Arizona election audit pauses over space availability
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2020 ballots relocated in semi trucks
MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Per CNN, the first semi truck full of 2020 election ballots rolled slowly through the Arizona State Fairgrounds on Friday, past the Crazy Times Carnival set up in the south parking lot to a warehouse where the approximately 2.1 million ballots cast by Maricopa County voters will be stored for the next week.
On Thursday night, a three-week ballot review led by the GOP-controlled Arizona Senate came to a temporary halt. The lease for the Senate and its tech consultants, Cyber Ninjas, was up at the Veteran s Memorial Coliseum, where openly partisan volunteers and hourly workers had been conducting the ballot count.
Jonathan J. Cooper
Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, Thursday, May 6, 2021 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. The audit, ordered by the Arizona Senate, has the U.S. Department of Justice saying it is concerned about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool) May 13, 2021 - 8:09 PM
PHOENIX (AP) â Republicans in the Arizona Senate have signed a lease to continue their slow-moving audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County through the end of June.
Arizona audit: Recount of Maricopa County election packs up shop for now Staff Reports
The floor of Veterans Memorial Coliseum was largely empty Friday after three weeks of people recounting Maricopa County s general election ballots.
They made it through just less than a quarter of the 2.1 million ballots in that time, despite originally planning to wrap up the Arizona Senate-ordered audit today.
Instead, the ballots and equipment are being hauled to the Wesley Bolin Building on the south end of the state fairgrounds, west of the cattle barns. After a week of high school graduations at the coliseum, the recount is expected to pick back up there on May 24 and run through June.
2020 ballots relocated in semi trucks as Arizona election audit pauses over space availability
The first semi truck full of 2020 election ballots rolled slowly through the Arizona State Fairgrounds on Friday, past the “Crazy Times Carnival” set up in the south parking lot to a warehouse where the approximately 2.1 million ballots cast by Maricopa County voters will be stored for the next week.
This is the latest bizarre act in the replay of the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
On Thursday night, a three-week ballot review led by the GOP-controlled Arizona Senate came to a temporary halt. The lease for the Senate and its tech consultants, Cyber Ninjas, was up at the Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum, where openly partisan volunteers and hourly workers had been conducting the ballot count.