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Backfire. a lot of them were wearing shirts and holding signs yesterday at the senate building saying trump won, stop the steal. they firmly believe what they want to believe despite the fact that this group cyber ninjas that was hired to do this review, they were hired by the republican-led arizona state senate, they have no experience with election auditing, it took them five months with very changing methods for how they were going about this process, stops and starts, no bipartisan oversight...

Released publicly anyway. when it was released, there certainly was going to be a lot of dispute about any sort of factual basis of this report. anderson. >> just to be clear, though, the only evidence -- we dont know for a fact that they have covid. this is what the state gop leader has said, right? this is the reason theyre giving? >> in a statement that is all we got. >> okay. so i know you -- i mean youve been -- for better or worse, you have been on this story now for quite some time. i don...

>> reporter: that is in a statement, and that is all we got. >> okay. so i know you -- i mean youve been -- for better or worse, you have been on this story now for quite some time. i dont know how youve done it and kept your composure, but youve been looking at the cyber ninjas. you even tracked down their alleged offices in florida which there was no one there. what did you learn about them over the last few months? >> reporter: well, we had to travel to florida because no one was calling us b...

We learned that from a statement by the arizona state senate president who says that two of the audit contractors are quote quite sick. it is unclear if theyve been vaccinated. so remember the cyber ninjas, a florida based company has zero experience in election auditing. the man who runs the company has promoted the big lie, nearly 400 vote tabulation machines turned over to the cyber ninjas will be -- will not be reused and will need to be replaced. ma maricopa officials found no evidence of w...

Take this. the arizona fraudit results are delayed because some of the cyber ninjas are sick with coronavirus. yep, the full report of the so-called findings from the company that conducted arizonas sham audit of last years election will be late because three of the five members of the cyber ninjas company are covid-positive. we learned that from a statement by arizona state senate president karen fan, who says two of the audit contractors are, quote, quite sick. it is unclear if they had been v...

Using paper based systems. >> and does that slow down the ability to be able to tally the votes quickly enough to get an accurate reading of the results? >> every polling place has a scanner that looks very much like the scanners, like a fax machine or something like that, and generates preliminary totals at the end of the night, and then we can cross-check those that is called post election auditing to make sure those results are correct and thats increasingly done throughout the u.s. >> thank ...