“Does everyone here understand that the 2020 election was a total disgrace?” Trump said.
Trump’s allies have tried to export Arizona’s audit to other states, including Pennsylvania, where a state senator has tried to do his own review of each county’s results, but has been rejected by those counties and Wisconsin. where Republican lawmakers follow various approaches. but they have their heads on the paths to follow.
Delivering the report to state senators on Monday does not mean it will be released to the public immediately. Instead, Senate Republicans and their representatives plan to review it. Ken Bennett, the Senate liaison with the audit team, said last week that a group will spend the next “days or weeks” verifying and “checking the accuracy” of the report.
Bennett told CNN he wanted to “spread the fact, not the rumor” that it would only be a draft report and would not be made public. The Senate team will review the report and could ask Cyber Ninjas for more clarification on its findings.
“The Senate team will review the accuracy and clarity of the final report that will be released publicly,” Senate State Speaker Karen Fann, a Republican, posted on Twitter.
Warnings about “unreliable” conclusions
The completion of the audit and the potential for the report detailing its results to be made public soon, has led Republican and Democratic election officials in Arizona, including GOP officials in Maricopa County, to warn that no it should be taken seriously.
Hobbs, the Arizona secretary of state and 2022 Democratic candidate for governor, also issued a 46-page report that pre-established the results of the audit.
“Clearly, the‘ results ’or‘ conclusions ’that the Cyber Ninjas or any of their subcontractors or partners report on the Senate review are unreliable,” Hobbs ’report says.
The report says the Senate’s account is “secret and disorganized.” He reiterates most of the topics Hobbs has cited for months; lack of security, process changes for voting control and voting, chain of custody issues and transparency.
Again and again in the report notes there were no procedures consisting of reading the ballots, counting the ballots, and storing the ballots. One person working to examine the role of the ballot boxes complained that the process changed “every day, every day!”
In one example, a Senate contractor told observers that after a week, the ballot scanning “had been abandoned because the contractors performed a software update that resulted in the loss of all images from the ballot “.
Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County engraver, a Republican victory in 2020 was one of the few Republican Party gains in the state as they lost the presidential race and a seat in the Senate, published a 38-page letter titled “Dear Arizona Republicans” week.
In the letter, Richer, who has become a outspoken critic of the Cyber Ninjas audit, details his own political history as a loyal Republican who voted for Trump and explains the wrong steps auditors have taken. and the Senate Republicans who hired them led him to respond forcefully, including dismissed allegations of criminal offenses posted on a Twitter account managed by the audit team.
Richer notes that three partial post-election audits of Maricopa County results were found to be accurate.
He also said he would still be willing to do a review of the 2020 election to alleviate Republican concerns and would do so with Fann and GOP lawmakers, should they abandon cyber ninjas.
“What I’m not willing to do is please even more skewed, inexperienced, incompetent, conspiracy theory-based, unscrupulous and partisan Cyber Ninjas,” Richer said.
He wrote that the audit “is an abomination that has so far eroded electoral confidence and slandered good people.”