Debunked claims of widespread voter fraud are still holding strong.

Had these rules existed in 2021, the public would not have learned the whole truth about the Arizona Senate’s partisan “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results.

New rules adopted by the Arizona legislature exempt lawmakers from the state’s public records law — and the kind of scrutiny that allowed American Oversight to expose lawmakers’ post-election anti-democratic efforts.

Documents recently released in response to American Oversight’s litigation provide new details about Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan’s contacts with prominent election deniers.

Several of the individuals who signed their names to “alternate” electoral slates have been active in efforts to cast doubt on election integrity, including sham election reviews that have been investigated by American Oversight.

The refusal by officials in Cochise County in Arizona to certify their midterm results is a reminder of the toxic staying power of election denial.

Former CEO Doug Logan’s communications reveal contact with numerous election deniers about potential future audits as well as funding issues.

In the two years since the 2020 election, Trump-allied conspiracy theorists and voter-fraud alarmists across the country have led efforts to sow distrust in U.S. elections, pushing government officials to embrace false claims of widespread fraud, coordinating with other election deniers, and encouraging a parade of sham election audits and partisan investigations.

Records of communications between Cyber Ninjas employees and several conspiracy theorists provide yet more evidence of the influence that prominent election deniers exercised in the partisan “audit” of votes cast in Maricopa County, Arizona.