Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers sent letters last week to President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, requesting a formal review of Arizona’s elections practices and systems, including foreign-made components used in tabulating machines.
This comes after the last three elections in Arizona, where questions still surround the integrity of the results. The Gateway Pundit reported extensively on the issues in 2020, 2022, and 2024, especially surrounding mail-in ballots that lacked chain of custody documentation and signature verification.
Notably, when Kari Lake was running for governor in 2022, 60% of the voting machines failed on election day after the machines were reprogrammed in the days leading up to the election. Additionally, hundreds of thousands of ballots were mishandled and injected into the final count, and potenitally hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballot signatures did not match those of the voter.
In 2024, 2024 Kari Lake supposedly lost to Soros-backed and cartel-tied Ruben Gallego by 80,000 votes, but Trump-aligned and Kari Lake-backed Republican candidates dominated across Arizona in every statewide race except for the Senate.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, it was later discovered that Runbeck Election Services, a shady private entity that provides ballot printing and mail-in ballot services in 31 states and 54% of the nation’s voters, allegedly commingled voted ballots with blank ballots in 2024, drawing further scrutiny to the election results.
The letter to President Trump cites his Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections Executive Order.
The order mandates voter ID and documentary proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, directs audits and improvements of the security of voting machines, and orders the DOJ to enforce the law against states that count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. It also prioritizes the enforcement of laws that prevent foreign money from influencing elections and prohibit federally funded organizations from lobbying or supporting candidates.
The order also includes a provision that “the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the DOGE Administrator, shall review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities as required by 52 U.S.C. 20507, alongside Federal immigration databases and State records requested, including through subpoena where necessary and authorized by law, for consistency with Federal requirements.”
Senator Rogers cites “issues with foreign-sourced election equipment, unverified voter registration, vote tabulation based on encoded data, and widespread disregard for Election Day law,” including the following:
- Encoded vote tabulation: Voting machines currently use ballot scanned images, digital markings, and other encoded vote data to tabulate votes rather than counting the voter-verifiable, human-readable text. This violates the intent of your order, which calls for the tabulation of votes based on what the voter can see— not what a machine interprets.
- Misuse of the term “paper ballot”: Arizona officials continue to claim compliance by using ADA touchscreen-printed machine ballots as “paper ballots,” despite the fact they are not hand-marked and are encoded with digital vote instructions not visible to the voter.
- Foreign components in election systems: Vendors operating in Arizona have acknowledged the use of Chinese-manufactured hardware in voting systems and support devices, raising serious concerns under EO 13873 and Section 6 of EO 14248 related to election infrastructure security.
- Election Day compliance failures: Arizona accepts and counts ballots received after Election Day, in contradiction to 2 U.S.C. § 7 and 3 U.S.C. § 1, and to your policy requiring uniform enforcement of federal law establishing Election Day deadlines.
Voter roll integrity and citizenship verification: There is insufficient enforcement of proof-of-citizenship requirements and a lack of coordinated list maintenance, contrary to the mandates in Sections 2 and 3 of EO 14248. Arizona still relies on self-attestation without consistently requiring documentary proof of citizenship for Federal elections. - There is sufficient evidence that the current voter registration database and poll books system utilize an interface with a flawed Arizona Motor Vehicle system, resulting in voter registrations being canceled or altered without knowledge or consent, in violation of 52 U.S. Code § 20507.
Her letter asks for a “formal compliance review of Arizona’s election systems and procedures, with specific attention to the following:”
- Whether all voting equipment and vote tabulation systems in Arizona comply with the standards in
EO 14248, including the ban on encoded vote counting. - Whether proof-of-citizenship requirements are being enforced during registration and maintained through proper list oversight.
- Whether ballots are accepted after Election Day and counted in federal elections.
- Whether Arizona’s current motor vehicle system and electronic poll books is resulting in illegal registrations and voter disenfranchisement.
- Whether foreign components or software remain embedded in the systems used for voter registration, vote casting, vote tabulation, or reporting.
- Whether Arizona’s statewide election practices meet the funding eligibility standards established by the Election Assistance Commission in accordance with EO 14248 and the Help America Vote Act.
The letter to Commerce Secretary Lutnick further cites President Trump’s 2019 Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain Executive Order. This order was previously used to declare a national emergency to combat vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure created by using technology that is “designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries.”
“In public statements and testimony, voting equipment manufacturers themselves have acknowledged the use of components sourced from overseas, including Chinese-made microchips, circuit boards, and networking hardware. The presence of such components in systems responsible for tabulating and transmitting election results poses an unacceptable risk to the confidentiality, integrity, and unauthorized access of our election infrastructure,” Rogers writes.
She asks the Secretary to review and determine whether the following systems “include components, software, or firmware that originate from foreign adversaries or pose an unacceptable threat to the national security of the United States”:
• Electronic pollbooks
• Ballot-on-demand printers
• Vote tabulators
• Election management software
• ADA Ballot marking devices
• Reporting and transmission systems
Retired Army Colonel Conrad Reynolds, CEO of the America Voter Integrity Initiative, who worked with Senator Rogers to identify these issues, posted copies of the letters on X, highlighting the importance of the issue and urging the White House to take action:
I would like to give a big thank you to Senator @WendyRogersAZ and the AZ Senate Election Committee for taking election security seriously.
The Senator, who is a fellow veteran, has asked @POTUS, @WhiteHouse, and Sec of Commerce @howardlutnick for a compliance review on the Arizona election systems in regards to @realDonaldTrump’s executive order on elections and also in regards to election systems being a part of national security and its critical infrastructure designation.
It’s imperative that all states comply with the executive order and to ensure the critical infrastructure is not compromised by foreign adversaries.
Thank you, Senator Rogers.
I would like to give a big thank you to Senator @WendyRogersAZ and the AZ Senate Election Committee for taking election security seriously.
The Senator, who is a fellow veteran, has asked @POTUS, @WhiteHouse, and Sec of Commerce @howardlutnick for a compliance review on the… pic.twitter.com/44HjzBA9vS
— COL Conrad Reynolds (@ColonelReynolds) July 16, 2025
Read the full letters below.
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