Arizona Audit!

hanimmal

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I wonder if they are going to also have to pay for the voting machines the (fr)audit compromised.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-ballot-review-costs/2021/07/28/d9b093c6-f010-11eb-bf80-e3877d9c5f06_story.html
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A private contractor conducting a Republican-commissioned review of 2020 presidential ballots in Arizona’s largest county announced late Wednesday that it has collected more than $5.7 million in private donations to fund the process.

The controversial ballot review, which included a hand recount of Maricopa County’s nearly 2.1 million ballots and a review of ballot tabulating machines, has been underway since April. It was ordered by the state’s Republican-led Senate, which agreed to spend $150,000 in taxpayer money to fund the audit. But the Senate allowed Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based firm hired to lead the process, to collect donations as well.

It has been clear for months that lengthy ballot review, which was conducted by dozens of workers, some working nearly round the clock, was being largely financed by allies of former president Donald Trump. The newly released figures put that fact in sharp relief: More than 97 percent of the audit’s costs have so far been shouldered by donations from five organizations led by people who have promoted the false claim that the election was stolen.

In a statement, Cyber Ninjas indicated that $3.25 million came from the America Project, a group led by former Overstock chief executive Patrick Byrne.

Byrne became a key player in challenging the legitimacy of the election after the November vote, joining former national security adviser Michael Flynn and pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell in a raucous December meeting with Trump in the Oval Office. During the meeting, the trio urged Trump to appoint Powell as special counsel to investigate voting machines in key counties across the country. Flynn now serves as a paid adviser to the group.

In June, Byrne told The Washington Post that he had personally donated $500,000 to the Arizona effort and his group was raising money from others as well. Byrne also produced a movie alleging massive fraud in the election that featured interviews with Doug Logan, the head of Cyber Ninjas.

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Another $605,000 came from Voices and Votes, a group led by One America News Network host Christina Bobb. Bobb has used on-air appearances for the pro-Trump network to solicit donations for the group.

The Washington Post has reported that Trump’s political PAC raised about $75 million in the first half of this year, using his false claims that the election was stolen to motivate donors, but has given no money to finance the Arizona ballot review.

The announcement from Cyber Ninjas comes as state Senate President Karen Fann announced Wednesday that the audit had concluded its public efforts — ballots will be returned Thursday to Maricopa County. The county’s Republican-led board of supervisors have been deeply critical of the effort.

Fann has said a final report of Cyber Ninjas’ findings is expected in August.
 

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GOP liaison to Arizona reverses course after vowing to resign
The Republican serving as liaison between the Arizona state Senate and the private company conducting a partisan ballot review said Wednesday that he intended to resign, then walked it back.

Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state, said he'd decided to resign when it became clear he would not regain access to the Phoenix fairgrounds where the private company, Cyber Ninjas, continues its examination of millions of ballots cast last November in Maricopa County.

"Right now I’m the liaison in name only," he told conservative radio host James Harris on Wednesday morning. "I don’t know if that makes me a LINO or what."

Bennett, who has been the public face of the review, was first barred from entering the audit site Friday after he shared some results with outside election experts, according to The Arizona Republic. Those experts told the paper that what they reviewed indicated the auditors' vote tally was in line with the results reported by the county.

"I’ve always tried to act as a man of integrity and honesty and I’m sure I don’t accomplish that all the time, but I cannot put a rubber stamp on a product I am being locked out of its development," he said Wednesday. "I’m going to step down today. I’ll issue a statement later for the press later this morning."

Senate President Karen Fann, also a Republican, had said in a statement to NBC News on Wednesday that a liaison was no longer needed on site because the tabulation of votes was complete and ballots would be returned to Maricopa County on Thursday.

"At this point, we do not need a Senate liaison on site since all data gathered will now be taken to the auditors labs for analysis," she said. "After the auditors have submitted their draft report, Ken will be part of this process as the authorized Senate liaison. Ken and the entire Senate team will have full access to all the core audit data to verify their findings. The Senate contract with the auditor explicitly says all data and findings gathered from the entire audit is the property of the Arizona Senate."

Bennett suggested in a series of interviews earlier this week that he might step down because his exclusion from ongoing processes would make him leery of signing off on a final report.

In his Wednesday morning interview, Bennett said he was "appreciative" of Fann's statement indicating he would play a role in drafting the final report, "but I’ve got to have access to the source data and everything that will be the building blocks to that final report."

"I can’t just come in at the last minute and be asked to endorse something that I can’t be a part of really building," he said.
 

