Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes, who replaced Mark Brnovich in office last month, released documents showing that two employees disagreed with Brnovich on the credibility of some of the complaints the office received about voter disenfranchisement. Mayes issued a press release on Wednesday based on the opinions of two employees, Assistant Chief Special Agent Keith Thomas of the Criminal Division and Attorney General (AGO) Chief Special Agent Reginald “Reggie” Grigsby.
Grigsby made waves when he wrote a letter to the FBI last October suggesting the agency investigate True the Vote after the organization attempted to inform the AGO’s Criminal Division about ballot harvesting featured in the film 2,000 Mules.
Mayes criticized Brnovich for not following Grigsby’s opinion in an internal memo that Grigsby authored in September. Mayes quoted Grigsby’s memo, “In each instance and in each matter, the aforementioned parties did not provide any evidence to support their allegations. The information that was provided was speculative in many instances and when investigated by our agents and support staff, was found to be inaccurate.”
Jennifer Wright, the AGO’s Election Integrity Unit civil attorney under Brnovich, disagreed with Grigsby’s conclusion, saying the office could not obtain the evidence to conduct a full investigation due to stonewalling by Maricopa County officials. “Regardless, the Sept ‘22 criminal report appears to have a lot of places with ‘undetermined’ outcomes due to lack of ability to review records under the control of ‘election officials,’ she tweeted on Wednesday. “Doesn’t seem very cooperative to me.”
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