Jen Fifield

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart and I found. propublica.org/article/save-v…

UPDATE: The Arizona Senate has released the grand jury subpoena for the records related to the partisan audit of Maricopa County's 2020 election. Link to full record: documentcloud.org/documents/2789…

"So, again, I need a response from you,” the lawyer says in the recording obtained by @audreydutton. “You may have seen in the news that we have sued six states earlier this week..."

Super interesting story out of Idaho: As Trump Demands Voter Data, This Fiercely Independent Red State Says No propublica.org/article/idaho-… by @audreydutton @JenAFifield

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego to Sen. Mullin about HSI Arizona’s probe of the 2020 election: “ I really urge you just to end the investigation.” ms.now/ms-now/watch/s…

The Ninth Circuit rejected claims Friday that Arizona violated the National Voter Registration Act, finding arguments about untidy voter rolls enabling fraud too speculative to carry weight. @JournalistJoeAZ courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-…

Along with requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, the bill would require states to use a federal tool to find & remove noncitizens on their voter rolls. That tool, @zachdespart & I found, often inaccurately marks citizens as noncitizens: propublica.org/article/save-v…

WATCH LIVE: Senate begins consideration of SAVE America Act pbs.org/newshour/polit…

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Swoboda said that Heap has “no business canceling anybody,” reiterating that she did not believe he was following proper procedures. “They’re going to sue the shit out of him,” she said.

"He’s also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose, who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming hacked voting machines for Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election."

EXCLUSIVE: Top Department of Homeland Security official David Harvilicz has repeatedly questioned the validity of Democratic victories at the ballot box and pushed for Republicans to overhaul electoral systems to their advantage. propublica.org/article/david-…

@ClueHeywood your best tweet in a long time

two sausage mcmuffins with egg. Or is it two sausages mcmuffin like ‘attorneys general? please just pull forward sir

5/ A link to the FBI property receipt is in the update at the top of this story: propublica.org/article/marico…

The list includes around 30 hard drives, eight servers and three video storage systems, which together can hold more than 200 terabytes of data. (Just 1 terabyte of storage can typically hold more than 250,000 photos, or 500 hours of video.)

.@ProPublica has exclusively obtained the FBI property receipt detailing what an agent collected from the Arizona Senate under the federal grand jury subpoena we wrote about yesterday. 🧵

Full story: Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say propublica.org/article/marico…

In this story: Link to a copy of the 2021 subpoena that launched the AZ partisan audit, listing everything the Senate Republican leaders demanded Maricopa County provide about its 2020 election. It's still unclear what the new federal grand jury subpoena requested.

Sec. Fontes told me he doesn't believe any of the 2020 election material the Senate was storing would be accepted by evidence in a court. “You can easily poke holes in any of this stuff,” Fontes said.