Posted on 05/29/2021 2:31:23 AM PDT by Libloather
The Arizona Senate may sign a deal for another 2020 election review in Maricopa County following reports that some overseers of the audit are dissatisfied with the process.
The present audit, which includes a review of 2.1 million ballots cast in the state's November election in the county, has been underway since April 23 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, led by the hired firm Cyber Ninjas. Audit liaison, former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, told a reporter with CBS5 News on Thursday that hand counters had gone through more than 800,000 ballots so far. Organizers have said they hope to finish by the end of June.
But the GOP-led state Senate is already eyeing another recount that would be entirely electronic, running digital images of ballots through a program to count all votes cast for every race on the county's ballot, according to the Arizona Republic. Bennett told the outlet they are considering a California-based election transparency nonprofit group called Citizens Oversight for the job, and the results from both audits could be compared to one another.
Citizens Oversight founder Ray Lutz, 63, told the Arizona Republic this week his group has never been commissioned to audit an election, adding that the technology being pitched for the process has never been used for an official audit.
"I would say absolutely this is a grand test," Lutz told the Arizona Republic. "I think it is certainly a big test for me because I have put a lot of work on it for the last year and a half or so. We have enhanced it to the point now where I believe we can do a lot to provide information about how well (this election) went."
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I think you are drawing the exact conclusions that the Liberal writers of this news report are hoping you do. The Republicans running the audit never said this, but that is what the press wants you to conclude.
But what possible reason is there for another audit except that you don't like the results of the first two or three?
Bingo!
First of all, there has been only one audit—the current one.
Secondly, the proposed process isn’t “another” or a “new” audit, it is an extra layer of verification on the existing one. I think they are finding massive fraud and they are doubling down so that it will be harder for liberal and media critics to contest the results. The more bullet-proof, the better. Too much hard work has already been done and the stakes are too high.
Sounds reasonable.
Maricopa County conducted an audit right after the election. They did a hand count of the ballots from a random sample of county preceints and compared the results with the voting machine tally.
Secondly, the proposed process isn’t “another” or a “new” audit, it is an extra layer of verification on the existing one.
No, it's a recount of every ballot cast in Maricopa County during the election done by an entirely different organization than Cyber Ninjas. Why do it if you have faith in what Cyber Ninjas is going to come up with? And what's next? Another audit to check the last audit's results?
I think they are finding massive fraud and they are doubling down so that it will be harder for liberal and media critics to contest the results.
Libs and the media have their defense ready should the Cyber Ninja results make it to court.
That was a hand count not an audit. Two entirely different things.
No, it's a recount of every ballot cast in Maricopa County during the election done by an entirely different organization than Cyber Ninjas.
As I said, it is part of the same audit. The fact that it is by a different company lends more credibility to the results of the main audit.
Why do it if you have faith in what Cyber Ninjas is going to come up with? And what's next? Another audit to check the last audit's results.
See my last statement above and the last in my first post.
They chose a number of precincts at random and audited a hand count of the ballots against the machine totals.
As I said, it is part of the same audit. The fact that it is by a different company lends more credibility to the results of the main audit.
No, different audit by a different organization.
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