Comment Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) told state Senate President Karen Fann (R) in a letter Monday that his office has closed a criminal investigation into allegations of widespread cases of dead voters in the 2020 election. Brnovich and his office had investigated several allegations of dead voters during the election, including some that were turned over to state prosecutors last September after Florida-based Cyber ​​Ninjas completed its review of 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County. Phan and members of the GOP-controlled Senate began the ballot review after President Donald Trump narrowly lost the 2020 election. Brnovich’s office spent months investigating claims that 282 people who were dead before Oct. 5, 2020, voted in the Nov. 3 general election, his letter said. Only one died, he wrote. “After spending hundreds of hours reviewing these allegations, our investigators were able to determine that only one of the 282 people on the list had died at the time of the election,” he wrote. The others were alive and determined to be current voters. “Our agents investigated all of the individuals reported dead by Cyber ​​Ninja and many were surprised to learn that they had reportedly died,” he wrote. Representatives for Cyber ​​Ninjas and Fann did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Brnovich wrote that his election integrity unit also received reports of hundreds more dead voters from other sources. A separate report submitted to the attorney general’s office did not distinguish between dead voters and dead registrants. “Once again, these allegations were thoroughly investigated and resulted in only a few possible cases,” the letter said. “Some were so absurd that the names and dates of birth did not even match the deceased, while others included dates of death after the election.” Although he supported the state Senate’s authority to conduct the ballot review, allegations of “widespread dead voters by Senate Audit and other complaints … are insufficient and unsubstantiated.” Brnovich’s letter comes a day before the Arizona primary where he is vying for the Republican nomination for the US Senate. Trump, who did not endorse him, faulted him for not doing enough to address his baseless allegations of widespread fraud that he claims led to his loss. Brnovich served as a witness in the certification of the 2020 election results and later blamed Trump’s loss on unpopularity. Brnovich’s GOP opponents have accused him of delaying his investigation in an effort to curry favor with Trump supporters. Brnovich argued that it would take as long as his office needed to investigate.