Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier baseless allegations that election officials eliminated evidence.
The claim of deleted databases was amplified by former President Donald Trump and his supporters, who believe conspiracy theories about election irregularities. On Tuesday, a data expert working on the audit team told senators all the data was accounted for. The statement came after Maricopa County officials issued a scathing letter saying auditors couldn’t find the data because they didn’t know where to look for it. The GOP-controlled Board of Supervisors has called the audit a “sham” and the auditors incompetent.
