#AZAudit Maricopa & Other Arizona County Election Audits - #CyberNinjas / Jovan Pulitzer / Fann / Birther Ken Bennett

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#AZAudit Maricopa & Other Arizona County Election Audits - #CyberNinjas / Jovan Pulitzer / Fann / Birther Ken Bennett

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As a proxy for the dopey deadenders still going on about election fraud, the Maricopa County audit is an example. They have ginned up the marks for hundreds of thousands in donations. Patrick Byrne, Jovan Pulitzer and all those grifters are promising HUGE results. This is going on for a month so seems like a topic that will have some laughs. Or -- maybe -- this will be IT! For real this time!




NOW: Ballot delivery taking place now for Maricopa County election audit
LIVE: The ballots are being loaded into a truck to be delivered for the Maricopa County election audit.

Maricopa County to deliver ballots, machines to fairgrounds for audit
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | APRIL 21, 2021 AT 6:39 AM UPDATED: APRIL 21, 2021 AT 8:33 AM

PHOENIX — Maricopa County will deliver its election equipment to Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday and then cart 2.1 million ballots from the November election to the site Thursday so Republicans in the state Senate can recount the ballots and audit the tabulation machines. The delivery will kick off weeks of counting at the site rented by the Senate. The county refused to allow the legislators to use its facilities after losing a court fight set off by the chamber’s subpoena for the election materials.

The county announced it would deliver the materials over two days because of the volume involved. The Senate will use the former Phoenix Suns arena to store election equipment and the 2.1 million 2020 ballots. Republican Senate President Karen Fann has hired Florida-based Cyber Ninjas — a firm led by a backer of unfounded election fraud theories — to oversee the audit, including a hand recount of ballots.

The Senate will pay only for electricity and personnel at the Coliseum, which it is renting for four weeks beginning Monday. It also must provide security. Supporters of President Donald Trump have cast doubt on the Maricopa County election results since Joe Biden’s narrow win last year. But there has been no evidence of widespread fraud. Judges rejected several lawsuits alleging irregularities in the count.

Last month, the county released the results of two new audits of its equipment that showed no malicious software or incorrect counting equipment and that none of the computers or equipment were connected to the internet. Election administration and security experts said in a letter to Fann early this month that they were “deeply disturbed” by the decision to hire Cyber Ninjas for the audit.

The election was conducted securely, and the audit could undermine confidence in U.S. elections, they said. Cyber Ninjas chief Doug Logan has said his personal views are irrelevant because he intends to conduct a transparent audit.
https://ktar.com/story/4338829/maricopa ... for-audit/

Jovan Pulitzer, an icon among election fraud believers, will play a role in the Arizona election audit
By Jeremy Duda -April 19, 2021 Last Updated: April 20, 2021 12:16 pm

Jovan Pulitzer, a favorite of election fraud conspiracy theorists who claims to have invented technology that can detect fraudulent ballots and whom Georgia’s Republican secretary of state recently derided as a “failed inventor and a failed treasure hunter,” will have a role in the Senate’s audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County. The audit will seek to “identify any ballots that are suspicious and potentially counterfeit,” according to the statement of work for the lead contractor, Cyber Ninjas. Pulitzer’s name does not appear in the document. But Ken Bennett, Arizona’s former secretary of state who’s serving as a spokesman for the audit, confirmed his involvement, though he said he’s unsure whether Pulitzer himself will be involved or whether the audit team will only be using his technology that Pulitzer claims can detect fraudulent ballots.

Pulitzer’s involvement comes despite any evidence whatsoever that fraudulent ballots were cast in the general election, despite a lack of confirmation that his technology works as he claims, and despite questions about his credibility. Bennett said Doug Logan, the owner and CEO of Cyber Ninjas, told him that he consulted with Pulitzer while designing the process used to test the ballots, a process that Bennett said will include other people’s technology as well. He said his understanding is that all 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County will be examined. Pulitzer, an inventor and author of dozens of books on treasure hunting, claims he invented technology that will determine whether the ink on the Maricopa County ballots he’ll examine was marked by human beings or by machines. He claims that examinations of the folds in the ballots will determine whether they were actually mailed to voters because fraudulently manufactured ballots that weren’t mailed will be devoid of certain physical markers.

