Election experts say giving Maricopa County routers to election auditors could be security threat Jen Fifield, Arizona Republic UP NEXT
Routers serve as the mail carrier of a computer network: They deliver messages using maps of networks and computer addresses.
Think of it like a mail carrier who relies on maps and addresses to get mail to the right place.
Given access to the mail carriers or routers information, it would be easier for a bad actor to get access to a person s mail, or to target the information inside the network.
That s an analogy one tech expert – Matt Bernhard, a research engineer at Voting Works, a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open source election technology gave while explaining the importance of keeping Maricopa County s routers secure.
Recount Faces Week Off
The most visible piece of the audit the livestreamed hand recount of all 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots for president and U.S. Senate - is moving at a glacial pace.
At the end of this week, the recount will come to a temporary halt.
The Senate’s contract to use Veterans Memorial Coliseum for its hand count ends on Friday. The audit will have to clear out of the coliseum that day to make room for a week’s worth of Phoenix high school graduations.
As of Monday, a new contract between the Senate and the Arizona State Fair, the coliseum’s operator, had not been signed.
May 10, 2021 12:00 p.m.
Arizona Senate Republicans’ conspiracy-theory-infused “audit” of 2020’s election results in Maricopa County will soon be interrupted by the sounds of Arizona teenagers celebrating the end of their high school years.
That’s right: Having counted just a fraction of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million ballots, audit leaders at the end of the week will have to pack up and clear the floor of Phoenix’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum to make space for… graduations. Several days of them.
Audit leaders haven’t been totally clear about what happens after that: Their lease on the Coliseum which they obtained after Maricopa County made clear that they wouldn’t allow the audit to take place at a county facility runs through Friday.
Updated: Answers to your questions about the Arizona Senate s audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County Jen Fifield, Arizona Republic
Much has happened in the six months between the Nov. 3 presidential election and now, as private contractors for Arizona Senate Republicans audit election results in Maricopa County.
As the hand count of the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in the county continues at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, many questions have been raised about who is involved, who is paying for it, how the Senate plans to keep ballots and voter information secure and who is allowed to observe in person.
Though the 2020 presidential election is six months behind us, a review of nearly 2.1 million ballots in Arizona s largest county is currently underway, ordered by the state s Republican-led Senate. Stephanie Sy explores the growing controversy and what it means for our democracy with Tammy Patrick of the non-partisan Democracy Fund.
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Judy Woodruff:
Although the 2020 presidential election is six months behind us, a review of nearly 2.1 million ballots in Arizona s largest county is currently underway.
Stephanie Sy explores the growing controversy and what it means for our democracy.
Stephanie Sy:
Thanks, Judy.
We explore the questions and concerns around the Maricopa County review ordered by the state s Republican-led Senate with Tammy Patrick of the nonpartisan Democracy Fund. She previously served as a Maricopa County election official for more than a decade.