This is the document that Democrats in Arizona and elsewhere don’t want anyone reading. They spent six years telling the public that 2020 was “the most secure election in history.” The declassified FBI files released Thursday morning tell a different story.

A hacker accessed Maricopa County’s voter registration system days before the 2020 election and extracted 633,000 voter records — including 930 files containing sensitive, non-public information. When FBI investigators closed in, the hacker wiped his hard drives and deleted his Google Cloud copies to destroy the evidence. Then he confessed.

The FBI presented the complete case — evidence plus confession — to four different prosecutorial authorities: 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.

Every single one declined to prosecute. And of course, the Biden administration did nothing as well.

No charges. No accountability. No public disclosure. Nothing. The FBI closed its case, wrote a letter documenting what had happened, and the cover-up of non-secure elections continued uninterrupted while Democrat Katie Hobbs — then Arizona Secretary of State, now governor — told voters the state had conducted “easily the smoothest and most secure election in recent history.”

Chris Krebs, then director of CISA, told the entire country that 2020 was the most secure election in American history. He knew about this breach. He said nothing except to call President Trump a liar.

Jeff Clark’s question cuts to the heart of what nobody in Arizona’s legal establishment wants to answer: “Was the hacker told he was golden and could skate? Is that why he maintained he acted alone? That tends to happen when a target knows they’re not going to be prosecuted.”

Four prosecutors. Four declinations. A hacker who confessed. Evidence that was then deliberately destroyed. And a Republican-controlled county Board of Supervisors that went before Congress and called their election “the most secure, verified election in our history.”

Democrats will reach for their standard defense: voter registration data is different from vote-counting systems, and auditable paper ballots would catch any attempt to alter actual vote totals. That distinction is legitimate as far as it goes. It does not explain why a hacker who stole 633,000 voter files and confessed to a federal crime faced zero legal consequence from any of four separate prosecutorial offices.

It does not explain why the public was never told. It does not explain the destroyed evidence, the non-prosecution, or the continued assurances of maximum security from officials who were sitting on this case.

The dam of the cover-up, as Jeff Clark put it, has “shattered on the valley floor.” China compromised 220 million voter files nationally. Iran and Venezuela were running their own operations. And in Maricopa County, a hacker confessed to the FBI and walked free because nobody wanted to prosecute him.

Chris Krebs called it the most secure election in history. The documents say otherwise.

Pass the SAVE America Act. Now. Before we live through this again.