Arizona’s top election office was already preparing for the possibility of a federal raid in the state following an FBI search in late January that was tied to the 2020 election in Georgia, according to newly released internal emails.

Email chains obtained through a public records request by American Oversight on Tuesday showed that a senior aide to Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes alerted election officials across Arizona in January that the office was taking steps to be “prepared” if similar law enforcement activity reached the state.