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Arizona Is Holding Yet Another 2020 Recount. The Company Running It Makes It Even Worse. Slate 2 hrs ago Aaron Mak © Provided by Slate A contractor working for Cyber Ninjas in the Arizona recount. Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images A dubious hand recount of roughly 2.1 million ballots casts for 2020 presidential and the U.S. Senate elections is underway in Maricopa, Arizona’s largest county. In November, President Joe Biden won the county with 50.3 percent of the vote, as did ...

A dubious hand recount of roughly 2.1 million ballots casts for 2020 presidential and the U.S. Senate elections is underway in Maricopa, Arizona’s largest county. In November, President Joe Biden won the county with 50.3 percent of the vote, as did Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly with 51.9 percent of the vote. Now, six months after the election, Arizona’s Republican-controlled state legislature has ordered a highly unusual audit. The effort is fueled by unsubstantiated accusations of fraud and i...

The state Senate's "audit" must end.

Auditors hide donors, look for secret watermarks on ballots Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, left, a Florida-based consultancy, talks about overseeing a 2020 election ballot audit ordered by the Republican lead Arizona Senate at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, as a Cyber Ninjas IT technician demonstrates a ballot scan during a news conference Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Phoenix.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) What the Senate election audit lacks in transparency, it makes up for in QAnon c...

Cyber Ninjas releases its election audit policies after court order A volunteer observer (right, dressed in orange) watches as Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona senate at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Ariz. on April 27, 2021. Photo by Rob Schumacher | Arizona Republic/pool Following a judge’s ruling that the Arizona Senate’s election audit team can’t keep its policies and procedures secret, le...

On the fly: An Arizona Republic reporter’s inside account of the GOP-led 2020 election audit Maritza Dominguez, Arizona Republic The Arizona Senates audit began nearly six months after the 2020 election at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Friday, April 23. Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based company, was contracted by the state Senate to conduct the audit. Journalists had little to no access to observe the audit apart from the right-wing news outlet One America News Networ...

Reporter Jen Fifield breaks down the State Senates audit of the 2020 election ballots from Maricopa County.

The cyber security firm hired by the Republican-led Arizona Senate to audit Maricopa County’s 2020 election results on Sunday told a state Superior Court judge that the company couldn’t divulge its recount procedures amid concerns that the entire ordeal is nothing more than a partisan stunt aimed at fueling false claims of widespread election fraud. The post Pro-Trump Firm Hired by Arizona GOP to Audit 2020 Election Results Told Judge It Can’t...

Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, left, a Florida-based consultancy, talks about overseeing a 2020 election ballot audit ordered by the Republican lead Arizona Senate at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, as a Cyber Ninjas IT technician demonstrates a ballot scan during a news conference Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Phoenix. The equipment used in the November election won by President Joe Biden and the 2.1 million ballots were moved to the site Thursday so Republic...

Maddow Blog | Why Arizonas election audit matters (even outside of Arizona) MSNBC 1 hr ago Steve Benen Its tempting to roll ones eyes at the new "audit" of election results in Arizona. After all, we know what happened in the Grand Canyon State last fall. An official vote tally showed Joe Biden defeating Donald Trump in the state, thanks in part to a strong showing in Arizonas largest county, Maricopa County. Republicans, committed to the Big Lie, cried fowl, so Arizona conduct...