Pulitzer does not appear to have any background in elections-related work. It’s unclear whether Pulitzer’s alleged technology has ever been used on ballots, or whether anyone has confirmed that it works. It’s also unclear why Senate President Karen Fann wants to test for fake or counterfeit ballots, given the lack of any evidence or credible allegations that there were any such problems in the election. Bennett said the Senate has not independently verified that Pulitzer’s technology actually does what he claims, but that other election officials he’s spoken with over the years have described similar technologies. “So, it doesn’t strike me as odd at all that he may have some technology to do the same thing,” Bennett said.

Fann’s own research that she used to select her audit team, which the Arizona Mirror obtained through a public records request, suggests that Pulitzer’s credibility was a concern. One undated document from her research includes three recommendations for potential auditors, one of whom was Pulitzer. It states that he “claims to know how to tell if ballots are valid by the way they are folded and marked,” and says he was recommended by “several people.” But it also includes the warning, “Credibility questionable.” Election officials in other states have been far more critical of Pulitzer. After Pulitzer claimed to have hacked into Georgia’s voting system during a legislative hearing, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said his allegation was false and dismissed him as a “failed inventor and failed treasure hunter.” Nonetheless, Stop the Steal advocates who falsely believe that the election was rigged against former President Donald Trump have long called for Pulitzer to have a role in the audit, and he has become a revered figure within the movement.

In a March 8 email to Fann, a person representing a group called We the People Alliance told Fann that its members “politely demand and insist” that she include Pulitzer on her audit team, noting that he testified with Trump attorney Rudy Giuiani. “Since he will do that for free, not choosing him in addition to anyone else you want to include, would be a cover up, pure and simple. The whole world is watching, and if opposed to this, you will never be re-elected as a Republican in the State of Arizona,” the email read. Emails provided to the Arizona Mirror as part of a public records request show that Fann and Pulitzer were in contact at least as early as Jan. 25, when he emailed her to thank her for that time earlier that day and to provide information on his background and his technology. Undated handwritten notes cite the need to combat “media misinformation” about Pulitzer.

The audit description doesn’t elaborate on exactly how “potentially counterfeit” ballots will be identified. But an affidavit that Pulitzer wrote in December as part of the litigation between Fann and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over the proposed audit describes technology that would do exactly that. Pulitzer explains in the affidavit that his technology identifies “kinematic markers” that would indicate whether a piece of paper has been handled, folded or processed in the mail, and determine whether “pristine ballots” without those markers “were fraudulently, or incorrectly, counted in the total vote tally for an election.” Examinations of the ink on ballots will show if they’ve been marked by a human with a pen or by a machine, he claimed. He said he could conduct his examination on electronic copies of the ballots, and that he could examine the paper ballots as well, though that would take longer. Speaking with the Mirror via text message, largely using voice-to-text, Pulitzer said he’s “received and onboarded” more than 2 million ballot images from elsewhere in the country and indicated that he’s tested paper ballots, as well, but non-disclosure agreements prohibit him from identifying the states, counties or other jurisdictions where he’s done this work. “Everything is highly documented, highly transparent, and duplicatable upon official report publication,” Pulitzer said, adding that he’s not able to discuss details until the reports are published.

Pulitzer wrote in his affidavit that his technology will flag “pristine” ballots that haven’t been folded, which indicates that they haven’t been mailed and therefore aren’t legitimate early ballots. But ballots cast in person on Election Day aren’t folded. Ballots cast in-person by voters on Election Day are stored in separate batches from early ballots, but the digital images aren’t separated by type of ballot. According to the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, 186,000 voters cast ballots in person on Election Day, while 158,000 people voted in-person at early voting centers in the county, 993,000 returned their early ballots by mail and 714,000 received ballots in the mail but dropped them off in person. Another 51,000 ballots cast at emergency voting centers, where ballots are also folded and placed into the same affidavit envelopes as other early ballots. Election integrity and administration experts were wary of the audit’s call for an investigation into potentially counterfeit ballots.

