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Why Arizona's election 'audit' matters (even outside of Arizona) It's tempting to roll one's eyes at the new "audit" of election results in Arizona, but the dangers associated with this nonsensical circus are real. BySteve Benen It's tempting to roll one's eyes at the new "audit" of election results in Arizona. After all, we know what happened in the Grand Canyon State last fall. An official vote tally showed Joe Biden defeating Donald Trump in the state, thanks in part to a strong showing in Arizona's largest county, Maricopa County. Republicans, committed to the Big Lie, cried foul, so Ariz...

Doug Logan, asserted that abiding by a court order to produce its training manuals and procedures would “compromise the security of its recount.” Attorneys for Cyber Ninjas argued the following, according to the report: But the company argued on Sunday that filing the documents in court publicly would compromise the security of its recount. And it argued that the records include protected trade secrets. The company also maintained that the documents are protected by legislative privilege, as it is working on behalf of the state Senate. The filing came after the Arizona Democratic Party an...

Workers are recounting more than 2 million votes from the November election in Maricopa County, Arizona with the help of a private cyber-security company. Arizona republicans hired the third-party firm called Cyber Ninjas -- whose CEO had been documented pushing the "Big Lie" and the "Stop the Steal" movement. Making matters even worse, journalists have been banned from entering the coliseum to observe the recount, so some members of the press resorted to entering as 'observers'. Jen Fifield, reporter for the Arizona Republic was one of the only people to get acce...

Experts raise concerns about processes, transparency as election audit begins As the Arizona Senate’s historic recount and audit of the 2020 general election in Maricopa County kicked off, outside the watchful eye of journalists who were banned from attending, election integrity experts raised a number of concerns about what they deemed an alarming lack of policies or knowledge of proper procedures by the auditing team. After months of legal battles and various other setbacks, the Senate on Friday morning began its long-promised probe into the 2020 election, which Senate President Karen Fan...