Arizona's largest newspaper sues Cyber Ninjas, state senate over controversial 2020 election 'audit'

Business Insider ^ | 7/01/21 | Charles Davis

[Libloather]

The largest newspaper in Arizona announced Thursday that it has filed lawsuit to obtain financial records and communications from the Republican-led state Senate and Cyber Ninjas, the private firm that has overseen a highly irregular recount of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.

"Arizona law entitles the public to know how this audit is being conducted and funded," David Bodney, an attorney for The Arizona Republic, said in a statement.

In a June 30 complaint, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, the newspaper argues that it is entitled to the records under the state's public records law. The lawsuit comes after the parties denied a request to hand the documents over voluntarily.

Neither Cyber Ninjas nor state Senate President Karen Fann, who led the push for the controversial review of the Maricopa County results, responded to requests for comment.

Last month, Ken Bennett, a former elected Republican who is serving as spokesperson for the "audit," said workers had finished counting the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in the county, which President Joe Biden won by more than 45,000 votes. But he said a final report could be months away.

The partisan review, which began in late April, has been mired in controversy from the start. For one, it comes after Maricopa County's Republican-led Recorder's office already conducted a professional review of the 2020 vote that disproved allegations of widespread fraud.

[sauropod]

Didn’t click. However, I did read the excerpt.

“Hifgly irregular”. “Partisan.”. Etc.etc.

[texas booster]

Business Insider is a website that uses kids (many still in college) from NYC, many it seems from Colombia University, and pays them a pittance while regurgitating stories from their friends. They do much of their reporting by surfing the web. I haven't visited in over a year but it does look to have changed a bit from a student newspaper to a glorified Bloomberg production.

I remember one story about what it is like to actually visit southern states while under the Trump occupation. Like these kids had never been anywhere except NYC and the Hamptons all their life ...

So if you come from a family with a leftist POV, go to a school with your leftists friends and get taught by ever lefter (?) professors, that is a recipe for monoculture reporting.

[Fido969]

They just want to know who the donors are so they can dox, intimidate and cancel them.

[farmguy]

This lawsuit sounds like a classic case of ‘lack of standing’.

[mykroar]

I see the media is putting quotes around the word audit, to not so subtly infer that it’s not really an audit.

[OrioleFan]

Advice to Arizona Republic: Don’t ask the question if you don’t want to hear the honest answer. This is called stepping in to it.

[OrioleFan]

What do you want to bet, when the true count of legal votes comes out, the democraps will find a car parked out in the desert with La Raza bumper stickers and just enough votes to put Biden back on top in the trunk? Then some socialist judge will allow them to be added to the totals, and we’re back to square one...

[freeandfreezing]

When the Republican Senate conducts a review of the election it is "a highly irregular recount" but when the election board reviews itself it is "a professional review".

Sounds like a totally unbiased, objective media report to me.

[kiryandil]

Note the one-way street on vote fraud with these Media companies.

No questions about the reeking dirty 2020 "vote" in Maricopa - but they're ALL OVER the real audit...

[kaktuskid]

AKA the Arizona Repulsive

[Salamander]

This last year has been such a Fellini-esque psycho circus that nothing is beyond the pale.