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

[Gregg]

It would have been better if the knutsacs who voted for it hd to pay it personally.

[raison de arizona]

Another idjit in the AZ Senate opens her mouth.


People are apparently still listening to Ron Watkins.

[raison de arizona]

US House Committee on Oversight and Reform starts an investigation...

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I especially like #2

Edit: Full letter.

[RTH10260]

Damng - the report on the "audit" gets delayed again cause all manpower is needed to invent a reply

[raison de arizona]

I guess the exclusive outlet to learn about the audit is still... OAN.

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[Luke]

Cofeve, thanks on the letter. #6 about the bamboo & UV light was funny too.

Does the Congressional Committee have the power to require CN to answer? If they don't, what happens? Would love to see them hauled in for questioning on CSPAN.

This is going to be great fun. MAGAts are already going nuts. Going to remind them about BENGHAZI!! which yielded ZERO results and ask them... if this Audit were run like this but by all DEMOCRATS, how would they be reacting?





Here's the press release.

Chairs Maloney and Raskin Launch Investigation into Privately Run ‘Audit’ of Arizona 2020 Election Results
Jul 14, 2021 Press Release

Washington, D.C. (July 14, 2021)— Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Douglas Logan, Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Ninjas, requesting information on his companies’ role in the “audit” of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona in the 2020 election.

“Americans’ right to vote is protected by the Constitution and is the cornerstone of our democratic system of government,” the Chairs wrote. “The Committee is seeking to determine whether the privately funded audit conducted by your company in Arizona protects the right to vote or is instead an effort to promote baseless conspiracy theories, undermine confidence in America’s elections, and reverse the result of a free and fair election for partisan gain.”

In April 2021, the Arizona State Senate launched an audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, despite clear, bipartisan consensus among county officials and outside experts that the election results were valid, that no significant fraud occurred, and that, following completion of a hand count and forensic audits by two nonpartisan election firms, the additional audit served no legitimate purpose.

Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based cyber security firm, was chosen by Arizona State Senate Republicans to lead a team of private companies to conduct the audit, despite its lack of federal accreditation and election experience. Cyber Ninjas reportedly offered to conduct this audit for a fraction of the actual cost, and reports indicate that substantial outside funding has come from partisan dark money groups, including many connected to former President Trump’s advisors and allies.

Since beginning the audit work, Cyber Ninjas has been accused of engaging in mismanagement and insecure practices that jeopardized the integrity of ballots and voting machines and could lead to significant errors. One former election official, asked to observe the audit by the Arizona Secretary of State, stated, “In more than a decade working on elections, audits and recounts across the country, I’ve never seen one this mismanaged.”

Douglas Logan, CEO and Principal Consultant of Cyber Ninjas, has repeatedly embraced election conspiracy theories, alleging on social media that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against former President Donald Trump and working with associates of former President Trump in a lawsuit that sought to overturn the election result in Michigan.

The Committee’s letter requests documents and communications related to Cyber Ninja’s audit procedures, funding sources, and related issues by July 28, 2021.

Click here to read the letter. https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democ ... 0Audit.pdf

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Important ETA, woo hoo:

Michael Durkin @mdurkin86 Replying to @Orly_licious @Garrett_Archer and 4 others
The committee's broad jurisdiction and leg. authority make it one of the most influential and powerful panels in the House. Its chair is one of only three in the House with the authority to issue subpoenas without a committee vote or consultation with the ranking mem. So yah!

[bob]

Having said that, the previous administration reinforced the power of delay. So objections to subpoenas, with the intent to tie up the request in the courts, are likely.

Especially if you believe the House will flip in 2022.

[raison de arizona]

And Mike Flynn has entered the room... This is a 501(c)4 non-profit that looks like it is set up to ostensibly fund all the pootrait "audits" going on.


The money is going to Naples, FL, but the domains are registered out of Canada?

[Gregg]

Having said that, the previous administration reinforced the power of delay. So objections to subpoenas, with the intent to tie up the request in the courts, are likely.

Especially if you believe the House will flip in 2022.

The DOJ and assorted Executive branch offices can afford to fight every decision and draw it out, I doubt CN's can.

[bob]

I doubt CN's can.

Its patrons can.

