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Dominion Voting Systems released a statement Thursday calling the audit of the 2020 election in Arizona s Maricopa County an irresponsible act after Senate President Karen Fann questioned whether someone deleted a main database from the Election Management System last month. Dominion voluntarily provides access to voting machine equipment and information to auditors who have been accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. We happily did so with the independent EAC-accredited providers that Maricopa County hired for system auditing earlier this year, the company wrote in a statement obtained by 12 News reporter Brahm Resnik, one day after Fann raised questions with the Maricopa County Elections Department.
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
Legislators in Arizona and officials in the state’s largest county clashed anew this week over election audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of election machines.
Arizona’s Senate told Maricopa County on Friday that it would issue subpoenas for live testimony from the county’s Board of Supervisors unless it received the materials that are being withheld.
“We’ve been asked to relay that the Senate views the County’s explanations on the router and passwords issues as inadequate and potentially incorrect,” a lawyer for the Senate said in an email to county officials.
By Caitlin Huey-Burns, Adam Brewster
May 9, 2021 / 7:06 AM / CBS News Arizona GOP launches recount of ballots
More than six months after his defeat in the November election, former President Trump is still claiming victory, calling the election the big lie, despite several recounts and dozens of unsuccessful lawsuits that say otherwise.
Although every state has certified its results, the Republican-controlled state Senate in Arizona has undertaken a full hand recount and audit of the ballots and voting machines in Maricopa, the state s largest county, a move that has been frequently praised by the former president. President Biden won the county, a longtime Republican stronghold, by 45,109 votes, and he won the state by 10,457 votes. At the same time, Democrats also picked up a U.S. Senate seat from Arizona.
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Votes are counted by staff at the Maricopa County Elections Department office in Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 5, 2020.Legislators in Arizona and officials in the state s largest county clashed anew this week over election audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of election machines.
Arizona s Senate told Maricopa County on Friday that it would issue subpoenas for live testimony from the county s Board of Supervisors unless it received the materials that are being withheld. We ve been asked to relay that the Senate views the County s explanations on the router and passwords issues as inadequate and potentially incorrect, a lawyer for the Senate said in an email to county officials.