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Wisconsin Republican Expands 2020 Election Investigation
The highest ranking Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly said Friday that he was expanding a probe into the 2020 presidential election, saying it will take more investigators and time than originally planned.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos signed contracts in June with two retired police detectives and a former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice to handle the investigation. But those two investigators quit earlier this month, Vos confirmed for the first time Friday, leading him to “take a different tack.”

Vos has designated retired Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman as a “special counsel” and empowered him to hire as many investigators as he wants, with the goal of completing the probe this fall.

Vos said plans to change the investigation he ordered had been underway for a while, after Gableman came to him and said a more robust effort was needed with investigators who could work on it full-time. Though he didn't set a budget, Vos said it would be reasonable to spend several hundred thousand dollars on it.

Vos had wanted to hire three former police detectives, but only signed contracts with two. Vos said both of them quit because they were hired to work part-time, but they said it required a full-time effort.

Wisconsin Democratic Party executive director Nellie Sires called it a “sham investigation.”

“The fact will remain that the 2020 election was free, fair and conclusive,” she said in a statement. "It’s time for the Speaker to end the charade and start telling the truth.”

There are almost no documented cases of election fraud in Wisconsin. Two people have been charged with election fraud out of more than 3 million votes cast in the state, and prosecutors are still reviewing a handful of other cases that were among 27 forwarded to them by elections officials. Similarly, very few potential voter fraud cases have been identified in Arizona.
 

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Rejection of Philadelphia 'Forensic' Audit Could Prompt Legal Battle
On Friday, Philadelphia election officials voted unanimously to reject Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano's request for access to city voting machines for the ''forensic investigation'' he has initiated.

The denial of the request could set the stage for a legal battle.

The Philadelphia City Commissioners, the board responsible for the rejection, is made up of two Democrats and one Republican. After holding the vote at a public meeting, Chairwoman Lisa Deeley wrote a letter to Mastriano, according to U.S. News, saying that the 2020 election was ''secure, fair, and free from interference'' and that his inquiry could cost taxpayers $35 million because it would lead to the decertification of voting machines.

'In addition to being costly,'' Deeley wrote, ''replacing the voting system and equipment would likely take over a year. This would render it impossible for Philadelphia to conduct the November 2021 General Election as well as the May 2022 Primary Election.''

The Pennsylvania agency in charge of elections warned that if their voting machines were turned over for an audit, they would have to decertify the equipment. Mastriano has since set a July 31 deadline to Philadelphia, York and Tioga counties with the tacit warning that there could be a legal fight if they don't comply.

''We can expect Philadelphia County to do the legal challenge, which is fantastic. That's their right. But in the end we will take a look scientifically, honestly, with full transparency,'' Mastriano said.

Philadelphia, York and Tioga counties have all said they will not participate in the audit at the risk of their voting machines being decertified.

Wonder why they do not question how many votes Biden got in states that he lost? Same machines.
 

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: DOJ Doesn't Have 'Last Word' on Election Audits
Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said Saturday on Newsmax that he doesn't quite understand the legal argument being made by the Department of Justice against election audits like the one in Arizona, because the Constitution "allows states to determine their own election processes" and the DOJ doesn't have the last word in such issues.

"The last word would be had by the Supreme Court," Dershowitz said on Newsmax's "Saturday Report."

"I don't understand the theory under which a state can't do whatever it chooses to do, like Florida chose to do in Bush versus Gore, and what Georgia has chosen to do, and other states have chosen to do."

Earlier this week, the DOJ issued guidance saying that post-election audits and voting laws passed recently in several states "risk violating the Civil Rights Act."

The guidance has been seen as a warning to Arizona's auditors and said that when election records are no longer being controlled by officials that could lead to a "significant risk of the records being lost, stolen, altered, compromised, or destroyed," particularly in the case where private entities who don't have experience with such records are not familiar with federal law.

"The Justice Department can threaten, but in the end, they don't make the decision," said Dershowitz. "The decision is made by the courts and I don't completely understand the theory under which the Justice Department expects to be able to stop auditing of votes."

"We've never had a situation like this in the history of the United States," said Dershowitz.

"Theoretically, I guess a state could withdraw its electoral votes, but it's too late. We already have a president...I don't think unless one finds massive, massive fraud of the kind that doesn't exist, the idea of undoing an election is just unthinkable under American law, and the Constitution just doesn't provide for it, so I think we have to focus on the future to make sure that the next elections, the congressional elections, the federal, the presidential election are not only fair but appear to be fair because the appearance of fairness is crucial to the preservation of democracy."

