The grassroots organization We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) presented a video review last week of election improprieties in the 2022 election, stating that it believes these improprieties contributed to Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes’ victory over Republican Abe Hamadeh by 280 votes.
Shelby Busch, who leads WPAA, and WPAA’s attorney Bryan Blehm, who represented Kari Lake in her election challenges, said they believe thousands of votes were not counted for Hamadeh, including 9,000 that have been destroyed.
Abe Hamadeh Evidence Cover-up and an Election Vacated in Cochise County. They prioritize a fatally flawed system over your vote. "What is the remedy if they were disenfranchised.......there is no remedy" -Cochise County Attorney Correa. pic.twitter.com/YIVFwMa2lX
— We the People AZ Alliance (@WethePeopleAZA1) June 5, 2025
Blehm said, “I think 2022 was, you know, sort of the way to cover up for 2020 because Kris Mayes is absolutely never going to investigate what happened in Arizona in 2020.” He said by the time the Department of Justice investigates, the evidence will all be gone.
The group discussed 9,000 provisional ballots that were destroyed from the 2022 election, which AZ Free News reported earlier in June. Since federal law only requires saving ballots for 22 months (state law requires six months), the ballots have all been destroyed.
Busch said there was “disenfranchisement” in the 2022 election due to many voters being told they could only vote provisional ballots, which were never counted.
The pair played a video clip of Carol Ayotte, GOP chair of Legislative District 27, speaking to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. She said 5,000 Republicans’ voter registrations were changed from Republican to Party Not Designated (PND). Many other voters found their voter registration switched to another county, unbeknownst to them.
Ayotte said it happened after they visited the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division, or its online site, Service Arizona, for a reason not related to their voter registration.
Busch said when the voters’ registrations were switched to PND, they were unable to vote in the Republican primary, including the Presidential Preference Primary.
