The claims were rebutted in real time by county officials, who have said the audit is so poorly run and the security is so weak that they can no longer use voting machines in the auditors’ custody but will spend $3 million to replace them. The auditors said they will not be able to provide a “complete forensic audit report” unless the county agrees to provide a laundry list of requests for more information.
#Maricopa county audit findings series#
Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, were the only two lawmakers at the more than two-hour event, in which former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and CyFIR CEO Ben Cotton laid out progress of the audit.įann said repeatedly that “at no time have we ever implied that there were any intentional misdoings” by county election officials, and that the only goal of the audit is to make sure Arizonans have trust in the elections and feel confident casting a ballot in the future.īut the auditors spent much of the meeting laying out a series of “concerns” – many of which rehashed issues cited in a May letter from Fann to the county. “If it were a true hearing, we would have had to have been noticed 24 hours in advance, and it would have had to have been held in front of a committee which would include Democrats and Republicans.”Īrizona Democrats call for audit probe, as federal panel starts its ownīut Fann, a Prescott Republican, and Sen. Rios said Democrats only learned of the meeting 17 hours before it started.
Fann and one other Republican bringing in essentially their clients, their paid clients, to have this back-and-forth conversation, and quite honestly, perpetuate a lot of the conspiracy theories that they’ve been throwing out,” said Senate Minority Leader Rebecca Rios. Senate Democrats did not attend the session on the audit, which one said “is clearly an attempt to sow distrust in our election system.”
#Maricopa county audit findings update#
The comments came during an update of the audit, now six months old, in which no questions or comments were taken and auditors spent much of the time defending their actions and criticizing opponents. That led Arizona Senate President Karen Fann to threaten to take the county “back to court” to force compliance – one day after a judge said Fann and the auditors need to comply with county requests for public records in what critics call a “sham audit.”
WASHINGTON – The private firms auditing Maricopa County elections told senators Thursday they have finished reviewing the more than 2 million ballots, but will not be able to deliver a complete report without cooperation from county officials. (File photo courtesy Maricopa County Elections Department) Private companies performing a state Senate-ordered audit of the county’s elections said Thursday they have finished reviewing more than 2 million ballots, but are not able to complete their report after six months of work. Boxes of mail-in ballots – 1.5 million of them with just days to go before the 2020 election in Maricopa – waiting to be counted last year.
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