{"id":8957,"date":"2026-10-19T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:22:38","slug":"maricopa-county-arizona-is-again-ground-zero-of-election-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8957","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County, Arizona, Is Again Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cMore shenanigans at the Maricopa county ballot tabulation center,\u201d Lake <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KariLake\/status\/2108716764238692576\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/KariLake\/status\/2108716764238692576&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KariLake\/status\/2108716764238692576\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cOnly through God\u2019s intervention was this even discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But it wasn\u2019t God who provided the video to the group. Jennifer Liewer, the deputy elections director for communications in Maricopa County tells WIRED that the clip was taken from a nonpublic backup livestream camera that is active but not currently one of the livestream cameras <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/elections.maricopa.gov\/news-and-information\/live-video-feeds.html?__cf_chl_rt_tk=_ZgpCpZ7v.qrx5O7GkuHEs6341boyUkjL4L5T61ftN4-1792149233-1.0.1.1-Uy0bQEYpJ7kbXKxYaQ_zGsz.qUj8qzMe47cwA_81PNk\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/elections.maricopa.gov\/news-and-information\/live-video-feeds.html?__cf_chl_rt_tk=_ZgpCpZ7v.qrx5O7GkuHEs6341boyUkjL4L5T61ftN4-1792149233-1.0.1.1-Uy0bQEYpJ7kbXKxYaQ_zGsz.qUj8qzMe47cwA_81PNk&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/elections.maricopa.gov\/news-and-information\/live-video-feeds.html?__cf_chl_rt_tk=_ZgpCpZ7v.qrx5O7GkuHEs6341boyUkjL4L5T61ftN4-1792149233-1.0.1.1-Uy0bQEYpJ7kbXKxYaQ_zGsz.qUj8qzMe47cwA_81PNk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available on the county\u2019s website<\/a>. A source with knowledge of the matter who was not authorized to speak on the record tells WIRED that members of the We the People group had obtained the IP address for the camera years ago, allegedly allowing them to continue to monitor it. We the People did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/2110432039099118001\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/2110432039099118001&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/2110432039099118001\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a statement<\/a> last week that debunked the claim, clarifying that the employees were \u201cperforming authorized and necessary work to update software and upload election data to a computer terminal that is not connected to the internet or ballot tabulation equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Unsatisfied with this explanation, Shelby Busch, the founder of We The People USA Alliance and a representative for the Republican National Committee (RNC), <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/justin-heap-fbi-to-investigate-election-allegations-against-maricopa-county-board-arizona\/75-2a4feac9-bb74-439b-b038-b73aa9ae8cd1\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/justin-heap-fbi-to-investigate-election-allegations-against-maricopa-county-board-arizona\/75-2a4feac9-bb74-439b-b038-b73aa9ae8cd1&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/justin-heap-fbi-to-investigate-election-allegations-against-maricopa-county-board-arizona\/75-2a4feac9-bb74-439b-b038-b73aa9ae8cd1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">then contacted<\/a> the Maricopa County recorder Justin Heap, who <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/boltsmag.org\/maricopa-county-election-administration-2024-results\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/boltsmag.org\/maricopa-county-election-administration-2024-results\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/boltsmag.org\/maricopa-county-election-administration-2024-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is aligned with Trump<\/a>. His office then contacted the FBI to investigate the issue, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/samthepol\/status\/2110787146063987165\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/samthepol\/status\/2110787146063987165&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/samthepol\/status\/2110787146063987165\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Heap\u2019s chief of staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The FBI asked an investigator from the Arizona attorney general\u2019s office to investigate, and they quickly concluded there was nothing to investigate, according to a copy of their report <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/justin-heap-fbi-to-investigate-election-allegations-against-maricopa-county-board-arizona\/75-2a4feac9-bb74-439b-b038-b73aa9ae8cd1\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/justin-heap-fbi-to-investigate-election-allegations-against-maricopa-county-board-arizona\/75-2a4feac9-bb74-439b-b038-b73aa9ae8cd1&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/justin-heap-fbi-to-investigate-election-allegations-against-maricopa-county-board-arizona\/75-2a4feac9-bb74-439b-b038-b73aa9ae8cd1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seen by 12News<\/a>. \u201cElection integrity is one of the top priorities of this FBI, and we continue to work around the clock to pursue criminal actors who seek to undermine our system and the rule of law,\u201d the FBI tells WIRED.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The RNC and Busch did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The FBI\u2019s closed investigation has not quelled the conspiracy theories. On Thursday, Busch <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v7gx38u-shelby.html\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/rumble.com\/v7gx38u-shelby.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v7gx38u-shelby.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on Steve Bannon\u2019s <em>War Room<\/em> podcast<\/a> repeating claims that something nefarious had happened, and that she had contacted the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice to investigate the matter further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cCan somebody get involved here?\u201d Bannon replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Justice Department, DHS, and the White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cElection rumors contain the same, or very similar, narrative tropes that make them easily digestible for audiences and remixable for rumor producers,\u201d says Starbird, whose group has created <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/bingo.cip.uw.edu\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bingo.cip.uw.edu\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/bingo.cip.uw.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a bingo card<\/a> of such tropes. \u201cMaricopa County has become a trope, a suspicious setting, for election rumors. It\u2019s a ready-to-use building block for a new rumor or conspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/maricopa-county-arizona-is-again-ground-zero-of-election-conspiracy-theories\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMore shenanigans at the Maricopa county ballot tabulation center,\u201d Lake wrote on X. \u201cOnly through God\u2019s intervention was this even discovered.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t God who provided the video to the group. Jennifer Liewer, the deputy elections director for communications in Maricopa County tells WIRED that the clip was taken from a nonpublic backup livestream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[455,130,129,50,75],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maricopa County, Arizona, Is Again Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Theories - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump\u2019s claims the election was stolen. 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