Newly declassified FBI documents released Thursday detail a 2020 breach of Maricopa County’s voter registration system.
According to the files, a hacker used a vulnerability on the county recorder’s website to extract 633,000 voter records in the days leading up to the election. About 930 of those files contained sensitive, non-public information.
The suspect later confessed to federal agents and acknowledged destroying the data by wiping hard drives and deleting Google Cloud copies after realizing investigators were closing in.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation here is what happened next.
Nothing. Nothing happened next.
The FBI presented the full case, including the confession, to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, and two county prosecutors. All of them declined to bring charges.
"Today, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released intelligence community and FBI documents detailing an election cyber incident in which a self-described hacker extracted 633,000 voter registration files from a Maricopa County site on the eve of the 2020 election," chairman John Solomon wrote on X early this morning.
"The FBI expended significant resources to solve the case and even got the suspect to confess," he added. "But the Biden DOJ via the U.S. attorney in Phoenix and three state and local prosecutors all declined to prosecute. No accountability."
🚨New White House Declas this morning. Nothing crazy, BUT...
— CannCon (@canncon) August 6, 2026
Maricopa County Recorder's voter registration data was hacked in 2020 This appears to be the Elliot Kerwin hack from November 2020 that was investigated by the FBI and then, POOF, vanished.
We knew all that...
But… pic.twitter.com/38TrNy0Snn
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... we DIDNT KNOW that 633k voter files, including 930 that were "sensitive, nonpublic data" were taken.
And most importantly: The US Attorney's Office in Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General (a "Republican"), the Maricopa County District Attorney and the Pima County District attorney an DECLINED TO PROSECUTE despite having the evidence AND A CONFESSION.
"The FBI confirmed that voter records were illegally extracted from the site and identified a suspect who admitted the crime," a letter from the Bureau to the Task Force reads.
"The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the Maricopa County, Arizona Attorney’s Office, and the Pinal County, Arizona Attorney’s Office were presented with the findings of this investigation," it continues.
"All declined to prosecute this matter."
For years, the public only got scraps of information about the breach. These new files finally lay out just how complete the evidence was and how thoroughly it was ignored.
Jeff Clark, former Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division during that timeframe, was one of many who found the revelations nothing short of befuddling.
"Standing alone, the Maricopa County, Arizona hack was one of the largest compromises in U.S. history of confidential voter data. Yet the culprit was allowed to get off scot-free," he said. "Was the hacker told he was golden and skate? Is that why he maintained he acted alone?"
"That tends to happen when a target knows they’re not going to be prosecuted."
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) August 6, 2026
Here is the big reveal for today teased by John Solomon last night:
Not only did Iran hack the 2020 election.
Not only did China hack millions of voter files in 2020.
Not only did we learn Venezuela can use voting machines to flip votes, as the President… https://t.co/bLsFlGgBEf
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... announced in a rare White House evening address from the East Room.
*** 🔥🔥🔥 But today we learned through declassified documents that a hacker in Arizona purloined hundreds of thousands of voter files out of Maricopa County, Arizona, which just so happens to be one of the key 2020 battleground States that decided that election — the one that Fox News called Way Too Early for Biden.
Nothing was done to prosecute the American hacker at the federal or state level, which makes no sense.
Standing alone, the Maricopa County, Arizona hack was one of the largest compromises in U.S. history of confidential voter data. Yet the culprit was allowed to get off scot-free.
Was the hacker told he was golden and skate? Is that why he maintained he acted alone? That tends to happen when a target knows they’re not going to be prosecuted.
Perhaps worse, Chris Krebs, then head of CISA, knew about this Arizona hack and said nothing to the American people. Indeed, he told the American people a lie: that the 2020 election was the most secure in American history.
Let me know your level of disgust at these new revelations.
Finally, kudos to the Trump intelligence officials and to @jsolomonReports for getting the truth out, even 5.75 years out past the 2020 election. Better late than never.
The dam of the cover-up and pretend pristine 2020 election lies shattered on the valley floor.
The documents associated with this case can be downloaded and viewed here.
Arizona election officials have long pushed back on claims of widespread 2020 vulnerabilities.
After President Trump’s July primetime address on election security, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) called the disclosures “unimpressive” and “a rehash of the same grievance.”
Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican, has similarly stressed that the county’s use of auditable paper ballots would reveal any attempt to alter vote totals.
Does anyone really believe this level of corruption has ceased in Arizona?
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) August 6, 2026
It hasn’t. It’s even worse today. https://t.co/m2xch2CUvH
The new documents may not change the fundamental distinction Arizona officials have drawn between voter-registration data and the systems that actually cast and count ballots.
What they do make clear is that when a significant breach of confidential voter information happened, multiple layers of authority chose not to act. It was a real-world test case. And nearly six years later, those decisions remain unexplained.
Rather than pursue the case, several Arizona officials spent years telling the public that 2020 was historically secure.
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D), then the Arizona Secretary of State, said the state had conducted “easily the smoothest” and “most secure election in recent history” as she certified the results.
Republican members of the county's Board of Supervisors told Congress that the election in Maricopa County was “the most secure, verified election in our history."
Perhaps not.
Solomon writes that the latest information "highlights the threat President Trump raised ... that U.S. intelligence has believed since January 2020 that voter registration data is not well protected."
The documents now show that such data can be hacked, stolen, and ignored with zero accountability.
Editor's Note: The Democrats are doing everything in their power to undermine the integrity of our elections.
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