PHOENIX - Arizona voters had a lot to say on Monday as state lawmakers heard testimony from election officials, after a botched presidential preference election last Tuesday.

Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell and Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan were invited to the hearing, hosted by the House Committee on Elections.

Citizens were invited to offer testimony and public comments were passionate.

People present at the gallery say "Police brutality. They are choking him"

#tonedownforwhat Bernie is from Brooklyn. He is supposed to have a tone. It's called straightforward and direct.

#ToneDownForWhat? Telling the truth? Holding you accountable? Asking for even timing for responses?

Hey Hillary!! What's your tone gonna be like when you're chatting with the fbi? #tonedownforwhat

To paraphrase @BarackObama, how will @HillaryClinton handle Putin or Kim Jong-un if she needs @BernieSanders to tone down? #tonedownforwhat

Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday brushed off a request from Sen. Bernie Sanders that she debate him in her home state of New York.

Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon told CNN that the campaign considers the request a “stunt” by a campaign “struggling” for attention and an effort to “get back on people’s radar.”

Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver sent a letter to the Clinton camp on Sunday making the request.

“Our campaign continues to believe that the people of New York, the largest April primary, deserve to have the debate held in their state, and that it should be held prior to the New York primary,” Weaver wrote.

Clinton strategist Joel Benenson told reporters Monday that that would be unlikely at this point.

“We’re still in the month of March, we’ve got real estate to go before New York,” he said.

Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a Democratic primary April 5, and Wyoming will have caucuses April 9. New Yorkers will have their primary April 19.

The campaigns had agreed to at least one debate each in March, April and May. March debates were held in Flint, Mich., and Miami. The May debate is slated for California, according to Weaver’s letter.

“Can you please explain why New York should not host the April debate?” he wrote. “Is the Secretary concerned about debating before the people who twice elected her to the U.S. Senate?”

Benenson suggested that the Clinton campaign also has been concerned with the tone of Sanders’ campaign and that negativity – which he had foresworn earlier in the race – could lessen the chances she will debate.

Bernie Sanders has raised more than $4 million since his victories in Saturday's contests in Washington state, Hawaii and Alaska.

Sanders' campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said Monday that the fundraising shows that the "people backing Bernie are charged up." It's one of Sanders' largest post-election fundraising hauls during his primary fight against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

The money will help the Vermont senator as he prepares for advertising in upcoming states such as Wisconsin, New York and Pennsylvania.

Clinton holds a large lead among pledged delegates but Sanders says those states and the California primary on June 7 offer him a path to compete for the Democratic nomination.

Bernie Sanders has picked up another superdelegate in the wake of his landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the Alaska Democratic caucuses Saturday.

Alaska Democratic Party vice chairman Larry Murakami, who had previously donated to Sanders but formally had been uncommitted, decided to back Sanders after the Vermont senator defeated Clinton 82 percent to 18 percent in the state on Saturday.

"Yes," Murakami told POLITICO, when asked Monday if he was throwing his support toward Sanders as a superdelegate. "I only became the vice chair of the Alaska Democratic Party in January. So I decided to be uncommitted and to encourage the dialog and get people talking."

That changed after Alaska went big for Sanders.

"I'm going with Alaska," Murakami said. "I don't know that any other of the Alaska delegates have committed to one candidate or another, but I think it's totally appropriate if we're over 80 percent for one of us to step forward and say, "yeah, I'm voting for Sanders like everyone in my district, like most of the people in my district and most of the people in Alaska."