“It has been nothing but delays, delays, delays, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann says. Pictured: Contractors for Cyber Ninjas, a firm hired by the state Senate, move Maricopa County ballots May 8 that will be examined and recounted at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. (Photo: Courtney Pedroza/ Washington Post/Getty Images)
Arizona Republicans at the state level are squaring off against their counterparts at the county level over an election audit, even though leaders on both sides agree that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win Arizona’s 11 electoral votes.
“This has nothing to do with overturning the election or decertifying electors or anything else. It never has been about that,” state Senate President Karen Fann said during a public meeting Tuesday about the audit of the election results in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county and second-largest voting jurisdiction.