Arizona’s bogus election review continues to have far-reaching, democracy-undermining effects in Texas, Wisconsin, and elsewhere.

The Assembly has failed to release documents related to its baseless and partisan investigation of the 2020 election, including records from hired contractors.

“As we’ve seen in Arizona, these phony audits have nothing to do with election security and are intended to perpetuate false claims of voter fraud to justify new restrictions on voting,” said American Oversight's executive director.

In September, the Texas secretary of state’s office announced a “full forensic audit” of the 2020 election — just hours after former President Donald Trump publicly asked Gov. Greg Abbott to do so. Texas joins the growing number of states launching baseless election investigations that undermine trust in democracy.

The records reveal an EAC commissioner’s early support for the “audit,” and provide yet more evidence of the partisan review’s partisanship and anti-democratic origins.

Order from the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, in American Oversight's ongoing lawsuit regarding the release of public records related to Georgia elections. American Oversight is seeking to depose Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger regarding his involvement in his office's pattern of stonewalling open records requests. The court denied Raffensperger's request to limit the scope of discovery in the case, but said that it would not rule on whether American Oversight may depose Raffensperger until other depositions have been completed.

As we wrote last week, it did not matter that the sham “audit” of votes cast in Maricopa County repeated what had already been confirmed by actual independent audits — that Joe Biden defeated Trump. The election review’s primary outcome was in keeping conspiracy theories and lies about voter fraud alive for the multiple months it dragged on.

More documents were released last week by the Arizona Senate in response to American Oversight’s litigation for records from the problematic election “audit.”

Records from the Board of Supervisors of Yavapai County, Ariz., in response to American Oversight's request for communications regarding reported in-person canvassing of voters.

From the beginning, the “audit” was a sham process designed to provide a pretext for restricting voter access.