By: Carly Roman
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/carly-roman
An election official from Arizona is calling former President Donald Trump's claims about the audit of Maricopa County's 2020 presidential election results "unhinged."
Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder and a registered Republican, called Trump's assertions that the county's entire voter database was deleted "readily falsifiable."
>>"Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now," he tweeted Saturday. "We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country."
Earlier on Saturday, Trump took to his new communicative platform to allege the entire database had been erased.
>>"The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!" Trump wrote in a post, calling such action "illegal."
The former president also called on the state’s attorney general to get involved in overseeing the proceedings.
>>"Mark Brnovich, the Attorney General of Arizona, will now be forced to look into this unbelievable Election crime. Many Radical Left Democrats and weak Republicans are very worried about the fact that this has been exposed," he said.
Trump is not the first public figure to claim or share claims that a Maricopa County election database has been deleted. Earlier this week, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, who authorized the legislative body's audit of Maricopa County's voting equipment, wrote an open letter about "serious issues" that she had with the audit process, including a claim that the database was deleted.
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, also a Republican, rejected Fann's allegations as "false and ill-informed" and demanded "an immediate retraction of any public statements made to the news media and spread via Twitter."
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