The unwashed,

FREEDOM_IS_NOT_FREE
How the hell does Dershowitz know there isn't massive fraud? Exactly what constitutes massive fraud anyway..More states are deciding to audit, so if in a year there are a dozen or so states that show discrepancies of thousands of votes in each state, to me that's massive fraud...NOT just simple mistakes..

Hankster1958
DoJ is scared of the TRUTH coming out!!

TXShamz

3h
“the idea of undoing an election is just unthinkable under American law, and the Constitution just doesn't provide for it,”. Um maybe that’s because the framers of the Constitution never envisioned that the DNCCP, state elected officials, elected representatives at a national level, and the msm media, now including FoxNews, would all collude in ousting a president they never recognized as legitimate and one that was getting between them and their puppet-masters in China.

Zed
The DOJ position is quite clear. Completely stupid but clear.
Only those that count the votes, can audit the votes..... it is a guarantee of corruption....just the way Democrats want....only a completely partisan DOJ would break the first principle of audits..
Stupid Republicans. Voting will never be reformed, until Republicans cheat like Democrats.... until then, we will live under Democrat tyranny

Dr Econ
There is a remedy under the Constitution to dump an impostor. Impeach in the House, convict in the Senate and they’re gone.

THEYWILLALLGOFREE
MIKIE is going to provide the MASSIVE, MASSIVE "FRAUD", it was the CHINESE THAT STOLE THIS ELECTION! IT WAS AN ACT OF WAR!
On Aug. 10th, 11th, and 12th he is going to prove it -- OFFERING A $5,000,000 REWARD TO ANYONE THAT CAN PROVE HIM WRONG
 

smokinrav

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I mean, you just knew it would end like this lol

 

rkymtnman

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: DOJ Doesn't Have 'Last Word' on Election Audits
Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said Saturday on Newsmax that he doesn't quite understand the legal argument being made by the Department of Justice against election audits like the one in Arizona, because the Constitution "allows states to determine their own election processes" and the DOJ doesn't have the last word in such issues.

"The last word would be had by the Supreme Court," Dershowitz said on Newsmax's "Saturday Report."

"I don't understand the theory under which a state can't do whatever it chooses to do, like Florida chose to do in Bush versus Gore, and what Georgia has chosen to do, and other states have chosen to do."

Earlier this week, the DOJ issued guidance saying that post-election audits and voting laws passed recently in several states "risk violating the Civil Rights Act."

The guidance has been seen as a warning to Arizona's auditors and said that when election records are no longer being controlled by officials that could lead to a "significant risk of the records being lost, stolen, altered, compromised, or destroyed," particularly in the case where private entities who don't have experience with such records are not familiar with federal law.

"The Justice Department can threaten, but in the end, they don't make the decision," said Dershowitz. "The decision is made by the courts and I don't completely understand the theory under which the Justice Department expects to be able to stop auditing of votes."

"We've never had a situation like this in the history of the United States," said Dershowitz.

"Theoretically, I guess a state could withdraw its electoral votes, but it's too late. We already have a president...I don't think unless one finds massive, massive fraud of the kind that doesn't exist, the idea of undoing an election is just unthinkable under American law, and the Constitution just doesn't provide for it, so I think we have to focus on the future to make sure that the next elections, the congressional elections, the federal, the presidential election are not only fair but appear to be fair because the appearance of fairness is crucial to the preservation of democracy."

The unwashed,

FREEDOM_IS_NOT_FREE
How the hell does Dershowitz know there isn't massive fraud? Exactly what constitutes massive fraud anyway..More states are deciding to audit, so if in a year there are a dozen or so states that show discrepancies of thousands of votes in each state, to me that's massive fraud...NOT just simple mistakes..

Hankster1958
DoJ is scared of the TRUTH coming out!!

TXShamz

3h
“the idea of undoing an election is just unthinkable under American law, and the Constitution just doesn't provide for it,”. Um maybe that’s because the framers of the Constitution never envisioned that the DNCCP, state elected officials, elected representatives at a national level, and the msm media, now including FoxNews, would all collude in ousting a president they never recognized as legitimate and one that was getting between them and their puppet-masters in China.

Zed
The DOJ position is quite clear. Completely stupid but clear.
Only those that count the votes, can audit the votes..... it is a guarantee of corruption....just the way Democrats want....only a completely partisan DOJ would break the first principle of audits..
Stupid Republicans. Voting will never be reformed, until Republicans cheat like Democrats.... until then, we will live under Democrat tyranny

Dr Econ
There is a remedy under the Constitution to dump an impostor. Impeach in the House, convict in the Senate and they’re gone.

