The federal government's post-2020 election reckoning has arrived in Arizona.Warren Petersen, the Arizona Senate President, confirmed Monday that federal investigators came knocking — and he answered.
"Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate's 2020 audit of Maricopa County," Petersenwroteon X."The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news."
The records in question trace back to the infamous Cyber Ninjas audit, the Republican-commissioned hand-count of Maricopa County ballots that election experts widely dismissed as partisan theater.Many mainstream media outlets reported that the audit vindicated Joe Biden, when in fact, theauditfound that there were “sufficient discrepancies among the different systems that, in conjunction with some of our findings, suggest that the delta between the Presidential candidates is very close to the potential margin of error for the election.” There were 57,734 impacted ballot—which was larger than Biden’s margin of victory in the state, which was just under 10,500.
The Arizona subpoena marks the second known federal probe into 2020 election administration, following the FBI's January raid on a Fulton County, Georgia, election hub, where agents carted off truckloads of voting documentation.
Multiple U.S. officialstoldFox News that the DOJ examined Arizona election data spanning both 2020 and 2024. The White House redirected press inquiries to the FBI, which declined to comment.
While President Donald Trump expressed enthusiasm for the news in a post on Truth Social, Democrats are less than thrilled.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, disputed the investigation's legitimacy.
"What the Trump administration appears to be pursuing now is not a legitimate law enforcement inquiry," she claimed.
"It is the weaponization of federal law enforcement in service of crackpots and lies."
The Arizona development lands amid escalating tension over election security heading into the 2026 midterms.
Source: ZeroHedge News