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

I wonder why it took them so long to announce the discrepancy in the number of ballots they received. I mean, they did count them before starting the audit, right?

Right?

[woodworker]

The "request" is clearly within the Committee's ballpark. I expect CN to cry privilege, confidential, etc., for the Committee to promptly issue a subpoena, and play very hard ball on this. And there is no legitimate excuse for turning over that information. Hold Logan et al in contempt of Congress and let him visit the Sergeant at Arm's office.

[raison de arizona]

Big news? Complaints about the investigators being investigated? Tune in and see!

[Luke]

The America Project is Patrick Byrne's affair, Flynn is a guest grifter.

Re Karen's conference tomorrow:





And there's a Patrick Byrne fan who is quite upset. She got stuck on the use of "grifter" so gave her some other examples.









And some stomping:

[Luke]

The link to tomorrow's 10AM circus event is: https://www.azleg.gov/liveproceedings/

07/15/2021 - Senate Hearing on the Election Audit in Maricopa County
07/15/2021 — 10:00 AM

Interestingly, Jim Hoft at his Gateway House of Boys simply announces the hearing, he adds zero editorial. That just never happens over there. Instead, this is his focus:

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Some stuff from Telegram. They are all over the place there.

National Audit Watch Channel, [14.07.21 22:52]
YOU ARE INVITED TO WATCH THE ARIZONA SENATE HEARING ON ELECTION AUDIT IN MARICOPA COUNTY

WHAT:
Senate Hearing on the progress of the election audit in Maricopa County. Senate is open to the public and media outlets. There is limited seating, but anyone can watch live on the link provided below. There will be no public testimony.
WHO:
Senator Karen Fann Senate President
Senator Warren Petersen Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary
Ken Bennett Senate Liaison
Doug Logan Cyber Ninjas
Ben Cotton CyFIR

WHEN: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 10 am MST*

WHERE: Live streamed at https://www.azleg.gov/liveproceedings/

Must See Live Stream of the Year!

National Audit Watch Channel: @AuditWatch
Arizona Audit Watch Channel: @AZAuditWatch

Invite Link: https://www.azsenaterepublicans.com/pos ... opa-county

Maricopa County is on offense. It still is wild that these are all Republicans fighting. If it ends up as nothing, like we've seen before, Karen Fann covered herself early by saying she didn't expect any problems. Ken Bennett basically said the same. Ducey won't even discuss it.

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They're going nuts on Telegram.

Crazy Aunt, [14.07.21 23:51]
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I wonder if this is what the AZ Senate meeting is about?? The Board buying new DOMINION machines for the next election??? I wonder if this is it or if they will be announcing any news on the audit. God I hope it's both!!

Here's what they're trying to sell. Who the hell is this guy? Nobody knows but it doesn't matter because it reinforces their bogus narrative. The number of foreign spies and disinformation experts on Telegram must be staggering.

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* Shouldn't it be MDT not MST? Mountain has daylight savings, don't they? Writing at midnight from EDT, Alexa says it's 9pm in Phoenix. So it should be 1pm EDT tomorrow for the clown show. Please correct if wrong.

[Luke]

On Squidney's Telegram, this has gotta sting

Sidney Powell , [14.07.21 22:52]
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors agreed today to allocate an additional $2.9 million to their current leasing agreement with Dominion Voting Systems. The contract valued at $9 million runs through July 2022 and will replace voting equipment sent to the audit that the board does not wish to recertify.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/m ... 01477.html

L.M.A.O. (But sorry AZ taxpayers)

Maricopa County Approves Millions to Obtain New Election Equipment From Dominion
BY ZACHARY STIEBER July 14, 2021 Updated: July 14, 2021
Supervisors in Arizona’s largest county on Wednesday approved an amended contract with Dominion Voting Systems that will see the company send over fresh election equipment.

Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors opted to lease new voting system tabulators to replace machines examined by auditors hired by the Arizona Senate. The board, composed of four Republicans and one Democrat, agreed in a meeting to allocate an additional $2.9 million to the contract with Dominion Voting Systems. The contract now totals $9 million. It began in June 2019 and runs through July 2022 and has the county leasing voting equipment from Dominion. The Canada-based company provides such equipment to 28 states and Puerto Rico.