Tammy Patrick, a senior advisor to the elections program at the Democracy Fund, a voting advocacy organization, found Pulitzer’s involvement and the allegations he’s supposed to investigate problematic. First, she said the search for counterfeit ballots supports the baseless narrative that fake ballots are a problem. “I think it’s disconcerting that there is an ongoing narrative being supported that the counterfeiting of ballots, one, is a thing, which it has never been documented to my knowledge in a decade of election experience that the counterfeiting of ballots has ever been an issue in the United States,” Patrick said. Second, Patrick described the methodology behind Pulitzer’s technology as “somewhat questionable,” and said the audit needs to provide specific data about how it reaches conclusions regarding allegedly fraudulent ballots.
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🚨 Maricopa Arizona Audit Still Needs Volunteers!

If you're a registered voter in Maricopa County and would like to apply to be an observer, please sign up here ➡️ arizonaaudit.com/sign-up/

Please direct questions to Liaison Ken Bennett ➡️ twitter.com/ArizonaAudit/status/1384889479446495232

The audit of the Maricopa County ballots will include volunteer observers from all political parties as well as independents.

The audit will be conducted between April 22 - May 14 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Observers will serve in 6-7 hour shifts. There will be 2 shifts per day with 40 volunteers per shift for approximately 28 days. You can choose to work as many shifts as you like.

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Jovan's Telegram: https://t.me/JovanHuttonPulitzer Jovan has been saying recently he was offered $10 MILLION to go away and not reveal the fraud. :roll: If true, what a dope. :lol:

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who is maintaining the "chain of custody" and general ballot security while this is going on?

What is the actual relevance of this "audit?"
Is it being done by disinterested parties (like a national accounting firm)?

hahahahaha I crack myself up :?
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Hrm.

While it is probably a bit too high tech for his scam, I would not be too surprised if Pulitzer's mystery technology involves a basic image classifier where he fed it millions of ballots pre-supposing that most (or all) democrat (or some other feature) ones were fraudulent.
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Am I wrong to be suspicious of their techniques and findings?
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Slim Cognito wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:33 pm Am I wrong to be suspicious of their techniques and findings?
Secret techniques and a conspiracy theory regarding what the findings should be? what could go wrong?
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"Cyber Ninjas" doesn't have much depth on its website..

Nothing there that says they aren't just a bunch of undergrad CS dropouts.

And this technology that can "know" things from images of ballots is just the kind on AI/ML that is susceptible to model and training bias.

This might all be in the spirit of Dennis Montgomery.
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tek wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:02 pm Nothing there that says they aren't just a bunch of undergrad CS dropouts.

And this technology that can "know" things from images of ballots is just the kind on AI/ML that is susceptible to model and training bias.
This was exactly my thought. I've seen people get REALLY excited about these models and treat them like magic, at least till they try applying them on new data. His talk about having 'millions' of ballots already to test the system just screams 'budget ML model with bad training set'.. though his talk about creases and such reminds me of those old pre-ML scams that are little better than running through a bunch of photoshop filters till something looks wierd.
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neeneko wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:21 pm
tek wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:02 pm Nothing there that says they aren't just a bunch of undergrad CS dropouts.

