Arizona Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich asks for criminal probe of Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs for taking down an online-signature-gathering portal to update it.
PHOENIX — The attorney general is asking Cochise County's prosecutor to launch a criminal probe into whether Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is breaking the law.
Now Brnovich wants Cochise County Attorney Brian McIntyre, a fellow Republican, to see if any laws were broken. He told McIntyre in a letter Tuesday that he gets to operate"independently of the attorney general's office in determining what actions are appropriate to resolve this matter.'' "The attorney general's continued attacks on election officials across the state for doing our jobs is ridiculous,'' she said.
Conner said it's also unrelated to the fact that Brnovich entered into a "diversion agreement'' with the State Bar of Arizona to settle complaints, including one by Hobbs, that it was unethical for him to represent her office but then take contrary legal positions. Hobbs said that required her to take the system offline to account for those new districts. The voter registration system — which determines if signers live within the districts of those they are supporting — cannot accommodate more than one set of maps. That means the system is not available for those running for Congress or the Legislature; it remains accessible for candidates seeking statewide office who are unaffected by redistricting.
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