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.