, who serves as sheriff of Pinal County, Ariz., and True the Vote's Catherine Engelbrecht, announced that their groups had joined forces to create ProtectAmerica.Vote, a new initiative to"provide local sheriffs with information, resources, and tools to support election integrity in their county."
"But now it's to the point [where] we're actually seeing examples of sheriffs starting to ask questions of election officials," McCord told conference attendees in Pittsburgh. Specifically, Trent said that Hayden questioned the placement of ballot drop boxes at public libraries in 2020, proposed limiting the hours ballot drop boxes would be available in future elections, offered to have his staff pick up ballots from drop boxes in unmarked vehicles and requested to have a sheriff's deputy in the room to observe the counting of ballots.
In an emailed statement, Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab's office disputed the"unfounded claims" on which Hayden's investigation is based, noting that"to date, not a single instance of election fraud from the 2020 General Election has been prosecuted in any court in the 105 counties in the state of Kansas."