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Auditors Finish Counting Ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County Auditors in Arizona’s largest county on Wednesday finished a third count of ballots and will shift to compiling a draft report on the audit results. Workers overseen by retired auditor Randy Pullen, a former Arizona Republican Party chair, completed the third count at the Wesley Bolin Building on the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, according to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann. “The physical tabulation of the ballots a...

Fann demands records on audit from Hobbs From left are Katie Hobbs and Karen Fann In a sign the Senate audit, which was supposed to be only about the 2020 election results, is now expanding in scope, Senate President Karen Fann now wants documents from Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. In a public records request, the Prescott Republican is demanding any communications Hobbs has had with anyone about the audit and the litigation it has produced. And Fann is casting a wide net, seeking not just me...

On Saturday, Donald Trump made the third public appearance of his post-presidency at a rally in Phoenix, repeating the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him and playing hype man for the transparently kooky Arizona election audit that appears poised to claim the same. Trump’s visit, though, came as the audit itself was beginning to unravel in spectacular fashion. It started before Trump’s remarks, when on Friday the Arizona Senate point-person for the audit, former Republican Secret...

Print this article The Arizona Senate liaison for the Maricopa County 2020 election audit is threatening to step down if he is denied access to "critical aspects" of the controversial review. Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state, said he was on the verge of resigning after being blocked last week from entering a facility at the Phoenix state fairgrounds, where Cyber Ninjas is conducting a ballot recount, but reconsidered, at least for now, after speaking with Arizona Senate Preside...

View Comments Water was leaking from the metal roof of the state fairgrounds building where the review of Maricopa Countys 2020 election ballots was continuing during Friday afternoons thunderstorm. Workers quickly moved ballot boxes away from the leaks inside the Wesley Bolin Building as the rain poured outside. Randy Pullen, representing the Arizona Senate Republicans who ordered the election review, said no ballots were damaged and they are protected from the leaks. Workers covered b...

Arizona Senate to seek more election material from Maricopa County; door-to-door questioning recommended Andrew Oxford and Mary Jo Pitzl, Arizona Republic Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said Thursday that the Legislature needs more materials and data from Maricopa County for an unprecedented and controversial review of 2020 election results that is deep into its third month. Suggesting that the Senate’s review may not be nearing its end, Fann said during a hearing at the ...

Ben Giles/KJZZ Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan (from left), Senate Liaison Ken Bennett and CyFIR founder Ben Cotton brief GOP state senators July 15, 2021, on their review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County. Claiming to have found discrepancies in Maricopa County’s voting records, vendors hired by state Senate Republicans said more subpoenas should be issued to the county and recommended going door-to-door to ask voters about their ballot. But the rationale for the recommendation to survey v...

View Comments The Arizona Senate’s effort to do its own check on the number of ballots cast in Maricopa County’s 2020 general election is not expected to begin until Wednesday in the latest turn for an unprecedented and controversial audit that has dragged on for 12 weeks. And the recount — which will be the third tally of the ballots — got a new element of drama on Tuesday after Senate President Karen Fann told a radio show host that the companies hired by the Legislature to review...

Tomasz Kozmicka, 41, was killed in a crash on the A44 Evesham Road at 7am last week. Mr Kozmicka, who lived and worked in Evesham,  leaves behind his beloved wife, Agata, and their two children aged 6 and 8. The Go Fund Me page has been set up by, Marcin Fuja a family friend, to raise money for Agata who has been battling an aggressive brain tumour. The statement on the page reads: "A tragic accident took the life of Tomasz Kozmicka. "As if things arent difficult enough for this fam...

Arizona Senate ballot recount expected to start Tuesday; rest of audit scheduled to end this week Mary Jo Pitzl, Arizona Republic © David Wallace/The Republic The audit of Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election continues in a new building at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix on July 12, 2021. The Arizona Senates paper-counting machines should start churning Tuesday afternoon, pushing the review of Maricopa County election results into a 12th week. Deli...