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The firing last week of an Associated Press reporter for her conduct the news agency said violated its social media policy while employed as one of its journalists is being criticized.Former Arizona Republic intern Emily Wilder began working for the AP on May 3, based in Phoenix. She was fired May 19 after being the target of conservative media outlets like Fox News for
Maricopa County auditor seeks emergency hearing over release of security information Daniel Chaitin © Provided by Washington Examiner The consulting firm hired by the GOP-led Arizona Senate to conduct an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County claims a document about plans for a possible attack by "antifa" never should have been released by the court. Florida-based Cyber Ninjas filed on Friday for an emergency status conference with county Judge Daniel Martin, claiming the court knew there was an agreement between the defendants and the Democrats who filed the lawsuit ...
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...
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 t...
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 procedure...