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Covering the election charades in Arizona and Florida In Arizona, the 2020 election still isn’t over. Well, it The Arizona audit (or, as some have called it, “fraudit”) has been a tough story for practical reasons, too—journalists have been barred from the room. On day one, Jen Fifield, a reporter at the Arizona Capitol Times, likewise tried to get in as an observer, but was escorted off the premises; she was told first that her registration hadn’t gone through, then that she needed letters of recommendation. (Fifield was not asked for letters.) A few days later, officials agreed ...

May 6, 2021 10:30 a.m. The U.S. Justice Department has its eyes on the shady “audit” of 2020 election results in Arizona’s largest county. The audit of Maricopa County, which contains the majority of the state’s population and voted by a slight margin for Joe Biden in 2020, hasn’t smelledright for weeks: It was commissioned by the GOP-controlled state Senate over the objections of the county. It’s being performed by a contractor whose CEO promoted wild conspiracytheories. And it’s acceptingdonations from anonymous Trump dead-enders desperate for a way to kee...

Ross D. Franklin/AP Donald Trump’s effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election was a cocktail of equal parts ridiculousness and menace. On the one hand, a sitting president actively encouraged efforts to destroy American democracy — including an attack on the US Capitol. On the other hand, the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference was a thing that happened. So it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that, months after Joe Biden won the 2020 election and was sworn in as president, Trump loyalists in Arizona are engaged in the same kind of absurdist anti-democracy that drove th...

May 5, 2021 12:04 p.m. Volunteer observers of the GOP’s shady “audit” of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2020 election results are being required to sign non-disclosure agreements, local station ABC 15 reported Tuesday night.  An unnamed volunteer told ABC 15 that all observers were being required to sign the document by Cyber Ninjas, the lead contractor for the audit. The so-called audit, which has faced legal challenges and criticisms over lack of transparency and poor logistics, was initiated by Arizona’s GOP-controlled state senate. “I agree that unless I am...

What’s behind Arizona’s bizarre, haphazard, and highly partisan “audit” of the 2020 election Vox.com 5/5/2021 Ian Millhiser © Ross D. Franklin/AP Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, left, talks about overseeing a 2020 election ballot audit ordered by the Republican-led Arizona Senate at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Donald Trump’s effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election was a cocktail of equal parts ridiculousness and menace. On the one hand, a sitting president actively encouraged efforts to destroy American democracy — including an attack on th...