A hacker exploited a vulnerability on the Maricopa County Recorder's website in November 2020, extracted 633,000 voter registration records using a PowerShell script, confessed to federal agents — and then watched as four separate prosecutors declined to charge him with anything.

This happened during what officials assured us was the "most secure election in history."

The details come from newly declassified FBI case files released through the White House Government Transparency Task Force, chaired by John Solomon. The suspect admitted to discovering the vulnerability on Maricopa County's voter registration servers, writing a script to scrape the data, and storing it on his personal hard drives and Google Cloud. Of the 633,000 records extracted, 930 files contained sensitive, non-public information — records belonging to domestic violence victims, judges, and law enforcement officers whose addresses are shielded by law for their physical safety.

The FBI investigated thoroughly. They got the confession. They handed the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General's Office, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, and the Pinal County Attorney's Office. All four declined to prosecute. The case was closed in 2023.

"The FBI expended significant resources to solve the case and even got the suspect to confess," Solomon said. "But the Biden DOJ via the U.S. attorney in Phoenix and three state and local prosecutors all declined to prosecute. No accountability."

Jeff Clark, former Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, put a finer point on it: "Standing alone, the Maricopa County, Arizona hack was one of the largest compromises in U.S. history of confidential voter data. Yet the culprit was allowed to get off scot-free."

The suspect destroyed evidence before the FBI could fully recover it — wiped hard drives, deleted Google Cloud copies. A White House official told The Center Square that investigators don't believe the suspect was working with foreign agents and that no ballots or voter registrations were altered. But that's the point everyone keeps missing. The breach itself proves the system was vulnerable. A single individual with a PowerShell script accessed 633,000 records that were supposed to be secure.

This is just the latest crack in the wall. The same batch of declassified documents revealed that China obtained 220 million individual U.S. voter files. The CIA had obtained reporting that Venezuela's Maduro regime conspired to digitally rig their own 2020 elections by manipulating voting machines in a way that swapped votes undetectably — no trace in post-vote audits, no trace in hand counts. A Department of Homeland Security assessment found that more than 250,000 illegal aliens were on voter rolls in four states: California, Nevada, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. In New Jersey alone, 6,600 non-citizens were registered through the motor vehicle system, and 400 of them voted in recent elections.

Former CISA Director Chris Krebs testified to the Senate that "the 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history." Arizona's then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs — now the state's Democratic governor — called it "easily the smoothest" and "most secure election in recent history." These weren't casual remarks. They were the official line, repeated by every institution with a microphone, used to justify censoring anyone who asked questions.

The argument from the other side has always been that no votes were changed, so no harm was done. Which is an interesting standard to apply to one of the largest voter-data breaches in American history, committed by a suspect who confessed and destroyed evidence, in a county that became the epicenter of election integrity disputes — and was met with zero prosecution by four different offices.

Five and a half years after the 2020 election, the declassified record now shows: a massive voter-data hack with no prosecution, Chinese acquisition of 220 million voter files, Venezuelan experiments in undetectable vote-swapping, and hundreds of thousands of non-citizens on the rolls in swing states.

The "most secure election in history" keeps getting shorter every time they open a filing cabinet.