Here's everything we know so far about the Arizona election audit results
Rumble — Ken Bennett: “This Friday at 1:00 pm PT (4:00 pm ET) the final (audit) report will be presented to the senate & the world simultaneously.”
Mr. Bennett provided a few details of what to expect:
- Doug Logan will present on behalf of the Cyber Ninjas
- Ben Cotton will provide what he found when he looked at the machines
- An “individual” will be presenting about the ballot signature envelopes
- Randy Poland will talk about the 3rd count that the Senate did
- Ken Bennett will “have a brief report about where Maricopa County failed to meet and comply with state statutes & election procedures”
Let’s see what happens 🍿
PHOENIX — Arizonans will learn Friday whether a firm hired by the Senate will confirm or dispute official results that Joe Biden outpolled Donald Trump in Maricopa County in 2020 by enough to win the state’s 11 electoral votes.
The report will be made by Cyber Ninjas, a firm with no previous experience in elections and whose audit was funded largely by Trump supporters.
Capitol Media Services has learned that the presentation, set for 1 p.m. Sept. 24 in the state Senate chambers, will include at least two findings of problems with the election returns found by others involved in the review.
Republican Ken Bennett, a former secretary of state serving as the Senate’s liaison with Cyber Ninjas, will report there were several instances where the county did not follow requirements either under state law or the separate Election Procedures Manual. Bennett is reserving comment on whether any of those shortcomings were intentional, however.
Also, Shiva Ayyadurai, hired as a handwriting expert, will say there are questions about the signatures on some envelopes in which county voters returned early ballots.
The long-anticipated report comes as Republican politicians, some angling for higher office, are already declaring that the yet-to-be-seen report found evidence of fraud.
https://tucson.com/news/local/heres-everyt...
Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election were examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas. A long-anticipated presentation on the audit’s findings is set for 1 p.m. in the state Senate chambers.
Matt York, Associated Press
Mr. Bennett provided a few details of what to expect:
- Doug Logan will present on behalf of the Cyber Ninjas
- Ben Cotton will provide what he found when he looked at the machines
- An “individual” will be presenting about the ballot signature envelopes
- Randy Poland will talk about the 3rd count that the Senate did
- Ken Bennett will “have a brief report about where Maricopa County failed to meet and comply with state statutes & election procedures”
Let’s see what happens 🍿
PHOENIX — Arizonans will learn Friday whether a firm hired by the Senate will confirm or dispute official results that Joe Biden outpolled Donald Trump in Maricopa County in 2020 by enough to win the state’s 11 electoral votes.
The report will be made by Cyber Ninjas, a firm with no previous experience in elections and whose audit was funded largely by Trump supporters.
Capitol Media Services has learned that the presentation, set for 1 p.m. Sept. 24 in the state Senate chambers, will include at least two findings of problems with the election returns found by others involved in the review.
Republican Ken Bennett, a former secretary of state serving as the Senate’s liaison with Cyber Ninjas, will report there were several instances where the county did not follow requirements either under state law or the separate Election Procedures Manual. Bennett is reserving comment on whether any of those shortcomings were intentional, however.
Also, Shiva Ayyadurai, hired as a handwriting expert, will say there are questions about the signatures on some envelopes in which county voters returned early ballots.
The long-anticipated report comes as Republican politicians, some angling for higher office, are already declaring that the yet-to-be-seen report found evidence of fraud.
https://tucson.com/news/local/heres-everyt...
Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election were examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas. A long-anticipated presentation on the audit’s findings is set for 1 p.m. in the state Senate chambers.
Matt York, Associated Press
It won’t be as smooth for the report by Ayyadurai, whom Fann added to the audit team midway through the process to examine signatures on the envelopes of the approximately 1.9 million early ballots.
“He’s worked for banks before, he’s an expert on signature analysis and things like that,” Fann said.
Ayyadurai, however, did not have access to county files that have voters’ signatures to compare with those on the envelopes. But Pullen said that, even without that, Ayyadurai did find enough to raise questions.
Pullen said the county claims it uses 27 different points of comparison when it checks to see if the signatures on the envelopes match those on file. But in some cases, he said, what appears in the signature box is just a line or a mark. He said Ayyadurai has identified a number of those.
He acknowledged, though, that does not necessarily mean the ballots that were in those envelopes were invalid.
But, “there’s no way it can be a 27-point check,” Pullen said.
“Now, it’s possible that that scribble that’s in that box is exactly the signature that the person put in as well,” Pullen said. “But not very likely.”