Posted on 08/22/2021 1:43:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s always been that way. They just used to take better care to hide their bias.
That right there is the clincher, sima_yi
There’s no such thing as standard audit procedures. This is the first three-level audit in history.
This opinion piece (claiming to be news) is riddled with fraud.
So, uhm, it would be more credible if it was led by someone who would not even entertain any theory that there could have been fraud?
Auditghanistan
No one is looking at the elephant in the room...most of the laws that were changed allowing the total charade of illegal mail-in fraudulent votes where due to the man=made bio-weapon developed with USA money in conjunction with CCP and unleashed to wreck TRUMP the election and economies of the western societies of the world! None of the MSM, BiG TECH censors nor deep staters did anything but use these tools and their power to lie and censor the truth about the election and the CCP CHINA virous’ and their vaccines’ even until this day and GATES, SOROS, CLINTON, FAUX and NOBAMA will never be charged for their chimes in this TWO TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM - never!
A CNN opinion piece repeated as local news?
Two more asshats from CNN. They seem to have an endless supply.
"Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder — a Republican whose 2020 victory was one of the GOP’s few gains in the state, as they lost the presidential race and a Senate seat — released a 38-page letter titled “Dear Arizona Republicans” last week.
In the letter, Richer, who has become an outspoken critic of the Cyber Ninjas audit, details his own political history as a loyal Republican who voted for Trump, and explains the missteps the auditors and Senate Republicans who hired them have taken that led him to respond forcefully — including disproven allegations of criminal wrongdoing posted on a Twitter account run by the audit team.
Richer notes that three post-election partial audits of Maricopa County’s results found them to be accurate.
He also said he would still be willing to conduct a review of the 2020 election to ease Republicans’ worries, and would do so with Fann and GOP lawmakers — if they ditched Cyber Ninjas.
“What I’m not willing to do is further indulge the biased, inexperienced, incompetent, conspiracy-theory-driven, unscrupulous, partisan Cyber Ninjas,” Richer said.
He wrote that the audit “is an abomination that has so far eroded election confidence and defamed good people.”
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That's funny - lawmakers from around the country have visited the audit and almost all came away praising the precision and professionalism they observed.
Richer has some sort of grudge against Cyber Ninjas. I suspect they smelled a rat and shut him out. With "Republicans" like him who needs enemas? - MTN
https://azsos.gov/sites/default/files/2019_ELECTIONS_PROCEDURES_MANUAL_APPROVED.pdf
Forgive me if it seems like I’m jumping all over you, but a post like yours doesn’t further our cause.
In the spirit of jumping, you clearly don't understand the difference between the different kinds of audits that people are currently involved with. The audits described in the AZ election procedures manual are typical of activities that I mentioned in the normal process of canvassing, reporting, etc. The AZ hand count "audit" is a form of sampled test that would hopefully reveal one class of tabulation errors.
There is a big difference between those kinds of efforts and the efforts being undertaken by the people involved in post election audits in Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire in the case of Windham.
The normal election processing audits are focused on simple checks for errors which may have happened in the normal course of running an election, or simple machine failures. If you read the descriptions you would have seen that, for example, none of the AZ procedures look in any way for weaknesses or security flaws in the voting systems. No efforts are made to evaluate, in a forensic way, any of the election artifacts.
Do you think that the types of expertise needed to perform the steps listed in the AZ audit procedures, such as checking totals on documents, are the set of skills and expertise used to examine forensic disk images to look for rogue software? I hope you understand the difference in expertise and methods between a clerk in an office using Excel and an engineer looking at system level event logs in a Windows server.
In addition, the "audits" listed in the election procedure manuals are largely conducted by the election departments themselves. While it is good to audit your own finances, an audit from external accountants is a different kind of process, with possibly different results. Historically election officials have been among the most likely people to corrupt the election process, so an audit using different methodology is appropriate.
If you have been following the litigation in Georgia you would know that the "audit" process conducted by the Fulton county election board and its employees failed to detect batches of ballots that were scanned twice. A more robust process by the litigants identified the duplicate batches. Repeating the process which failed to detect the mistakes is not helpful to anyone.
In New Hampshire the experts doing an audit looked at things like how paper folds affected an optical scanner, and the source of white dust found inside some of the precinct scanners. In the latter case the expert suspected it was a residual from the offset printing process due to his knowledge about the details of how printing is done. That same expert also was able to forensically evaluate the data structures on memory cards used to control the scanners.
That kind of process is not in the election procedure manuals, and very few people exist who have that kind of knowledge.
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