THEYWILLALLGOFREE
MIKIE is going to provide the MASSIVE, MASSIVE "FRAUD", it was the CHINESE THAT STOLE THIS ELECTION! IT WAS AN ACT OF WAR!
On Aug. 10th, 11th, and 12th he is going to prove it -- OFFERING A $5,000,000 REWARD TO ANYONE THAT CAN PROVE HIM WRONG
dershowitz was a "friend" of epstein.
 

rkymtnman

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I mean, you just knew it would end like this lol

i love the morons that wasted something like 6 mil to pay for it. they knew what they were gonna find (wink wink) before it began.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I mean, you just knew it would end like this lol

I think for some it was all about fleecing some rich suckers and the state government for money to do the audit and for Trump it was a key part of the big lie. I think they will end up finding financial fraud with the audit, not election fraud with the election.
 

hanimmal

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i love the morons that wasted something like 6 mil to pay for it. they knew what they were gonna find (wink wink) before it began.
How much would it cost to run a commercial in major circulation for a few(?) months straight?

How many nut cases do you think that their cult was able to bring into their flock?

Im not sure that it was wasted money for them as much as it was effective for keeping their people angry about something for all this time.

Hopefully though it is still too little too late and people figure out the illusion.
 

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Maricopa County and Dominion refuse to comply with Arizona election audit subpoenas
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Republican Senator Warren Petersen issued the subpoenas on July 26, seeking materials to help private contractors finish a controversial audit of Maricopa County's November election ballots.

The subpoena demanded that Maricopa County and Dominion provide routers that were used in the elections, security information for accessing tabulating machines, network data logs, mail-ballot envelopes, certain voter registration records and any records related to alleged data breaches around the time of the election.

Maricopa County again refused to turn over its routers, citing possible security risks. Thomas Liddy, a county attorney, said that producing the equipment could expose "confidential data belonging to Maricopa County citizens" or make law enforcement's communications' infrastructure "extremely vulnerable to hackers."

"Anyone with sufficient knowledge and understanding of elections is able to confirm, through a review of these logs or through an inspection of the tabulators, that the equipment was not connected to the internet and had no wifi devices installed," Liddy wrote.

A Cyber Ninja who is inspecting digital voting machines can not tell that the machines were never hooked up to the internet?
 

CatHedral

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And when they are told that they cannot send the goons hired by these propagandists to go door to door to question how people voted, they get to have the fall back of 'its a cover up' troll.

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Oh, what a beautiful cat/dog/bird what is it's name?

Oh are these your kids? What are their names?

And all that data gets sent back to their handlers to use to attack them.
the IT AssAssins are standing back and standing by to take over where the Cyber Ninjas choked
 

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Continuing to give Republican hordes hope. Now that is leadership.

Republican issues subpoenas for Wisconsin election info
The leader of the Wiscocnsin Assembly’s elections committee issued subpoenas Friday demanding extensive election materials, including all ballots and voting machines from two counties in what she called a “top-to-bottom” investigation of the state’s 2020 presidential results.

Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen sent the subpoenas to Milwaukee and Brown counties. She said last month that she wanted to conduct a review similar to a widely discredited audit performed in Arizona. Brandtjen and other Wisconsin Republicans traveled to that state in June to observe the review.

It’s unclear, however, whether the Wisconsin review will happen. Two other investigations of the election results are already underway and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos signaled that he doesn’t support a third probe. The Legislature’s attorneys said in a June memo that only Vos has the power to issue subpoenas.

Brandtjen didn’t respond to messages Friday morning seeking comment. She spoke at a noon rally at the state Capitol celebrating the subpoenas, however, and promised to put questions about election fraud to rest.

“We’re finally going to put this to bed,” she said to applause and cheers. She left the rally without speaking with reporters.

The subpoenas demand that Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson and Brown County Clerk Patrick Moynihan appear before the committee on Sept. 7 and bring along all ballots cast in the presidential elections in the counties, including mail-in, provisional and physical ballots.

They also must turn over all their tabulation equipment, software, images taken from their election management servers, routers and networking equipment, all absentee ballot logs, media used to transfer data such as flash drives and external hard drives, lists of all internet addresses used at any location where election equipment was used, names of voters and their addresses and birthdates and dates and times equipment was certified.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Fulton County Audit Will Expose 'Big Lie'
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., says Americans will know what "the big lie" really means once the truth comes out from the Fulton County audit in Georgia.

Greene made her comments in a Friday tweet.

She wrote: "When the truth about the election comes out from the Fulton County audit in my home state of Georgia, people will finally know what the big lie really means."

Greene did not provide any details in her tweet.


Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., told Newsmax on July 12, the continuing forensic audit in Fulton County is revealing "tremendous amounts of potential irregularities, to say the least."
 
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