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Serial numbers missing between original, duplicate ballots in Arizona election audit: official
justthenews.com ^ | 5/19/2021 | GREG PIPER

Posted on 05/19/2021 10:06:51 AM PDT by bitt

"We are struggling as to how we're going to be able to match up" ballots that couldn't be read by machines, Ken Bennett says.

The Arizona Senate's audit of Maricopa County's general election has hit a new snag: verifying whether some ballots may have been counted twice.

The liaison between Senate Republicans who authorized the audit and county officials told a hearing Tuesday that serial numbers were missing on damaged ballots that were duplicated so they could be read by vote tabulation machines.

Former Secretary of State Ken Bennett's team uncovered the error just a few days ago, he told Senate President Karen Fann and Judicial Committee Chair Warren Petersen. Each damaged ballot and its associated duplicate ballot are supposed to have the same serial number to ensure they are only counted once.

But he has found many batches of damaged ballots without the serial numbers that are on the duplicates, violating state law. "We are struggling as to how we're going to be able to match up" those damaged and duplicated ballots, Bennett said.

Asked by Fann if Maricopa County could assist in that effort, Bennett said county officials have made clear to him several times they wouldn't work with any of the auditors the Senate Republicans hired. He will ask for their help directly, Bennett said.

County supervisors portrayed the contractors, led by Cyber Ninjas, as incompetent and unqualified to run an election audit in their own hearing and press conference Monday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arizona; audit; az; electionaudit

1 posted on 05/19/2021 10:06:51 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/19/2021 10:07:05 AM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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To: bitt

Like “ghost guns”? No SN? Probably ballots with no SN are more of a threat than “ghost guns”.


3 posted on 05/19/2021 10:08:14 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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county officials have made clear to him several times they wouldn't work with any of the auditors the Senate Republicans hired

Kind of like Pleading the Fifth, I suppose.

4 posted on 05/19/2021 10:10:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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5 posted on 05/19/2021 10:10:31 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: rktman
Like “ghost guns”? No SN? Probably ballots with no SN are more of a threat than “ghost guns”.

LOL! You coined a new phrase: Ghost Ballots.

6 posted on 05/19/2021 10:13:31 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: bitt

Part of the plan by the enemy. I put nothing past these people.


7 posted on 05/19/2021 10:17:26 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Yo-Yo

Well, YOU actually posted the term. I only suggested an idea. You know, like pantyfa is to pedo joe.


8 posted on 05/19/2021 10:17:43 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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TransRepublicans = RINOs

I do not know the FReeper invented that term, but it makes perfect sense.


9 posted on 05/19/2021 10:23:10 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: bitt
The lack of serial numbers on adjudicated ballots is a strong indicator of fraud.

What was then number of adjudicated ballots? In Michigan and Nevada, the number was about 70% of mail in ballots.

I recall hearing/reading that adjudicated ballots in Maricopa County were about 12%, but I have no good reference to it.

Removing the serial number would allow ballots which were stolen/harvested in one area to be used in another; or to allow ballots which were not sent to anyone be used for fraudulent votes.

10 posted on 05/19/2021 10:28:21 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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...damaged ballots...

? How'd they get damaged? Before or after being counted?

11 posted on 05/19/2021 10:32:00 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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it’s as if they never held an election before....


12 posted on 05/19/2021 10:44:33 AM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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Damaged ballots should not be able to be copied by law. They should be maintained and human read only. Of course most of the problems would not exist if it were not for electronic voting. Such a system will always be used to commit mass fraud.


13 posted on 05/19/2021 11:28:19 AM PDT by Revel
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To: caww

That’s a great cartoon. Lots there. Took me a couple of minutes to take it all in. Thank you.


14 posted on 05/19/2021 1:51:44 PM PDT by upchuck (Corporations don’t pay taxes. They collect them. From us. ~ h/t Little Ray)
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