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.
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The Arizona audit (or, as some have called it, “fraudit”) has been a tough story for practical reasons, too journalists have been barred from the room. On day one, Jen Fifield, a reporter at the
Arizona Capitol Times, likewise tried to get in as an observer, but was escorted off the premises; she was told first that her registration hadn’t gone through, then that she needed letters of recommendation. (Fifield was not asked for letters.) A few days later, officials agreed to allow a press pool comprising a rotating reporter, photographer, and videographer to sit in a makeshift press box above the floor. (The Veterans Memorial Coliseum seats fifteen thousand people.) Last Friday, Ryan Randazzo, a pooler on duty for the
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