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July 15, 2021
Boxes of mail-in ballots – 1.5 million of them with just days to go before the 2020 election in Maricopa – in boxes waiting to be counted. Private companies performing a state Senate-ordered audit of the county’s elections said Thursday they have finished reviewing more than 2 million ballots, but are not able to complete their report after six months of work. (File photo courtesy Maricopa County Elections Department)
WASHINGTON – The private firms auditing Maricopa County elections told senators Thursday they have finished reviewing the more than 2 million ballots, but will not be able to deliver a complete report without cooperation from county officials.
A judge Thursday ruled that the public has a right to know who is paying for the outside audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Kemp rejected arguments by state Senate President Karen Fann that information about who is paying the non-government group, Cyber Ninjas, should remain secret. Kemp ruled that the work of the private firm reviewing ballots and voting equipment for months is subject to public records laws.
The Senate is paying the Cyber Ninjas $150,000, but the judge noted that amount is far less than the total cost. Under the agreement signed by Fann, Cyber Ninjas has been allowed to raise money from private sources. The total cost of the review has not been released.
Records of Arizona’s review of the 2020 election must be made public, a judge rules.
Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, a company hired by the Arizona State Senate to audit voting records from the 2020 presidential election, moved boxes of ballots in Phoenix, in May.Credit.Courtney Pedroza for The New York Times
July 15, 2021
Republican state senators overseeing a review of the 2020 election in Arizona’s most populous county must make public the records of private companies hired to conduct the audit, a county judge ruled on Thursday, emphatically rejecting a bid by the senators to keep the documents secret.
“It is difficult to conceive of a case with a more compelling public interest demanding public disclosure and public scrutiny,” Judge Michael W. Kemp of Maricopa County Superior Court wrote in the ruling. Any company documents with a “substantial nexus” to the review must be made public, he wrote.
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