Maricopa County Has Become the Laughingstock Across the Country

Arizona Congressional Candidate Abe Hamadeh reacts to a breaking report that reveals Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and the Arizona secretary of state office’s colluded with third parties to ban social media content they believed was mis- and disinformation. “This is a recorder who's in charge of counting the votes and he’s actually going to put his thumb on the scale. It’s shocking how reckless our government officials are and his statements about how the First Amendment gets in his way,” Hamadeh says. “If they spent as much time as they are trying to suppress the First Amendment rights of Arizonans as they did to make sure we have an honest and fair election, maybe we wouldn’t have this mess here in Maricopa County.”