Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Four Prosecutors Refused To Pursue Hacker Behind 2020 Breach Of 633K Arizona Voters; Newly Declassified FBI Files Reveal Massive Maricopa Voter Data Breach – 633k Records – But No One Was Prosecuted

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Four Prosecutors Refused To Pursue Hacker Behind 2020 Breach Of 633K Arizona Voters:
After a hacker exfiltrated the data of 633,000 Maricopa County, Arizona, voter records in 2020, zero prosecutors at any level of government would prosecute despite urging from the FBI.
Documents released Thursday morning by the White House Government Transparency Task Force detail the massive data breach, an investigation by the FBI, a suspect who admitted to the crime, and a years-long attempt by the FBI to get someone to prosecute, only to close the case due to a lack of prosecutor interest.
“The suspect, perhaps to the chagrin of his attorney, admitted to all of the conduct involved, including that he noticed the vulnerability for quite some time. He considered himself a hobbyist hacker, that in the fall and spring he began looking for ways to exploit the site,” an administration official said on a Wednesday call with reporters. “He ultimately believes that over the course of a period of time, he extracted 1 million to 2 million voter registration records, and then he stored them in four gigabytes on his hard drive.”
About 930 records of the 633,000 included sensitive, non-public voter information such as domestic violence victimization. Although no ballots were accessed or changed and no registrations were changed, an administration official says the data breach displays a major vulnerability in the voting system and 2020 election that Democrats and the corporate press have persistently maintained was the most secure in history.
The first denial to prosecute the crime came from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona on June 12, 2021, about six months into the Biden administration. The Arizona attorney general, Maricopa County district attorney, and the Pinal County district attorney all also declined to prosecute the hacker. According to the FBI summary, the suspect said he did not share the data and “said he was 100% accountable for his actions and was deeply regretful. [Name redacted] apologized and commented that he has to deal with the consequences of his actions.” --->READ MORE HERE
BREAKING: Newly Declassified FBI Files Reveal Massive Maricopa Voter Data Breach – 633k Records – But No One Was Prosecuted:
The White House has released a series of now-declassified documents regarding the 2020 election. In one document specifically, details surrounding a mysterious incident that took place in Maricopa County have been revealed.
The newly-declassified documents show that a hacker was able to obtain approximately 633,000 records of Maricopa County voters, including information on 930 voters that was not publicly available, including domestic abuse victims, according to a letter from FBI Director Kash Patel to the White House Task Force on Government Transparency.
However, according to an interview in November 2020 with a redacted name, the hacker believed they had extracted 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 files, estimated to be four gigabytes of data, using a PowerShell script to exploit the Maricopa County Recorder’s website.
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Maricopa County reported the intrusion through the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center on November 2. By Election Day, November 3, the incident was being circulated among federal election-security officials.
The subject attempted to eliminate the locally and remotely stored copies before the FBI executed its search warrant. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Arizona, the then-Republican-led Attorney General of Arizona, the Maricopa County District Attorney, and the Pinal County District Attorney all declined to prosecute the hacker, despite having evidence and a confession from the hacker.
Further, in an interview with the FBI, the hacker acknowledged that he knew he was going to be visited by “law enforcement,” so he deleted and reformatted his hard drives and deleted his Google Cloud data. He confessed to the destruction of evidence while seeming to acknowledge he was aware he had committed a crime. But no one would investigate. Not the US Attorney, not the Arizona Attorney General, nor the Maricopa or Pinal County District Attorney.
The Gateway Pundit reported in December 2020 that FBI Agents raided the home of Elliot Kerwin, a then-56 year old IT expert. At the time, it was believed that investigators were looking for “evidence of a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data,” according to Forbes.
One of the declassified reports appears to focus on the incident involving Kerwin in Fountain Hills, a town in Maricopa County; however, Kerwin is not mentioned specifically by name in the released documents. --->READ MORE HERE
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