Vote — approved

Kate Brophy McGee	yes
Debbie Lesko	yes
Mark Stewart	yes
Thomas Galvin	yes
Steve Gallardo	yes

57.Direct Recorder Heap to Make Reports Pursuant to ARS 11-253 Significant new information that has recently come to the attention of the Board of Supervisors, which may require substantive changes in county planning and policies concerning budgeting, appropriations, facilities management, the procurement of real and personal property, ballot printing, the physical distribution of early ballots, the geographical distribution of in-person voting sites, vote tabulation, and election canvassing. Be

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57. DIRECT RECORDER HEAP TO MAKE REPORTS PURSUANT TO ARS 11-253 Significant new information that has recently come to the attention of the Board of Supervisors, which may require substantive changes in county planning and policies concerning budgeting, appropriations, facilities management, the procurement of real and personal property, ballot printing, the physical distribution of early ballots, the geographical distribution of in-person voting sites, vote tabulation, and election canvassing. Before voting on such significant policy changes, the Board of Supervisors wishes to understand the underlying facts and assess the credibility of conflicting factual allegations that are critical to such policy questions. Recorder Heap is the elected Maricopa County Recorder. Pursuant to ARS § 11-253(a) the Board of Supervisors may require any county officer to make reports under oath on any matter connected with the duties of his office. The proposed report will allow the Board of Supervisors to understand the material facts in advance of anticipated votes on changes to countywide policies. The requested report from Recorder Heap must report in detail all facts and circumstances, and must authenticate and attach all records within Recorder Heap’s possession, custody, or control, concerning each of the following topics: the expenditure and pre-payment issues identified in the January 22, 2026 letter from Kate Brophy McGee to Justin Heap (the “Letter”); the signature verification and curing issues identified in the Letter; the special election board and deputy registrar program issues identified in the Letter; the actual or alleged disenfranchisement of Maricopa County voters who cast a provisional ballot due to the unavailability of an Agilis device or inconvenience of using a hand scanning machine, including without limitation records sufficient to identify the affected voters and any disclosure(s) of such disenfranchisement to individuals or entities outside the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office; any requests by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office for federal funds, legislative appropriations, or county funds that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors denied or ignored from January 1, 2025 to the present; communications with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office concerning the distribution of mail-in ballots to voters who had not requested them in the 2025 special election in Congressional District 7; and/or the reassignment of space in MCTEC from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office. The Recorder must produce his report and all supporting records by the close of business on February 18, 2026. (C-06-26-248-X-00)