PHOENIX — An organization that bills itself as nonpartisan but has worked on Democratic issues prepared a 47-page report for Attorney General Kris Mayes on how to prosecute the “fake electors” ahead of the indictments her office obtained against them.
A document obtained by Capitol Media Services shows that in July 2023 States United Democracy Center provided not just a detailed timeline of the events leading up to 11 Arizona Republicans submitting a false statement to Congress that they were the true electors pledged to Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential race despite the contest being won by Joe Biden, but also a list of charges that the organization said could be brought against them and others involved in the scheme.
Richie Taylor, spokesman for Mayes, would not say whether that report was specifically prepared at her request.
But Dan Barr, Mayes’ chief deputy, had signed a separate letter of engagement with States United just two months earlier to have the organization advise the Attorney General’s Office on “legal strategies to secure the integrity and security of elections.”