Arizona Election Audit Causes Republican Rift

Skepticism plagues many Arizona voters and some have already made up their minds, regardless of whatever the audit report says.

Imminent release of a partisan audit into the 2020 election results in Arizona – authorized in March by the GOP state Senate – has pitted elected Republicans against each other. Stephen Richter was elected in 2020 to help oversee elections in Maricopa County – the state's largest. "They started to pursue this in what I believe to be an unprofessional manner that will only erode confidence in our elections," Richter said.