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How the national push by Trump allies to audit 2020 ballots started quietly in Pennsylvania Rosalind Helderman © Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP Supporters of President Donald Trump protest in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Nov. 7 after Joe Biden overtook Trump for the lead in Pennsylvania during the vote count. Joe Biden’s presidential victory in Pennsylvania had been certified for weeks when officials in some Republican-leaning counties began receiving strange phone calls from GOP state senators in late December. The lawmakers, who had been publicly questioning Biden�...

Cyber Ninjas releases its election audit policies after court order A volunteer observer (right, dressed in orange) watches as Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona senate at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Ariz. on April 27, 2021. Photo by Rob Schumacher | Arizona Republic/pool Following a judge’s ruling that the Arizona Senate’s election audit team can’t keep its policies and procedures secret, lead audit contractor Cyber Ninjas submitted nearly two hundreds pages to the court detailing its prac...

Capitol Media Services PHOENIX -- Tactics planned by election auditors hired by the Senate to verify the outcome of the 2020 race are illegal and even criminal, attorneys for various voter rights issues contend. And they may go to court to bring them to a halt. In a letter Tuesday to Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the lawyers said the plans which include knocking on doors and contacting people "constitute voter intimidation.'' And they said it's irrelevant whether that is the intent -- and even whether that's part of the contract Logan signed late last month with Senate President Karen ...

Arizona Senate Hires 4 Firms to Audit 2.1 Million Ballots From 2020 Election The GOP-led Arizona state Senate on Wednesday announced that four firms have been hired to audit election results and recount the 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County’s 2020 general election to ensure the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s win. The announcement from Sen. Karen Fann (R-Ariz.) comes just weeks after Arizona legislators ordered a recount of the ballots from the state’s most populous county. The state Senate released a statement on March 18 saying that it will conduct a “broad and detaile...