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Why Arizonas election audit matters (even outside of Arizona) Its tempting to roll ones eyes at the new "audit" of election results in Arizona, but the dangers associated with this nonsensical circus are real. BySteve 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...

Doug Logan, asserted that abiding by a court order to produce its training manuals and procedures would “compromise the security of its recount.” Attorneys for Cyber Ninjas argued the following, according to the report: But the company argued on Sunday that filing the documents in court publicly would compromise the security of its recount. And it argued that the records include protected trade secrets. The company also maintained that the documents are protected by legislative privilege, a...

Workers are recounting more than 2 million votes from the November election in Maricopa County, Arizona with the help of a private cyber-security company. Arizona republicans hired the third-party firm called Cyber Ninjas -- whose CEO had been documented pushing the "Big Lie" and the "Stop the Steal" movement. Making matters even worse, journalists have been banned from entering the coliseum to observe the recount, so some members of the press resorted to entering as 'ob...

Experts raise concerns about processes, transparency as election audit begins As the Arizona Senate’s historic recount and audit of the 2020 general election in Maricopa County kicked off, outside the watchful eye of journalists who were banned from attending, election integrity experts raised a number of concerns about what they deemed an alarming lack of policies or knowledge of proper procedures by the auditing team. After months of legal battles and various other setbacks, the Senate on F...

Black and blue ink are the only colors the Maricopa County election machines can read. Thats why it mattered when a reporter from The Arizona Republic questioned why counters for the hand recount of the countys 2020 general election were equipped with blue pens: Blue ink can alter a ballot, causing it to be discarded, or confusing the voters intent. Based partly on that, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury ordered a temporary halt to the audit, which started Friday morning...

April 23, 2021 4:45 p.m. Update: This story has been updated to reflect that an order by a judge halting the Arizona audit will not go into effect. Well that didn’t take long. The sketchy Arizona Senate GOP-ordered audit of the 2020 election began in earnest on Friday and almost immediately ran into trouble, with security concerns raised by Democrats prompting a judge to consider pausing the audit activities over the weekend. Maricopa County Superior Judge Christopher Cou...

This is a ridiculous story that will become very dangerous in the long run. It will become a lie that the craziest part of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory world will try to live on and build on for a long time to come. pic.twitter.com/B9VTV6xdpE— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 24, 2021 "The Democrats are swarming the Great State of Arizona trying to get the Forensic Election Audit stopped, because only they know exactly what they’ve done, and they understand Voter Fraud far ...

Share this - copied Jen Fifield, reporter for the Arizona Republic, talks with Rachel Maddow about the loose security and poor attention to detail on the first day of a recount of 2020 election ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona being conducted by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist at the behest of the states Republican senate and at the expense of Arizona taxpayers. April 24, 2021 ReadMore

Arizona universities play big role in vaccine rollout Carrie Watters, Arizona Republic © Gilnature, Getty Images/iStockphoto Coronavirus Its Monday evening, and this is Coronavirus Watch from The Arizona Republic, where we update you about the latest on how COVID-19 is affecting you and our community. Arizonas two largest universities have played huge roles in the vaccine rollout.  Arizona State University is managing state-run vaccination sites at State Farm Stadium and els...