PHOENIX — The deal Maricopa County worked out with the Arizona Senate over router access related to the audit of the 2020 election was a “business decision,” according to one supervisor.
Bill Gates said Monday the agreement helped alleviate the county’s concerns over its ability to function after Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said last month Maricopa County must comply with the Senate subpoena or lose millions in state funding.
The county would have lost about $700 million in yearly state funding under Brnovich’s ruling had it not reached the deal.
Under the agreement, a special master will take questions from the Senate’s election review contractors and provide them information they say they need to finish the review.
Maricopa County also agreed to drop a $2.8 million claim it filed with the Senate after election equipment it handed over to the auditors was decertified and needed to be replaced.
