The report provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the election denial movement led several states to abandon the bipartisan Electronic Registration Information Center — and what it means for voting rights and U.S. democracy.
Wednesday, nonpartisan watchdog group American Oversight filed a complaint in the Arizona Superior Court against Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and Pinal County, alleging Lamb and the County have failed to respond to multiple public records requests in violation of state law.
American Oversight first obtained and published the fake electoral certificates, and has investigated the post-election activities of several of those indicted in the Arizona attorney general’s case.
Conservative activists and Trump allies are pitching their own severely flawed alternatives to ERIC, presenting alarming implications for voting rights ahead of the 2024 election.
This week, two officials from Cochise County, Ariz., were indicted by a state grand jury after having refused to meet the legal deadline for certifying the state’s 2022 midterm election results.
The messages are another piece of evidence of how many of the same activists worked together across state lines to undermine trust in 2020 election results.
The records contain text messages exchanged by Logan and Trump-allied lawyer Christina Bobb in 2021 and include behind-the-scenes discussions about the discredited “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election.
American Oversight entered a settlement agreement having succeeded in bringing much-needed transparency to the “audit,” including the release of tens of thousands of pages of records as a result of the litigation.