state making that formal criminal referral to the ag s office and a very straightforward thing. we received these documents from these arizona residents, purporting to be official state documents using the official state seal, these were not real official documents, use of the state seal by anybody not authorized to use it is a crime in arizona. here s the material. please proceed. that formal referral was made on december 23, 2020, more than a year ago. since then, nothing. so there s two questions here. one of them is about the federal cops on the beat here, right? why did federal investigators at the national archives only open an investigation into one of the two fake slates of electors they received from arizona? sure, that one came in first but a few days later, when a second set of elector documents came in
a whistle blower anonymously provided a complaint to our office about this expenditure. when we did do a review we determined it was appropriate to open up an investigation exam on this particular transaction where gathering data now, but we my job is to restore peoples faith and government. i m not sure that s what s going on in otero county right now. we ve seen a number of these investigations, including a number of them that involved this conspiracy theorists company appears to the company that s going to be awarded this contract in the county, we ve seen this in a number of other states and we ve seen people all over the country and elected officials such as yourself and the states lament that these audits are unscientific, not keeping with u.s. practices, designed to essentially make people have doubts about the election and that they should not have doubts about. is that part of what is motivating this investigation, or are those concerns by the potential impact of an au
electors. i m not close enough to arizona politics to know about the likelihood of any resignation here. i m guessing that s not going to happen but if you re wondering why there is a need for a federal investigation, if you re wondering why the u.s. justice department now says they are investigating, well, this from the states might help explain why that is needed. in this case, no action for more than a year, even in the most clear-cut imaginable case where state law was definitely for sure no doubt about it broken. tt .
from arizona and a bunch of other states why wasn t a federal investigation launched into those as well, or was it? we are trying to find out and we will let you know as soon as we have figured it out. but also, in the situation in arizona, i mean again, they had two fake elector slates from two different sets of republicans in arizona, and this one with a state seal on it, it was kind of a special case. kind of an open and shut case. using state feel on your forged document state seal on your forged document is its own crime and here is the secretary of state s office saying hi attorney general, crime here, please prosecute. that was over a year ago. so far, nothing. what happened at this in the attorney general s office in arizona? why did this dead end there? let s turn to a local journalist in arizona to see what they think. writing this week for the arizona republican, anyone waiting breathlessly for
we ve got to make sure that there is not any waste, fraud or abuse. when we have elected officials who are abusing power potentially, we hold them accountable with these investigations and in our founding s. we ve had experience in otero county where the county commissioner was overreaching. we were doing an investigation and we found that there were inappropriate expenditures. that kind of commissioner had to give money back to the taxpayers in otero county. , and now we have the concern in the advanced county of the commissioner in otero county. and for me, i always have to look at the transaction that s best for the taxpayers. in this particular concern, we ve got to wonder whether this has to do with the personal agenda and that s going to be part of the question. what drove this transaction? was it appropriate, legal complying with the coats, regulations and procurement process? and if it was the best interest