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View Comments Maricopa County will spend nearly $3 million to replace voting equipment that officials say was permanently tainted by the Arizona Senate's election review.  The county will spend millions to purchase and then destroy the old equipment that was subpoenaed for the audit as well as for new systems before the upcoming elections. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously for the funding after the county announced June 28 it would not reuse most of the voting equipment that was in the possession of contractors for the audit. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs had previously warned...

PHOENIX (AP) — Voting machines from Arizona’s most populous county should not be used in the future after state Senate Republicans forced officials to give them access for an audit of 2020 election results, the state’s top elections official said Thursday. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, said in a letter that Maricopa County […]

Arizona PBS May 20, 2021 Some of the record-setting number of early ballots received by the Maricopa County Elections Department in this October file photo. Elections officials insist the election was secure and that several audits prove it, but that has not stopped the state Senate from ordering another, controversial private audit. (Photo courtesy Maricopa County Elections Department) WASHINGTON – Maricopa County’s chief information security officer said the county was able to handle cyberthreats to the 2020 elections, but handling public perception of the results in the face of rampant...

The county hired several firms to conduct the audit, led by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based firm that has no election experience before 2020 and is led by a Trump supporter who has promoted election conspiracies. The audit will not change the outcome of the election, but many Trump supporters hope it will lead to similar reviews in other battleground states and turn up evidence that President Joe Biden’s victory was illegitimate. Critics say it’s a fruitless attempt to further Trump‘s narrative about the 2020 election and will diminish faith in the democratic process. “I have grave conc...

Senate Republicans sign lease to continue Arizona election audit By Jonathan J. Cooper PHOENIX - Republicans in the Arizona Senate have signed a lease to continue their slow-moving audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County through the end of June. The state Senate and its contractors had rented the Veterans Memorial Coliseum through May 14, when they must vacate the old basketball arena because it is booked for high school graduations next week. Republicans have hired Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based cybersecurity firm to oversee an unprecedented, partisan review of the 2020 election...