And this technology that can "know" things from images of ballots is just the kind on AI/ML that is susceptible to model and training bias.
This was exactly my thought. I've seen people get REALLY excited about these models and treat them like magic, at least till they try applying them on new data. His talk about having 'millions' of ballots already to test the system just screams 'budget ML model with bad training set'.. though his talk about creases and such reminds me of those old pre-ML scams that are little better than running through a bunch of photoshop filters till something looks wierd.
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You nailed it, Kevin. It's the same sort of bogus, squishy conspiracy theory that grifters can rip off the marks (see: Matt Braynard, raised over $150K and got no results, still grifting on Telegram https://t.me/mattbraynard), promise the moon and then say any day now.
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This is amping up the nutz... from Joe Hoft (Jim's twin) at the Gateway House of Boys (and Pundits):
“They (the Democrats) Know That This Is a Corrupt System That They Have Been Trying to Cover Up” – AZ Rep Mark Finchem with Steve Bannon Discussing Maricopa County Audit
By Joe Hoft Published April 21, 2021 at 9:20pm

Arizona Representative Mark Finchem was on the War Room with Steve Bannon this morning. Below are some notables from Finchem during their discussion. This morning, Steve Bannon, host of the WarRoom Pandemic, interviewed Arizona Representative Mark Finchem (R) regarding the Arizona Senate’s upcoming forensic audit of the 2.1 million ballots from the November 3, 2020, Maricopa County election. Below is a condensed version of that discussion:

Senate President Karen Fann has provided strong, ethical, and fair leadership for the citizens of Arizona on this contentious issue.

Training will be taking place today and tomorrow, and the actual audit will begin on Friday and last for an estimated 40-day period, which includes the time needed to compile results and write the report.

Bannon has been interviewing Finchem on a regular basis since November 4, 2020, when our country went through the worst-ever case of a fraudulent, stolen election it has ever had, since its very founding.

Maricopa County, the fourth largest county in the United States and the largest County in Arizona is the first American county going through a detailed, secure, forensic audit of its 2020 election. There are at least five other states whose November 2020 election results are considered, by many American Republicans, Conservatives, and unaffiliated voters, to have been stolen: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada.

Today, Finchem was located at the site of the audit, the Coliseum, Arizona State Fairgrounds, located just north of Arizona’s capital city of Phoenix. The audit is taking place in the ice hockey arena and will use almost the entire length of that arena.

The WarRoom Pandemic has the best, continuing, factual, up-to-date coverage of the fraudulent, stolen 2020 election of any broadcast or Internet medium out there, and Bannon and his team have regularly updated the public on what patriots – the deplorables – are doing, on the ground in Arizona and Georgia and to a lesser extent since January, in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as updates on brand new election issues arising since November 3, 2020.

For breaking news on the 2020 election steal, these three hours a day with the WarRoom are well worth it, if not vital for Americans who love their country.

Steve Bannon: “We did win and now we’re going to prove that we won.”

Mark Finchem: “…they’re finishing the set-up … This is set up for trying to process 2.1 million ballots in the space of forty days and every single one of them by hand.”

SB: “This is a hand forensic audit, correct?”

MF: “That is correct. Hand inspection and re-tabulation of votes.”

SB: “Historic day, the transfer of 2.1 million physical ballots, machines, all of it. Hand forensic audit, also re-canvas.”

“We can’t go forward ‘til we find out what happened on November 3. This is what it’s all about. Let’s find out, exactly, what happened on November 3 and this is how you do it.”

MF: “We have both uniformed and plainclothes security throughout the building, around the perimeter, the fence-line, we got rings of security … all of the access up in the bleachers, that’s all been cut off.”

“What I want to do is show you the level of security that they are going to have on this. Not only is there a camera that is going to be looking down upon every ballot that is looked at, OK, you are also going to have an overhead camera that is going to watch …this entire thing is going to be recorded. So, if anybody has a beef with the way it’s done … you want to talk about transparency, this is exactly what transparency looks like.”

“Once the ballots have been counted they’re going to be moved over to this side of the arena so that they can be returned back to the custody of the state treasurer.”

Steve: “This is just a massive logistics operation and Mark, I got to tell you, this is one of the reasons you should be secretary of state. This is incredible what you guys have pulled together. I mean for citizens to come together and do this … this is citizen inspired, this is deplorable inspired. This is people saying no, no, no, no, no. We can’t go forward until we get to the bottom of November 3.”

Mark: “President Fann’s done a great job and this wouldn’t be happening, this is not a one-man show. Senator Sonny Borrelli, the Senate Whip, and Leo Biasiucci who’s the House Whip, they’ve had a major role in this, in trying to push this forward.”

