After days of silence, on Tuesday journalists got limited access inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum where the Arizona Senate s contractors are attempting to hand count all Maricopa County ballots cast in the November election.
Officials with Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, the private contractor leading the audit, were not present in the press area to answer questions, including how many of the nearly 2.1 million ballots have been reviewed since the audit got underway Friday.
Ken Bennett, the Senate s liaison for the audit, spoke to the media in a news conference outside the state Capitol for the first time since Friday, but he said he did not know how many ballots had been counted.
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Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, a Florida-based consultancy, talks about overseeing a 2020 election ballot audit ordered by the Republican lead Arizona Senate at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, during a news conference Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP
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PHOENIX A judge hearing a challenge to voter privacy policies during the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate’s recount of 2.1 million 2020 election ballots in the county that includes metro Phoenix said Tuesday he is not convinced voter secrecy is being upheld.
The comment from Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin came at the end of a lengthy hearing where he also declined to extend a previous judge’s order that auditors hired by the Senate comply with state voter privacy laws – at least until he hears more at a hearing on Wednesday.
While Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin acknowledged that the GOP-controlled Arizona Senate has the authority to conduct the audit of Maricopa s 2.1.
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