Avoiding oversight or being fiscally conservative given the results of past audits & recounts ?
"Did Arizona's Republican lawmakers waste $530,000 on an election fraud unit?
The budget pushed through the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature in 2019 and signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in June of that year gave Republican state Attorney General Mark Brnovich $530,000 to create an election fraud unit.
AG's office investigated multiple claims. He came out strongly against the notion that there was election fraud in Arizona.
He said in part, “In Arizona, there was a prediction that the (Republican-controlled) Legislature would flip. It didn’t. There were some congressional districts that supposedly leaned Democrat. They didn’t flip. The county recorder here who oversees elections went from Democrat to Republican. The county attorney remained Republican. That’s the reality. There is no evidence, there are no facts that would lead anyone to believe that the election results will change.”
He added that the same was true of Joe Biden’s win in the presidential race."
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2021/01/06/arizona-election-fraud-unit-waste-money/6560144002/
"Promoter of false election fraud claims is raising money for Arizona Senate GOP’s election audit. Is that even legal?
Spokesman Ken Bennett says Senate needs private donations because costs will top the $150,000 being paid to election fraud promoter who’s leading audit.
The Arizona Senate’s GOP leadership has already agreed to pay $150,000 in taxpayer money to the lead auditor, a Florida-based company called Cyber Ninjas, whose owner has also promoted false conspiracy theories about the election.
But that won’t be enough money to get the job done, according to Ken Bennett, a former Republican secretary of state who is the Senate’s audit spokesman.
“I don't think it’s going to be doable for that amount,” Bennett said on this weekend’s “Sunday Square Off.”
According to Bennett, Cyber Ninjas has “grants and other sources of revenue from people all over the country who want to see this audit done that will cover those costs.”
“We’re probably going to have a mechanism for people to donate to help defray those costs. Maybe it won’t end up costing the Senate one dime, but it won’t be more than 150.”
Bennett said it would be legal for the Senate to accept donated money. But it remains unclear how the donations will be handled - given directly to the Senate, to Cyber Ninjas or another recipient.
Mike Philipsen, spokesman for Senate President Karen Fann, said nothing had been decided regarding accepting donations for the audit.
He said state statute provided a vehicle to accept and spend donations in the Legislature’s name.
A bill signed into law late last week by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey raises new questions about accepting donations for election-related work. The bill bans the use of private funding for elections. "
https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/sunday-square-off/promoter-of-false-election-fraud-claims-is-raising-money-for-arizona-senate-gops-election-audit-is-that-even-legal/75-a00e4e89-20d8-4588-b91d-50a32abbe9e8
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