Arizona’s Senate is done messing around with the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. On Thursday the Senate updated the state’s law granting them the ability to subpoena election records like ballots and tabulating equipment and ignore any laws to the contrary.
Arizona’s Senate has been blocked, dodged, sued, and delayed by the state’s most populous county, Maricopa County. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is just not going to provide the Senate what the Senate wants and the Senate is apparently tired of it.On Thursday the Arizona Senate said enough.
The Arizona Senate passed a bill Thursday that would grant the Arizona legislature the authority to subpoena election records like ballots and tabulating equipment, and ignore any laws to the contrary.
The Senate passed Senate Bill 1408 on its third reading in the state’s upper chamber along a 16–14 party-line vote, with Republicans voting for and Democrats voting against.
The bill amends a portion of the Arizona statutes such that county election equipment, systems and records, and other information that is under the control of county personnel “may not be deemed privileged information, confidential information, or other information protected from disclosure.” It also subjects such records to a subpoena and stipulates that they “must be produced” and the legislature’s authority to conduct related probes “may not be infringed by any other law.”
The rule change is to be retroactive as of Dec. 31, 2019, meaning it would apply to records around the November election.

BIG UPDATE: Tired of Messing With the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, the Arizona Senate Passes Bill Granting Them Authority to Subpoena Records
Arizona’s Senate is done messing around with the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. On Thursday the Senate updated the state’s law granting them the ability to subpoena election records like ballots and tabulating equipment and ignore any laws to the contrary. Arizona’s Senate has been...
