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Arizona Senate Republicans sign new lease for Arizona election audit

Stevicus

Stevicus

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Senate Republicans sign lease to continue Arizona election audit (fox10phoenix.com)

So, they were supposed to have been done with the audit by yesterday, but it's taking longer than expected. Their lease expired yesterday, and they have to clear out of there for high school graduations. Therefore, all the computers, equipment, files, etc. are going to be stored at the State Fairgrounds until May 23, when they can return to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum to resume the audit. They signed a new lease which will let them stay until the end of June.

Sheesh.

And of course, there's been a new slew of nastygrams coming from the various players in this ridiculous drama.

What do missing files, ballot claims around the Maricopa county election audit mean? (abc15.com)

Update: Thursday evening Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers released a statement refuting the claims made in the letter. The statement demands “an immediate retraction of any public statement made to the media and spread via Twitter.” The County plans on holding a public meeting on Monday on the matter.

Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann (R- Prescott) sent a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors informing them that auditors have discovered “serious issues.” Fann identifies three issues in particular: Non-compliance of the legislative subpoena, chain of custody issues with the ballots, and evidence of database files being removed from the election management computer.
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This whole thing is turning into a real fiasco.

Republican chairman of Arizona county calls state-led election review ‘dangerous’ as tensions rise over 2020 recount (msn.com)
 
sun rise

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The right is waging war on voting, waging cultural wars and working on implementing aspects of cancel culture rather than governing.
 
tytlyf

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This is Cyber Ninja's first time doing an audit or anything involving an election. "On the job training."
Which shows the whole thing was a sham from the get-go.
This is the real Republican party, corruption and cheating in our government.

Democrats = for the People
Republicans = for the Few
 
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F1fan

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Altfish said:
Well they 'approved' the recount by Ninja Thingies, it is a farce meant to keep Trump's lie in the headlines.
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It is a disturbing trend among the majority of Republicans in the USA. I see no sound reason why so many of them are attracted to trump when he's facing legal jeopardy soon, and is losing popularity among the majority of citizens.
 
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tytlyf said:
This is Cyber Ninja's first time doing an audit or anything involving an election. "On the job training."
Which shows the whole thing was a sham from the get-go.
This is the real Republican party, corruption and cheating in our government.

Democrats = for the People
Republicans = for the Few
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The whole recount will not be credible given the many mistakes, like letting auditors use the wrong color pens, and the lack of oversight and observers. At this point spending any more taxpayer money will be a waste. My suspicion is there will be a report by Cyber Ninjas that there were x number of fraudulent ballots and they will declare trump won. This will mean nothing except to further the conspiracy of election fraud.
 
Altfish

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F1fan said:
It is a disturbing trend among the majority of Republicans in the USA. I see no sound reason why so many of them are attracted to trump when he's facing legal jeopardy soon, and is losing popularity among the majority of citizens.
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Trump is planning to become a 'martyr' and therefore drive up his popularity.
 
McBell

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The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Saturday called a Trump statement accusing the county of deleting an elections database “unhinged” and called on other Republicans to stop the unfounded accusations.

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Trump’s statement said, in part, that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED! This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms.”

Richer and the board say that statement is just plain wrong. In recent days, both he and the board have begun aggressively pushing back at what they see as continuing falsehoods from Republicans who question Trump’s loss.

“Enough with the defamation. Enough with the unfounded allegations,” Richer tweeted Thursday. “I came to this office to competently, fairly, and lawfully administer the duties of the office. Not to be accused by own party of shredding ballots and deleting files for an election I didn’t run. Enough.”

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Republican Arizona election official says Trump 'unhinged'
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More about Trumps newest bold face lie:

 
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Stevicus

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Apparently, one of the key tech firms involved in the audit was only contracted through May 14, and they have decided not to return.

StratTech Solutions takes over hand count in Arizona election audit (azcentral.com)

The Pennsylvania-based IT company that was in charge of running the hand recount of Maricopa County ballots is no longer involved in the audit.

The contract with Wake Technology Services, Inc. ended May 14, the original completion date for the hand count, and the company chose not to renew its contract, according to Randy Pullen, an audit spokesperson and former state GOP chair.

"They were done," he said. "They didn't want to come back."

Wake TSI was the subcontractor that developed and oversaw the procedures for recounting the county's nearly 2.1 million ballots, working under Cyber Ninjas, the state Senate's main contractor performing the overall audit of the county's general election results.

The audit was on break from May 14 until Monday, as high school graduations took place in the coliseum.
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Pullen said that Scottsdale-based technology company StratTech Solutions took over Monday running the hand count, using Wake's procedures.

The company has been involved in the audit since the beginning, Pullen said, including helping set up the technology for the hand count procedures. It's unclear whether the company, which specializes in cybersecurity and other internet technology, has any election or auditing experience.
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The switch in contractors is the most significant change yet in the unconventional audit, which has seen numerous changes since it began April 23.

Ryan Macias, former acting director of testing and certification at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission who has observed the audit for the Arizona Secretary of State's Office, said Tuesday that this represents the “continuation of the mismanagement and constant change which we have been observing since the beginning."
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But Senate President Karen Fann, R-Prescott, said the company had completed the obligations under its contract and she was informed last week it would not be returning.

“They finished up with their contract, so they don’t need to be there anymore,” she said.

Gene Kern, the co-founder of Wake TSI who was helping manage the hand count, did not immediately return a call for comment.
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Of the auditors, Wake TSI had the most experience in hand counts
Senate Republicans had touted Wake TSI's election experience when announcing an incomplete list of contractors that would conduct the audit, saying that its employees performed a 2020 election hand count in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. The Arizona Mirror reported last week that the firm conducted that audit at the request of a state senator who has been a prominent advocate of the “Stop the Steal” movement.

Cyber Ninjas' original statement of work said that Wake TSI would be "leading all ballot hand-counting processes."

When Doug Logan, Cyber Ninjas' CEO, was questioned about his company's lack of experience in election audits, he said his company was involved in election audits in Michigan and Georgia, but he also emphasized that Cyber Ninjas was just the "coordinating firm" of other companies that had experience in their areas.

When Logan's bias was questioned, after it was discovered that he had touted unfounded claims of election fraud on social media, he emphasized the importance of hiring Wake TSI, which he trusted to create a ballot-counting process that was "beyond reproach."
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"To me," he said in that statement, "the most important element was the hand-counting because if that was done right and transparently, it alone could restore some confidence in our election."

Who is StratTech?
The Senate's liaison to the audit, Ken Bennett, told a pool reporter on May 7 that Wake TSI "probably have two to 300 people that are under their employ or volunteers."

Many of the same people are now working under StratTech, Pullen said.

StratTech was formed in 2013 and has two primary executives, Christopher Moore of Phoenix and Richard Alan Gleghorn of Scottsdale.

Bennett Tuesday that StratTech is very familiar with the hand count procedures, and some of their workers had already gone through training.

"It was a natural fit for them to come in and take over for the role that Wake was playing," he said.

Bennett said he didn't know whether the company had ever been involved in a recount. Asked whether that's important, he said, "Nobody should be precluded from doing something the first time."
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