Judge won't halt audit of Maricopa County's election technology

What happened? A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Thursday rejected Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap’s request to halt an audit of the county’s voter registration system and election technology.

Judge Scott Blaney wrote that he was initially concerned voters’ personal information would be at risk, but was “credibly informed” that the county and vendor had a comprehensive nondisclosure agreement and the vendor’s personnel had undergone background checks. Blaney also found “that the Recorder has not established that the Board’s actions with regard to the assessment violate any Arizona statute.”

What’s the dispute? The emergency hearing over the audit of the voter registration system on Monday was one part of a larger legal fight between Heap and the county Board of Supervisors over how election duties and authority should be divided between them.

After Heap, a Republican, took office in January, he rejected an earlier agreement that governed how elections would be run, saying his predecessor, also a Republican, and the previous iteration of the Republican-controlled five-member board had taken away duties assigned to him under law.


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