Warren Petersen and Karen Fann authorized an election “audit”, after several official recounts and state audit.  They hired a group called the Cyber Ninjas to conduct what became known as a “fraudit.”

• The Cyber Ninjas removed 2.1 million ballots from the safety and security of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office to a dank, unsecured warehouse in Phoenix for “inspection” by untrained, partisan players.
• Petersen allowed untrained partisan players to handle Maricopa County’s brand new, fully tested voting machines, costing taxpayers $2.8 million to replace the compromised voting equipment.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/mar/17/voting-mail-has-been-popular-arizona-decades-now-s/

ARIZONA CAN’T AFFORD WARREN PETERSEN’S EXTREME AGENDA!!

Senate President Warren Petersen and Republicans legislators have cost Arizona taxpayers millions!

$1.8 billion to dismantle public education by expanding ESA vouchers ($900M for 2023-24). Petersen’s extreme agenda has decimated the state budget, now facing a $1.3M shortfall, and has crippled public schools.  In doing so, he thumbed his nose at Arizona voters, who voted down ESA expansion in 2018.
https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/media/4193/download?inline&file=Universal_School_Vouchers_REPORT.pdf

https://www.sosaznetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Impacts-of-Universal-Vouchers-Report.pdf

$2.8 million to replace voting equipment compromised by the Cyber Ninja “fraudit” of the 2020 election, authorized by Warren Petersen.

• Arizona became the laughingstock of the nation. 
• The review itself cost taxpayers $150,000, supplemented by millions in private donations by dark money conspiracy theorists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Maricopa_County_presidential_ballot_audit
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/hold-cyber-ninjas-accountable

UNTOLD Millions for Petersen’s unfunded, unconstitutional ballot referral.

• If approved by voters, the Secure the Border Act (HCR2060) would make it a state crime to cross the border and would allow state and local officials to enforce the law, contrary to federal law.
• It will be tied up in court, at taxpayer expense.  ACLU calls it an “extreme and unconstitutional” measure that “invites racial profiling and unlawful policing.”
• It will potentially cost taxpayers hundreds of millions per year in court and incarceration costs, as well as boycotts.  A legislative analysis estimates the Department of Public Safety will be forced to set aside $3.8 million every year to comply with the proposed law and projects the total cost statewide could be $41 million. 
• Governor Katie Hobbs calls it a “job killer” that will “bust the state budget.”

https://azmirror.com/2024/05/09/gop-plan-to-let-voters-give-az-police-and-courts-power-to-enforce-immigration-laws-advances/ 
https://kjzz.org/content/1879969/gov-hobbs-says-republican-border-bill-will-bust-state-budget
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/philboas/2024/06/03/latino-protest-boycott-arizona-immigration-bill/73960213007/
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-election-ballot-measures-guide-19297728