“At least one Arizona state senator wants to jail the Republican-majority board of supervisors in Maricopa County after the county rejected new subpoenas from the Senate for election materials,” TPM reports.

Said state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R): “I would have arrested all of these people already if I had the power to do so. I vote to arrest. Arrest and put them in solitary.”

Arizona Republic: “Maricopa County supervisors and Dominion Voting Systems refused to produce additional election material on Monday in response to new subpoenas filed by the Arizona Senate.”

Associated Press: “The highest ranking Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly said Friday that he was expanding a probe into the 2020 presidential election, saying it will take more investigators and time than originally planned.”

Philadelphia’s elections board voted Friday to reject a Republican state senator’s request for access to its voting machines for a “forensic investigation” into former President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection defeat, the Associated Press reports.

“Georgia Republicans have taken the first step on their freshly blazed path toward a possible takeover of Fulton County’s elections,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Arizona Republic: “The main person who has been overseeing the Arizona Senate’s review of Maricopa County election results said late Wednesday he will continue to stay on as liaison, walking back an initial statement in the morning that he would resign.”

“A private contractor conducting a Republican-commissioned review of 2020 presidential ballots in Arizona’s largest county announced late Wednesday that it has collected more than $5.7 million in private donations to fund the process,” the Washington Post reports.

Politico: “The Justice Department on Wednesday issued another warning aimed at states conducting or considering audits of ballots tallied in last year’s election, reminding election authorities that allowing ballots to be mishandled can violate federal law.”

Texas Monthly: “Amid all the fighting, most lawmakers have apparently overlooked a provision that would force counties to automatically reject some mail-in ballot applications.”

“Here’s why: The Republican-authored legislation would require voters to submit either their driver’s license number or a partial Social Security number when applying to vote by mail. That number would then be cross-checked with the state’s voter-registration database.”

“Most applicants would be fine, because almost 90 percent of all registered Texas voters have both their Social Security number and driver’s license number in the database. However, 1.9 million voters—about 11 percent of the total—have only one of the two numbers on file with the state.”

“With a rising drumbeat of criticism, several Republican Georgia legislators are building a case for the state government to take over Fulton County elections,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

“The newfound power to fire local elections management, created by Georgia’s voting law, worries voting rights advocates, who say it could be abused for partisan purposes to tamper with the heavily Democratic county.”

“Though a state monitor reported sloppy management, three counts of Fulton’s ballots arrived at similar results and state election investigators haven’t found fraud.”

Prosecutors across the country found evidence of voter fraud compelling enough to take to court about 200 times since the November 2018 elections, according to a 50-state Bloomberg canvass of state officials.

Interesting takeaway: States controlled by Republicans reported fewer voter fraud prosecutions (59) than states controlled by Democrats (102). Divided states reported 35 prosecutions.

“Pennsylvania’s top election official has decertified the voting machines of Fulton County, which disclosed that it had agreed to requests by local Republican lawmakers and allowed a software firm to inspect the machines as part of an ‘audit’ after the 2020 election,” the AP reports.

“The action by Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid almost certainly means that Fulton County will have to buy or lease new voting machines.”

“Experts in the field fear a massive exodus of administrators that would change how elections are run — and threaten democracy itself,” CNN reports.

“Nearly one in three local election officials included in a recent survey for the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice say they feel unsafe because of their jobs.”

Said election expert David Becker: “We’re in danger of losing a generation’s worth of professional election expertise. That would be bad enough if it weren’t also combined with the fact that they might be replaced with partisan hackery.”

A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds that only 27% surveyed want voting made harder, with 38% wanting it made easier and 35% wanting no changes.

Dan Balz: “Democrats have produced the biggest headlines recently on the charged issue of voting rights. What they’ve yet to produce is an effective strategy to counteract the work Republican state legislators are doing to limit access and inject partisanship into the election process. More and more for Democrats, it looks like a long battle ahead.”

“Arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3 million ballots cast in last year’s presidential election, undercutting former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election as his allies continue a disputed ballot review in the state’s most populous county,” the AP reports.

“Maricopa County will spend nearly $3 million to replace voting equipment that officials say was permanently tainted by the Arizona Senate’s election review,” the Arizona Republic reports.

“The county will spend millions to purchase and then destroy the old equipment that was subpoenaed for the audit as well as for new systems before the upcoming elections.”