for the 2020 elections. The four Arizona counties carried by the Democratic presidential candidate that received CTCL funds — Maricopa ($2,995,921), Pima ($950,446), Coconino ($614,691), and Apache ($598,700) — received a combined $5.16 million, representing approximately

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