Pinal County Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh filed a complaint with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office asking for an investigation into possible election fraud in Pinal County’s primary election. He examined the ballot counting and said he believed six of the local races were artificially manipulated, and he also heard from a friend that a county elections IT employee confessed to taking hush money regarding the cheating.
Cavanaugh ran for Pinal County Sheriff and became suspicious after he lost in the primary. Looking into things, he said in a 19-page report he issued about the problems, “A recording exists of a discussion about hush-money payments being made to an employee inside elections and we have turned that over to outside law enforcement.”
Cavanaugh provided The Arizona Sun Times with a copy of the recording he made and said that the FBI is investigating.
Cavanaugh said in his report, “In late June or early July, a candidate for office of Assessor named December Cox met with me, Supervisor Cavanaugh. Cox came to my home because what he had to say couldn’t be said over the telephone. Cox reported to me he had met an employee from inside the Elections Office who said he was being paid ‘hush money’ and ‘knew it wasn’t right.’” Cox lost his race for county assessor by 42 points to incumbent Douglas Wolf.
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