What are the Senate s contractors doing with election equipment that they obtained from the county government? It doesn t make any sense, and I ve seen a lot of audits, said Tammy Patrick, a senior adviser of elections at Democracy Fund who previously worked for Maricopa County Elections Department and reviewed the recount procedures on Thursday.
The questions left unanswered by the documents added to those already swirling around the Republican-controlled Senate s efforts to recount two races Democrats won in Maricopa County last year president and U.S. Senate.
Counting continued at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Thursday for a sixth day. While everyone close to the process has refused to say who is funding the undertaking beyond the $150,000 that the Senate agreed to pay the Florida-based firm Cyber Ninjas to manage it a new private organization has sprouted up seeking $2.8 million to pay for the process.
Group running Arizona election audit releases documents it had tried to keep secret Andrew Oxford, Arizona Republic
The public has received the most detailed explanation yet of the route that every Maricopa County ballot will take through an unprecedented recount ordered by the state Senate.
The private company overseeing the recount released Thursday documents outlining policies and procedures for the audit, as ordered by a judge Wednesday, though one document remained under seal.
The 191 pages detailed a process that departs significantly from Arizona’s election procedures. But the documents leave much unclear.
What are the Senate s contractors doing with election equipment that they obtained from the county government?
Arizona PBS
April 26, 2021
The fight over the 2020 election continues in Arizona, where state lawmakers this year filed the third-highest number of voting restriction bills in the nation, according to a national survey. Four of the 23 voting restriction bills are given a shot at passing, while none of the 15 that would expand voting access is still alive at the Legislature winds down. (Photo courtesy Maricopa County Elections Department)
WASHINGTON – Arizona lawmakers, who began the year with one of the highest number of voting restriction bills in the nation, are winding down a legislative session in which it appears only a few of those bills will survive.