Efforts to avoid accountability have gone hand in hand with today’s threats to democracy.

In a new court filing, Arizona “audit” contractor Cyber Ninjas tried to walk back its previous estimate of the number of records in its possession related to the Arizona Senate’s partisan review of the 2020 election.

When it comes to actions and false claims that weaken democracy and undermine faith in elections, there is no safe middle ground.

The brief, filed Wednesday, supports an earlier motion American Oversight filed asking the court to find Vos and others in contempt for failing to release certain public records related to the Assembly’s election inquiry.

This week, the release of more than 700 pages of public records from the Wisconsin election investigation revealed that the probe has done little actual investigating.

Further review of records obtained by American Oversight in our investigation of the “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election reveal a letter from a state senator to then-Vice President Pence asking that he not certify Biden’s victory.

The post-election scramble to dig up any evidence of significant voter fraud has shown us that schemes don’t need to be legally possible, or even ground in reality, to be dangerous.