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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich speaks at a news conference in Phoenix, on . E-cigarette giant Juul Labs will pay Arizona $14.5 million and vowed not to market to young people in the state to settle a consumer fraud lawsuit filed by the Arizona attorney general’s office that alleged the maker of vaping products illegally targeted youth in its marketing efforts

Despite former PresidentDonald Trump’s insistence that the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud in Arizona, no evidence has been found to support that theory. In fact, months after the controversial Cyber Ninjas election audit group said it believed nearly 300 dead people may have “voted” in the election, the state’s own attorney general — a Republican — says it appears all but one of those allegedly dead voters were indeed alive.

“After spending hundreds of hours reviewing these allegations, our investigators were able to determine that only one of the 282 individuals on the list was deceased at the time of the election. All other persons listed as deceased were found to be current voters,” Arizona AG Mark Brnovich said in a letter this week.

But its resulting audit report was hugely controversial. While Cyber Ninjas indeed confirmed that Biden had won the election in Arizona, the group also claimed that many unregistered and even dead voters had participated in the election.

Arizona’s state Senate president Karen Fann authorized a review of the Cyber Ninjas audit and ordered the firm tohand over all its recordsback in Sept. 2021. Facing tens of thousands of dollars in fines, the firm shut downshortly after being orderedto turn over all its records.

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“Our agents investigated all individuals that Cyber Ninjas reported as dead, and many were very surprised to learn they were allegedly deceased,” Brnovich said in his letter, which was addressed to Fann.

Brnovich is seeking the GOP nomination to represent Arizona in U.S. Senate, but currently trails the Trump-endorsed Blake Masters, who hasparroted the former president’s false claimsabout the 2020 race.

In the wake of his loss, Trump and his allies filed at least 60 post-election lawsuits — none of them altered the outcome of the election, which the former presidentcontinues to claimhe actually won.

source: people.com