参加周二共和党参议院初选的亚利桑那州司法部长马克·布诺维奇(Mark Brnovich)表示，对2020年选举的审查发现，只有一张选票是以一名死亡选民的名义投的，驳斥了主要来自特朗普支持者的指控，即两年前有近300张这样的选票被退回。
布诺维奇办公室的发现显示在信中对州参议院主席卡伦·范来说，也是一名共和党人，标志着对网络忍者公司进行的由共和党州参议员推动的党派审查的又一次打击。
去年，前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)及其盟友在没有证据的情况下指控选民欺诈使他在2020年赢得了大峡谷州的胜利，随后引发了刑事调查。
“在花了数百个小时审查这些指控后，我们的调查人员能够确定名单上的282名选民中只有一人在选举时死亡。所有其他被列为死者的人都被发现是当前的选民，”Brnovich写道，提到了网络忍者报告的指控。
Brnovich补充说，一些说法“非常荒谬”，以至于“姓名和出生日期甚至与死者不符，其他的包括选举后的死亡日期。”
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“我们的特工调查了网络忍者报告死亡的所有人，许多人惊讶地得知他们据称已经死亡，”他写道。
“我们支持亚利桑那州参议院对马里科帕县选举进行审计的能力，并理解审查结果的重要性，”布诺维奇写道。“然而，从参议院审计和其他投诉中广泛死亡选民的指控……是不充分的，没有得到证实。”
Brnovich的信中没有说明是否有任何指控源于代表一名已故选民的一张选票。
受到民主党人和选举官员广泛抨击的网络忍者审查主要集中在亚利桑那州最大的县和凤凰城的所在地马里科帕县。尽管声称有282张选票，但该公司的报告仍然显示，现任总统乔·拜登比最初认为的多赢得了360张选票。
范在一份声明中说，她“感谢”布诺维奇的努力。
“他们要求我们做艰苦的事实调查工作，我们正在提供事实。总检察长调查的这一步对于恢复我们的选民在上次选举后表现出的信心至关重要。我们很感激在审计暴露了我们选举过程中的弱点后，加强了选民诚信措施。
这份报告是在共和党参议院初选中关于“选举诚信”的辩论中发表的，这场辩论将使布诺维奇与布莱克·马斯特斯和吉姆·拉蒙等人展开竞争。
马斯特斯和拉蒙质疑亚利桑那州2020年选举的结果，而布诺维奇为该州的投票进行了辩护，但对选举系统中的“严重漏洞”表示担忧。
Arizona's GOP attorney general refutes claims of dead 2020 voters
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who is running in Tuesday's GOP Senate primary, said a review of the 2020 election found that just one ballot was cast in a dead voter's name, refuting allegations, mostly from Trump supporters, that nearly 300 such ballots had been returned two years ago.
The finding from Brnovich's office, revealed in a letter to state Senate President Karen Fann, also a Republican, marks another knock on a partisan review conducted by the Cyber Ninjas firm and propelled by Republican state senators.
The criminal investigation was sparked last year after former President Donald Trump and his allies alleged without evidence that voter fraud cost him a victory in the Grand Canyon State in 2020.
"After spending hundreds of hours reviewing these allegations, our investigators were able to determine only one of the 282 voters on the list was deceased at the time of the election. All other persons listed as deceased were found to be current voters," Brnovich wrote, referencing the Cyber Ninjas report allegations.
Brnovich added that some of the claims "were so absurd" that the "names and birthdates didn't even match the deceased, and others included dates of death after the election."
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"Our agents investigated all individuals that Cyber Ninjas reported as dead, and many were surprised to learn they were allegedly deceased," he wrote.
"We supported the Arizona Senate's ability to conduct an audit of Maricopa County's elections and understand the importance of reviewing the results," Brnovich wrote. "However, allegations of widespread deceased voters from the Senate Audit and other complaints…are insufficient and not corroborated."
The letter from Brnovich did not say if there were any charges stemming from the one ballot cast on behalf of a deceased voter.
The Cyber Ninjas review, widely panned by Democrats and elections officials, focused on Maricopa County, Arizona's largest county and the home to Phoenix. Despite the claims of the 282 ballots, the firm's report still showed that now-President Joe Biden won the state by 360 more votes than originally believed.
Fann said in a statement that she is "thankful' to Brnovich's efforts.
"They asked us to do the hard work of fact finding, and we are delivering the facts. This step of the AG's investigation is critical to restoring the diminished confidence our constituents expressed following the last election. We're grateful for the increased voter integrity measures put in place after the audit revealed weaknesses in our election processes," she said.
The report comes as debates over "election integrity" in the GOP Senate primary, which will pit Brnovich against Blake Masters and Jim Lamon, among others.
Masters and Lamon have questioned the results of the 2020 election in Arizona, while Brnovich has defended the vote in the state but has expressed concern over "serious vulnerabilities" in the electoral system.
