AZ Secretary Fontes on 2020 Maricopa County election audit
March 10
State Senate President Warren Petersen “tweeted” that he complied with an FBI subpoena to turn over records related to the 2020 audit of the Maricopa County election results.
President Trump is 100% correct.
— Warren Petersen (@votewarren) March 9, 2026
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. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news.@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/C2T202VgZP
Maricopa County was a focus of Trump and his allies after his 2020 loss, and CNN reported at the time that White House officials attempted to call a senior county official as part of their pressure campaign.
In the wake of the 2020 election and Trump’s repeated claims of fraud, Arizona Senate Republicans conducted a months-long, partisan review of the 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County. The Senate released its full report once it was finished. Republicans hired a company called Cyber Ninjas, which had no experience auditing election results, to conduct the review. The company shuttered in 2022.
Maricopa County officials issued a 93-page rebuttal to the review, saying that the only error the audit correctly identified was that 50 ballots had mistakenly been double-counted, not enough to shift Trump’s loss. Former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes was in charge of overseeing results of this election.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes joined “Arizona Horizon” to discuss more about the recent 2020 Maricopa County election audit.
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