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View Comments The Arizona Senate-ordered audit of Maricopa County's general election will take a one-week hiatus at the end of the week to make way for high school graduations at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.  The plan is to move the ballots and equipment to another area of the Arizona State Fairgrounds on Friday and move back in May 23 to pick back up on May 24.  “We’ll stand aside and secure all the ballots and equipment here on the property and be ready to go when they’re finished,” said the state Senate's audit liaison Ken Bennett. Jen Yee, assistant executive director ...

Joined by elections law expert Rick Hasen, The Gaggle covers how the ongoing ballot audit could have long-term affects.

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Arizona’s ‘Cyber Ninjas’ Usher in New Era of Insane Ballot Attacks Jessica Huseman © Provided by The Daily Beast Getty A private company led by a conspiracy-minded CEO and concerned about security threats from antifa is using UV lights and assessing the “feel” of paper ballots to determine—using unclear and contradictory methodology —which votes in Maricopa County, Arizona, were supposedly fraudulently cast in November. Never before has an election audit been conducted this way. That is why the results of the audit—ordered by the Republican majority of the s...

View Comments Gov. Doug Ducey has ordered Arizona Department of Public Safety protection for Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and her family after she received death threats related to the Senate contractor's ongoing audit of the November presidential election in Maricopa County. C.J. Karamargin, a spokesperson for Ducey's office, on Friday confirmed that Ducey ordered the protection. "We take threats of violence very seriously and they are unacceptable," he said. Hobbs spokesperson Sophia Solis said in an email that the office requested the security detail. "Our office reached out to the gover...