“You would think that the Democrat Party would not only be doing a happy dance, they would be saying, we’re going to get in your grill and tell you this is how we beat you. But they’re not doing that. In fact, they’re spending a lot of resources to try and fight this.”

SB: “There’s a lot of rumors out there that they’re going go into federal court and get some sort of TRO [Temporary Restraining Order], is there any anticipation out there that they are going to actually try to get into the legal system today and shut down this entire operation?”

MF: “I’d put nothing past these guys. They know that this is a corrupt system that they have been trying to cover up. Now, whether or not the corruption is incompetence or criminality, that remains to be seen.”

“The joy of our system is that the people have a right to scrutinize the election. You don’t see that in Communist countries. I’m pretty sure you’re not going to see that in Chinese Communist Party-land.”

“There’s an organization called the Guardian Defense Network and if people want to see more about that they can go to www.fightback.network. It’s a fairly new site, it’s a 501(c)(4), application in, if they want to give to help support this effort. Guardian Defense Fund has actually stepped up and is paying money for additional security at the site.

We could not get the governor to authorize DPS or national guard to give us site security, but we have security nonetheless. Private security firms, we have some law enforcement, off-duty officers, and like I said, some of them are in plainclothes, some of them are in uniform, you’re just not going to know who you’re dealing with.”

“Training will commence either late today or sometime tomorrow and then we’ll be off to the races on Friday.”

SB: “The forty-day clock starts ticking on Friday morning?”

MF: “That’s correct. Their target date is forty days so that they can have at least ten days to compile the information and an additional ten days to finish the report and get that into the hands of [Arizona State Senate] President Karen Fann.”

SB: “What’s the best way for our audience who are activists, they want to follow every second of this, what’s the best way to do that?”

MF: “They can follow me on Gab: azhoneybadger. They can follow me on Parler: markfinchem.

Most of this information’s going to appear in my weekly journal and they can just send an email to: [email protected] and in the subject line all you have to do is write journal and we will see to it that you get an opportunity to subscribe to it … I’m probably going to put that out on Sunday’s and Wednesday’s so that we can keep people up-to-date, but if there’s is a breaking piece that we need to get out, we’ll send out a breaking piece.”

SB: “Mark, thank you and God bless you and make sure you tell everybody out there the deplorables have their back, couldn’t be more excited about the work.”

Finchem’s discussion with Bannon begins at the 39:20 mark in the video below:





One man who’s been a big force behind getting this Maricopa County forensic audit off the ground, keeping the public outside of Arizona updated, and also in supporting the process of a factual, honest, transparent audit in Arizona – with the help of many, many others, as he would be quick to say – Mark Finchem, has announced his candidacy for Arizona Secretary of State in 2022.

The audit we all have been fighting for will soon be in progress.
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Since this is in the hands of trumper GOP legislators, I'm guessing they'll do their own oversight? After the count is done and ballots returned, will they come out with a whiteboard and a sharpie and write tRUMP WON!!!! expecting intelligent people to take their word? And, if so, what are the options to expose their methodology to sunlight?
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I suspect that a draft of the final report has already been written. They're just waiting to get some "real" numbers to put in it.
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Here's the answer to this ridiculous partisan exercise:
Arizona Dems file suit to stop Senate audit of Maricopa County election
BY DANNY SHAPIRO APRIL 22, 2021 AT 4:34 PM

PHOENIX — The Arizona Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Thursday aimed at halting the state Senate audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County. The suit, brought forward by Maricopa County supervisor Steve Gallardo, alleges the audit is led by partisan contractors hired by the Republican-controlled Senate. Gallardo, the lone Democrat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, said he was also concerned about ballot security and confidentiality. “The sole reason for this lawsuit and injunctions is to protect the sanctity of the ballots and more importantly to preserve voters’ privacy from a sham audit that has been corrupted by agitators and conspiracy theorists,” Gallardo said in a tweet. “This corrupted process will not be transparent, dark money influencers have hand-picked the folks to observe and witness the ‘audit’ that will be conducted by an uncertified and unqualified group.”

