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The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.
A controversial review of the 2020 general election returns in Maricopa County will go on a one-week hiatus.
The long-anticipated pause was set in stone on Wednesday, when Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) signed an agreement to extend the Senate’s lease at the Arizona State Fairgrounds through the end of June.
Private firms hired by Fann and Senate Republicans will move nearly 2.1 million ballots and voting equipment out of Veterans Memorial Coliseum and into the Wesley Bolin Building on the fairgrounds, making way for high school graduation ceremonies next week. The Phoenix Union High School District has the coliseum booked the entire week of May 17, an arrangement well known prior to the Senate’s agreement.
Arizona election audit progress: We ll do it until it s done. And that s our plan, says Ken Bennett
By FOX 10 Staff
Ken Bennett interview on Arizona election audit
The Arizona Senate Liaison to the election audit said ..I think it s very important that we do this, to make sure that the people of Arizona can have 100 percent confidence that their elections are transparent, the outcomes were fair, and that they are publicly verified. So we ll do it until it s done. And that s our plan.
PHOENIX - The aging Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix once played host to NBA games, roller derby and wrestling matches. Now the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election is being tested there.
Andrew Oxford is a political reporter at the Arizona Republic, so it’s his job to find words for political catfights. But it’s been hard to find words for what he’s seeing now: a very public effort by the Arizona’s state senate to reexamine the results of the 2020 presidential election, six months after the fact. Some people have called it an
investigation. Others use that word
audit. Its critics have even called it a
fraudit.
The president is Joe Biden. Elections officials around the country have affirmed this. They’ve also affirmed there was no widespread fraud on Election Day 2020. Here is what’s happening in an aging sports arena in Phoenix, anyway: All 2.1 million votes cast in Maricopa County are being tallied up one more time not by elections officials but by independent contractors. On Tuesday’s episode of What Next, Oxford gave us a look inside Arizona’s push to triple-check the presidential election. Republican politicians say they’re “Just ask