Watch: Arizona Official Loses It After Maricopa County Admits They Deleted Election Data Before the Arizona Audit

A U.S. House Committee for Oversight and Reform hearing on the Arizona election review exploded into fireworks after a Maricopa County election official admitted that the county officials effectively deleted election data from materials turned over to auditors after receiving a legal subpoena from the Arizona Senate.

Maricopa County Supervisors Jack Sellers and Bill Gates, David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, Gowri Ramachandran of the Brennan Center for Justice and Arizona Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett appeared before the committee.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) cross-examined Maricopa County Vice Chairman Bill Gates on the deletion of data in the materials turned over to the Arizona auditors.

“Is it standard practice to delete files off a server after an election, Mr. Bennett?” Biggs asked.

"I hope not,” Bennett responded.

“So, Mr. Gates, will you agree with that?” Biggs asked

“I would say that is it appropriate to maintain files and that’s exactly what we did,” Gates replied. “We deleted, the deleted files had been discussed, they were archived.”

“So, so you admit that you guys did delete, Maricop County did delete files off the server after the election?” Biggs pressed.

"That were – that are archived,” Gates responded.

“Yeah, and so when you released these servers and this information to the auditors to begin with, they did not have access to those archived files, at first, is that fair to say?” Biggs continued.

“They did not subpoena those,” Gates replied. “That’s correct.”

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