The company will provide 385 new precinct tabulators, or machines that count ballots at precincts, and 9 new central counters, as well as the hardware required to run them. “The ‘Subpoenaed Equipment’ will no longer be used by the county and the county is authorizing the contractor to remove, inspect and properly dispose of the ‘Subpoenaed Equipment,'” the amendment states. “The county will acquire new voting system components to replace the Subpoenaed Equipment pursuant to the existing lease terms of the Agreement.”

Board Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, said needing to spend more money on the contract was frustrating but necessary after auditors took custody of the machines. “The frustrating thing is, those were perfectly good machines which passed all of our accuracy tests from the time we first got them in 2019. The taxpayer paid good money for them, but now this equipment will have to be decommissioned because the Senate didn’t take our warnings about chain-of-custody seriously,” Sellers said in a statement. “When Senate leadership chose novices to conduct their audit rather than reputable, certified companies, they wasted an expensive investment that had served Maricopa County voters well in 2019 and 2020.”

The Arizona Senate hired Cyber Ninjas to oversee the audit. That choice has been criticized by board members and other audit opponents, who point to the company’s lack of experience on election reviews. Cyber Ninjas and senators have said the companies involved in the audit are committed to a fair process and include companies with audit experience. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, in May urged the county to get new machines because of concerns “that the chain of custody, a critical security tenet, has been compromised and election officials do not know what was done to the machines while under Cyber Ninjas’ control.”

The county announced last month that it would replace the machines, citing the same concerns. The Arizona Senate proposed auditing the ballots and equipment while they were in the county’s possession but the county refused, forcing audit teams to conduct the review in buildings on the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix. Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the machines were not tampered with during the audit. “If their experts can’t prove the machines have not been tampered with, then how does the [Secretary of State’s office] or County Elections certify the machines before every audit to make sure the machines haven’t been tampered with?” she asked in June. The vote came a day after Fann said auditors’ ballot count ended with a different number than the county. The state Senate is conducting its own count this week on machines it obtained expressly for the purpose. The third number will be used against the other two figures, Ken Bennett, a former Republican Arizona Secretary of State who is serving as the body’s audit liaison, told The Epoch Times. Auditors plan to finish their report on the audit in August.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/m ... 01477.html

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* Shouldn't it be MDT not MST? Mountain has daylight savings, don't they? Writing at midnight from EDT, Alexa says it's 9pm in Phoenix. So it should be 1pm EDT tomorrow for the clown show. Please correct if wrong.

There is three hours difference between EDT and MST, so 1pm EDT is correct.

But no, Arizona does not observe daylight saving time. It is not controlled by the time zone. MST is correct.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/transport ... ation.aspx

All states but Hawaii and Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) observe DST. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands also do not observe DST. Federal law allows a state to exempt itself from observing daylight saving time, upon action by the state legislature, but does not allow the permanent observance of DST.

MST is the same as PDT. So, it is the same time of day in Arizona (outside the Navajo Nation) as it is here in California when we are on daylight saving.

[Luke]

Thank you thank you! That is a really great piece of information, it would be an excellent test or trivia question. Only got it because of Alexa, asked what time is it in Phoenix and she gave me the three-hour difference (10AM MST will be 1PM EDT). No wonder they are messed up in Arizona! <g,d & r>

[raison de arizona]

Eh, who wants an extra hour of daylight in the desert during summer? Nobody.

[northland10]

I prefer slight modification

[(6 x 5) ÷ 3 + 11] x 2

[raison de arizona]

press release for today's "update"

Personally, I'm hoping for fireworks on the oversight committee. Here's the live link, which is completely dead right now. The whole AZ leg site is apparently dead right now. Maybe they took the routers! (Joke, that would be Maricopa county, not AZ Leg.)
https://www.azleg.gov/liveproceedings/

[Jim]

Maybe they took the routers! (Joke, that would be Maricopa county, not AZ Leg.)

As incompetent as this fraudit is, wouldn't surprise me at all if they got confused and grabbed the wrong routers.

[raison de arizona]

The wingnuts are crowing this morning. I would say that I wonder if they know something about the "update" that we don't, except I know that isn't the case. They're just wingnuts.

Note we've moved from #stopthesteal to #reversethesteal.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

That tweet sounds like bravado to me.
P.S. Send money.

[raison de arizona]

No questions, please!