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Rachel Leingang

‘We will prosecute death threats’: Arizona’s new attorney general fights to protect election workers

Kris Mayes, Arizona’s attorney general.
Kris Mayes, Arizona’s attorney general. Photograph: Cassidy Araiza/Cassidy Araiza for The Guardian US

In less than two months on the job, Arizona’s Democratic attorney general, Kris Mayes, reassigned a unit tasked with investigating election fraud to instead focus on protecting voting rights. She then publicly took former attorney general Mark Brnovich, a Republican, to task for hiding documents that showed the 2020 election was free from widespread fraud.

“Obviously, there are clear differences between me and my predecessor on these issues,” Mayes said.

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