Phoenix, Arizona — The Maricopa County Record Keeper, along with the county board of supervisors, poignant letter Arizona Attorney General Mark Brunovich, sent Wednesday, accused him of playing politics, making assumptions and ignoring evidence in his interim report on criminal investigations into the 2020 election.

“When the integrity of an election is questioned, we have a joint responsibility to thoroughly and honestly investigate and report our conclusions,” the supervisor wrote in a letter to Brnovic. You are not, the 2020 election was fair, the results were indisputable, and instead of being truthful about what your office learned about the election, you omitted relevant information. , misrepresented the facts and cited distorted data to sow doubts about the election conduct in Maricopa County.”

Brnovich’s investigation comes after the notorious Cyber ​​Ninjas audit of the 2020 general election in Maricopa County was ordered by the state Senate. That investigation confirmed that current President Joe Biden had won Maricopa County, but Cyber ​​Ninja still claimed that there were various irregularities in the election process.

In response to Maricopa County’s letter and accompanying Wednesday morning press conference, Brnović posted a response video on Twitter.

“We are already living in very divisive times, and rather than cast variance or cast stones, we will do our part so that everyone, whoever they may be, can have confidence in the electoral process. We must work together to address the issue.

Instead of attacking him, Mr. Brnovic said the Maricopa County supervisor said the issues he raised in his report, such as the 200,000 ballots not being transported in a proper administrative process, would reappear in the next election. I added that we should work to prevent it from happening.

However, in the letter, the regulator noted that it did not seek clarification on some of the issues the prosecutor general had asked, instead appearing to be making assumptions.

Brnovic said in his interim report that the number of ballots rejected or refused to be signed for missing signatures is suspiciously low, especially when compared to past elections in Maricopa County. Brnovic said there may be a valid explanation, but the county indicated it was less enthusiastic in signature reviews in 2020 than in years past.

The county countered that there are many reasons why fewer ballots are being rejected in 2020. Also in 2020, he hired over 40 temporary workers to process ballots. Basically, to contact the person who voted by mail to verify that the ballot envelope has a valid signature that matches the state signature on file for that voter.

“Failure to question investigators about these developments (or, if they did, to ignore their answers), and failure to thoroughly investigate these developments before writing the ‘Interim Report’. and that they chose to jump to the next page instead.The insinuation that the county acted illegally is grossly inadequate and irresponsible to the Attorney General, much less to the attorneys,” the supervisor wrote.

The regulator said Brnovic’s interim report referred to individual voter misconduct uncovered through investigations, but said the report itself did not mention specific cases. A link included in the report takes you to a list of his 34 voter fraud cases in Arizona since 2010. Many of these incidents did not occur in Maricopa County and were not related to the 2020 election.

The regulator also disputed some of Brunovich’s comments during an April 7 interview with Steve Bannon on the former Trump adviser’s podcast.

During an interview, Brunovich told Bannon that Maricopa County used artificial intelligence to verify signatures on ballots in 2020, but the county said Brunovich investigators used AI to verify signatures in 2020. pointed out that it had been repeatedly said that the

“In short, your office knew every signature was verified by a human,” the supervisor wrote. “You are publicly stating the opposite. I repeat.”

Brunovich is seeking Trump’s endorsement for running for one of the U.S. Senate seats in Arizona in a race against Democratic Senator Mark Kelly.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.