Opinion: Finally, Arizona has an attorney general who will investigate the state’s fake electors. It’s a no-brainer that those who tried to steal our vote should pay a penalty. A slate of “fake electors” casts votes for Donald Trump in 2020.
Laurie Roberts
Arizona Republic
The heat is on in Arizona and no one should be feeling it more than our fair state’s famed fake electors.
The Washington Post’s Yvonne Wingett Sanchez on Thursday reported that Attorney General Kris Mayes has escalated an investigation into those fine patriots who tried to set aside democracy and steal Arizona’s vote in the 2020 election.
People like state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern. Like former state Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and Tyler Bowyer, a top executive with Turning Point USA who also sits on the Republican National Committee.
Citing two unnamed sources, Wingett Sanchez reported that Mayes assigned a team of prosecutors to the case in May.
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Good for her.
Mayes is taking fake electors seriously
The Democratic attorney general vowed during last year’s campaign to investigate the Republicans who signed documents claiming to be the state’s electors, authorized by voters to cast Arizona’s 11 electoral votes for Donald Trump — never mind that Joe Biden actually won the state.
Mayes in February hinted that a review had begun though it’s been unclear, until now, whether any serious investigation was under way.
Dan Barr, Mayes’s chief deputy, told the Post it’s still early days, with the probe in the “fact-gathering” phase. He declined to say whether subpoenas have been issued or laws might have been broken.
But at least the AG’s office is taking the outrage of what happened here seriously.
