The effort to recruit people to count ballots for the ongoing audit of Maricopa County’s presidential election results appears targeted in part at traditionally conservative groups — and some of the recruiters themselves appear to have far-right political leanings.
One recruiter is a retired police officer who works as an investigator for an extremist right-wing group that warns of “the growing threat of the Marxist and the Islamic movement in America.”
Another person involved in recruitment used her brief stint as the county Republican Party chairwoman to try to “get Trump back in office” by protesting the results of one of the county’s prior audits.
Their efforts targetretired police officers, veterans and Republican groups, according to three recruiting pitches obtained by The Arizona Republic.
The politically charged messaging of one recruiting email left a group of retired law enforcement officers defending itself against claims of partisanship after some members complained.