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The audit is taking place in a coliseum on McDowell Road here in Phoenix that used to be home to the Suns, the city’s basketball team (its nickname is the Madhouse on McDowell). For all the attention around the audit, the thing that stood out to me the most when I watched it up close on Tuesday was how slow and sleepy things were. Of the 46 tables in the arena, less than half were filled with people counting. Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state who is serving as the senateâ€...

I watched Arizona’s unprecedented election audit – here’s what’s happening Sam Levine in New York © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images Happy Thursday, I’m writing from Phoenix, where I’m spending the week covering a remarkable GOP audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa county, home to the majority of Arizona’s registered voters. The audit, which is unprecedented in US elections, is being watched with alarm around the country. Expe...

Laptop computers sit abandoned, at times open, unlocked and unmonitored. Procedures are constantly shifting, with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, on Wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at a Republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona’s largest county. In the six-page letter, Hobbs wrote that elections are �...

A GOP-backed auditing group in Maricopa County is burrowing through ballots in search of bamboo fibers and Chinese paper to prove a far-fetched theory votes were flown in from Asia cteh@businessinsider.com (Cheryl Teh) © Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, who was hired by the Arizona State Senate, examine and recount ballots from the 2020 general election at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 1, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Maricopa County bal...

COURTNEY PEDROZAGetty Images I know that I seem overly concerned with the extended farce going on in Arizona right now, but I am a little bit unsure of the qualifications of many of the people who are overseeing the counting of 2.1 million ballots from Maricopa County. Take, for instance, this gentleman who talked to Dennis Welch, the political editor at CBS5 in Phoenix. His name is John Brakey, and he is “investigating” “reports” that 40,000 ballots were flown into Arizona from “the...

May 5, 2021 4:59 p.m. The recount of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2.1 million ballots includes an analysis of whether the ballots have any bamboo fibers, an audit leader said Wednesday. The official said that the auditors were seeking to vet a wild claim that 40,000 counterfeit ballots were shipped in from Asia. The explanation for the review by John Brakey — who is serving as an assistant liaison for the Arizona Senate Republican-ordered “audit” — confirms suspici...

On Wednesday, a member of the Arizona election audit team that has been heavily touted by former President Donald Trump revealed that its examination of the 2020 vote in Maricopa County will include a “forensic” analysis of ballots to determine if the paper is made of bamboo—in order to determine whether or not China delivered tens of thousands of fraudulent ballots to tip the state to Joe Biden. If that sounds much too crazy for an audit that was initiated by the Republican-led Arizona L...

Judge Rejects Democrats’ Bid to Immediately Halt Arizona 2020 Election Audit An Arizona judge on April 28 rejected an attempt by the Arizona Democratic Party to immediately halt an audit of the 2020 election in the state’s largest county. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin said Democrats didn’t provide “substantive evidence of any breaches or threatened breaches of voter privacy.” The lawsuit, filed just before the audit started last week, may ultimately succeed, the ...

CEO OF Cyber Ninja, former Ariz. Secy. of State hold press conference on ballot audit in Phoenix FILE – In this Nov. 4, 2020, file photo, Maricopa County elections officials count ballots in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 7:59 AM PT – Friday, April 23, 2021 The Arizona ballot audit has begun with election officials poised and ready to oversee the hand recount of more than 2.1 million ballots. Former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug L...

What Trump’s Attack On Arizona Voters Shows About Our Election Systems This article was produced by of the Independent Media Institute. Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo had heard enough. More than a half-hour into the boards January 27 consideration of a "forensic" audit where two outside firms would assess if its voting system used in Arizonas 2020 presidential election had been infiltrated and the results altered, the former state senator said that his vote in favor of...