“These subpoenas are unrealistic in their timeframes, an intrusion into the privacy of our voters, and want us to disregard the statutes that they’ve created,” he said.
Steve Gallardo, the board’s only Democratic member, was thrilled with the vote and praised those who testified at the hearing, where “any type of allegation of fraud or election tampering was debunked and knocked down.”
“I’m not interested in playing games. I’m not interested in this political theater. I’m not interested in trying to satisfy a small group of loud participants,” he said. “I want to be able to conduct an audit just to continue to prove faith in our election system. But we don’t do it in the middle of a political circus.”
Steve Chucri was the only board member who voted to give the machine to the Senate.
“I do not think it can be done in isolation,” he said of the plan to fight the subpoenas in Maricopa County Superior Court. “I’ve said that several times, and that we simply do what is before us today without coupling that with at least directing our team to start the beginnings of what an audit would look like, making sure that an independent, certified election auditor is available.”
