Election workers process ballots for the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara
President Donald Trump's ongoing war against his 2020 election loss continues as he has now subpoenaed the Arizona election documents.
It's the latest step the president has taken to search. Trump's Justice Department previously took possession of Fulton County, Georgia's election ballots after a Trump ally alleged there were hijinks in 2020. A judge then granted a subpoena allowing the FBI to take copies of the 2020 ballots. The FBI took all of the ballots.
Ongoing litigation around the 2020 election is one of the reasons Fulton County alleged it was improper for the FBI to take all of the ballots.
Politico reported that on Facebook, Arizona Senate President Warren Peterson wrote that he “received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County” last week. He said that the FBI now has all of the records.
It's unclear if they have copies of the ballots or the ballots themselves.
Trump went to court over 60 times over the election, but failed at every effort to fight ballots.