The suit calls for a temporary restraining order to prevent the audit, which was scheduled to start after the 2.1 million ballots were carted to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Thursday. It’s the latest disagreement leaders have had regarding the Senate audit, which isn’t the first to take place in Arizona following Democrat Joe Biden’s win in November. The Republican-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors denied use of their facilities after losing a court fight set off by a Senate subpoena for the election materials. They insist the election Biden won was conducted fairly and counted accurately. Senate Democrats oppose the effort to recount the ballots of the long ago certified election and have said they won’t participate.

The operation will be live-streamed by the pro-Trump, right-wing television network OANN, which helped raise some of the money used to finance the audit and recount. Republican Senate President Karen Fann has hired Florida-based Cyber Ninjas — a firm led by a backer of unfounded election fraud theories — to oversee the audit, including a hand recount of ballots. The Senate is paying $150,000, and an OANN host helped raise at least another $150,000 for the effort. The Senate will pay only for electricity and personnel at the Coliseum, which it rented starting Monday for four weeks. It also must provide security. Supporters of former President Donald Trump have cast doubt on the Maricopa County election results since Biden’s narrow win last year. But there has been no evidence of widespread fraud. Judges rejected several lawsuits alleging irregularities in the count.
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The emergency hearing is at 11am, here's the complaint:





https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-cont ... xC217C.pdf


Livestream of the "audit": https://azaudit.org/

AZ Republic article with background: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/po ... 343675002/
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... since Biden’s narrow win last year.
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Foggy wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:59 am
... since Biden’s narrow win last year.
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Trump received 306 electoral votes in 2016 and it was considered by him as a landslide. Biden received 306 electoral votes in 2020 and it is a "narrow win." Go figure.
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Atticus Finch wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:52 pm
Foggy wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:59 am
... since Biden’s narrow win last year.
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Trump received 306 electoral votes in 2016 and it was considered by him as a landslide. Biden received 306 electoral votes in 2020 and it is a "narrow win." Go figure.
Yes 2016 he won with 306 EV while LOSING the popular vote by ~3,000,000. Biden won 2020 with 306 EV also WINNING the popular vote by ~7-8,000,000. Which win was 'narrow'?
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Foggy wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:59 am
... since Biden’s narrow win last year.
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To be fair, the vote was narrow* ... in Maricopa County: Biden prevailed, 49.8% to 47.7%. Arizona itself was very narrow: 49.36% to 49.06%

* Or, narrow-ish; a two-percentage-point margin is close, but not recount close.
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Shirley these Rs have considered how they’ll handle it if the audit matches the original results. That’s why I don’t trust them. No way they’ll admit they were wrong.
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Also, too, you know that if the parties were reversed the R side would be howling louder than a train whistle.

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Thread:
https://twitter.com/JenAFifield/status/ ... 7664724995

Jen Fifield@JenAFifield

I noticed the counters had blue pens. Supposed to only have red when you’re around ballots since ballots can read black and blue ink.

Those blue pens the counters have could potentially be used to mark the ballots.

I pointed this out to Doug Logan with Cyber Ninjas...
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neonzx wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 2:15 pm Thread:
https://twitter.com/JenAFifield/status/ ... 7664724995

Jen Fifield@JenAFifield

I noticed the counters had blue pens. Supposed to only have red when you’re around ballots since ballots can read black and blue ink.

Those blue pens the counters have could potentially be used to mark the ballots.

