NEW: Last night, the AZ Senate released thousands of pages of records related to its partisan election “audit.”
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The documents include info about audit payments as well as emails and text messages that audit officials and legislators exchanged with outside parties.
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The documents contain text messages exchanged between Reince Priebus and “audit” spokesman Randy Pullen as far back as December, before Pullen officially joined. “I am assisting on the election audit in AZ,” Pullen texted on March 2. “Any suggestions on election audit firms?”
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On March 7, Pullen wrote, “I am drafting up an audit plan. I have a couple examples. Did you put one together for Wisconsin? ... Could you share?” “Let me make a call this am and get back to u,” Priebus responded the next day.
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In Wisconsin, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has initiated a partisan election investigation as well, and hired Michael Gableman, a former state Supreme Court justice, to lead it.
Gableman has visited the Arizona “audit,” and the records show contacts between officials and Gableman.
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In August, Pullen sent a text message to a “Justice Michael” with the initials J.G., in which Pullen outlined “Three big political points.”
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There are also texts between Pullen and Jeff DeWit, a former Trump appointee and Arizona treasurer, that suggest DeWit was relaying messages to and from former President Trump himself.
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In late April, DeWit asked Pullen whether a group raising money for the audit was OK to donate to, adding, “Trump asking.” He also arranged for $175,000 to be sent to the Guardian Defense Fund, of which Pullen was the treasurer.
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Our investigation has previously provided new information about the involvement of and deference to election conspiracists during the early days of the “audit.” These new records add to those findings.
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According to an accompanying privilege log, (which lists records that have been withheld because of legislative and other privileges), Pullen and Senate Liaison Ken Bennett exchanged multiple emails with conspiracy theorist Ayyadurai.
An email from Pullen also appears to include a Aug. 3 signed contract with Ayyadurai.
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Last month, Priebus reportedly said during an interview that the Wisconsin investigation would be bringing in “Dr. Shiva.”
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Additionally, according to the privilege log, Senate President Karen Fann exchanged multiple texts regarding the “audit” with Rep. Paul Gosar in the spring.
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There’s a lot more in the records, and our team is still reviewing the thousands of pages. You can read more about what we’ve found so far here:
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Because of the size of the document production, we’re still working on processing and publishing the records. We’ll update as soon as they’re ready — check here and our website for updates.
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