I pointed this out to Doug Logan with Cyber Ninjas...
1:26 PM · Apr 23, 2021 from Phoenix, AZ·Twitter for iPhone
Oopsie! Hey! This ballot is marked for both trump and Biden. Better throw it out!
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Maricopa County judge orders 'pause' on 2020 election audit after Democrats file lawsuit
The "pause" will be from 5 p.m. Friday until noon Monday. The Arizona Democratic Party must post a $1 million bond to protect the audit team from financial losses.
Author: 12 News, Brahm Resnik Published: 12:19 PM MST April 23, 2021 Updated: 12:19 PM MST April 23, 2021

PHOENIX — A Maricopa County judge paused an election audit being conducted by Arizona Senate Republicans Friday after state Democrats filed a lawsuit to block the audit. The "pause" will be from 5 p.m. Friday until noon Monday. The Arizona Democratic Party must post a $1 million bond to protect the audit team from financial losses.

Maricopa County delivered the first shipment of ballot-counting machines Wednesday for Arizona Senate Republicans’ audit, but only after the Senate agreed to shield the county from any legal or financial liability connected to the audit, according to documents obtained by 12 News. One particular focus of concern for the county: The work of audit leader Cyber Ninjas, whose owner has promoted false claims about the 2020 election. Some of those claims have targeted the owner of the county's ballot-counting machines.

The multimillion-dollar machines were loaded onto three trucks at the county’s election headquarters Wednesday morning. They were then driven in a convoy for three miles to Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the State Fairgrounds, with undercover sheriff’s deputies providing security along the route. The handover of the machines on Wednesday and 2.1 million county ballots on Thursday are part of Senate Republicans’ unprecedented audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 presidential vote, won by Democrat Joe Biden.

Later in the afternoon, the Arizona Democratic Party and the sole Democrat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors are suing in an effort to block the Arizona Senate’s ballot recount and audit of the county's 2020 election. The lawsuit alleges Republican Senate President Karen Fann pledged to a judge that the Senate would protect ballot and voter privacy before he ruled the Senate could access 2.1 million voted ballots and the tabulation machines. Instead, they say she is outsourcing the recount to a biased third party and putting election integrity at risk. The recount starts Friday. Fann says the ballots are secure and protected.

BREAKING Maricopa County judge "pauses" election audit at 5pm Friday until noon Monday. AZ Democratic Party must post $1 million bond to protect audit team from financial losses.
— Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) April 23, 2021
https://www.12news.com/article/news/loc ... 60dfd52c96

Of course the disgraced twice-impeached guy has to open his mouth; via Mike Flynn:


Gen. Flynn, [23.04.21 15:22]
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America.

So many people would like to thank the brave and patriotic Republican State Senators from Arizona for the incredible job they are doing in exposing the large scale Voter Fraud which took place in the 2020 Presidential Election. Their tireless efforts have led to a massive recount, ballot examination, and full forensic audit, undertaken by experts retained by the State Senate, with results to be announced within six weeks. The Democrats, upon hearing the news of the Court Order, have sent 73 lawyers to Arizona in an effort to stop this recount and full transparency because THEY KNOW WHAT THEY DID! The Democrats are desperate for the FRAUD to remain concealed because, when revealed, the Great States of Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, New Hampshire, and the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, would be forced to complete the work already started. The Arizona recount and examination will be on live TV (OAN) for all to watch.

Why are the Democrats so desperate to stop this Election Fraud from being revealed? That answer is obvious! The Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has been shockingly of zero help to the State Senate. He wants to “pretend” the election was free and fair. What are he and the Maricopa County Commissioners trying to hide? Our country needs the truth of the scam 2020 Election to be exposed. If it is not, just as if we have “no borders,” we cannot be a Great Nation. Honest elections are America’s Heart and Soul. We must never allow this to happen to our Great Country again. Thank you State Senators and others in Arizona for commencing this full forensic audit. I predict the results will be startling!

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NBC wrote: UPDATE: The Arizona Democratic Party will not post the $1 million bond as requested by a Maricopa County judge. Therefore, the audit will be allowed to continue.
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bob wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:27 pm
NBC wrote: UPDATE: The Arizona Democratic Party will not post the $1 million bond as requested by a Maricopa County judge. Therefore, the audit will be allowed to continue.
Hm. The DNC wouldn't back that with the funds? $1M sounded excessive to put up for a mere 3-day TRO.
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