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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMonths behind schedule, Arizona election auditors extend lease again
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Brahm Resnik
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'In my opinion the audit is just starting': Now entering 3rd month & out of Coliseum, this is just the end of the beginning for Arizona Senate Republicans' 2020 election review.
Months behind schedule, Arizona election auditors extend lease again
The hand counts done, but in my opinion the audit is just starting, said Ken Bennett, the state Senate's liaison to the audit.
nbcnews.com
8:49 PM · Jul 1, 2021
Brahm Resnik
@brahmresnik
'In my opinion the audit is just starting': Now entering 3rd month & out of Coliseum, this is just the end of the beginning for Arizona Senate Republicans' 2020 election review.
Months behind schedule, Arizona election auditors extend lease again
The hand counts done, but in my opinion the audit is just starting, said Ken Bennett, the state Senate's liaison to the audit.
nbcnews.com
8:49 PM · Jul 1, 2021
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/months-behind-schedule-arizona-election-auditors-extend-lease-again-n1272948?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Arizona Senate Republicans extraordinarily partisan and controversial ballot review again extended their lease this week, adding at least two more weeks to the already delayed operation.
The contractors, led by cybersecurity firm Cyber Ninjas, had planned to pack up and finish their review remotely, Ken Bennett, the Arizona Senate liaison to the audit, said as recently as last week. But on Thursday he said auditors had decided to seek more time to review ballots and machinery in person.
The hand counts done, but in my opinion the audit is just starting, Bennett told NBC News, noting that the reviewers had only recently obtained documents they consider critical to the count.
Arizona's election results have been audited multiple times since Nov. 3 by the state and county, and the system was found to be accurate and secure. President Joe Biden won the state by around 10,000 votes. But in December, state Senate Republicans took the unusual step of going to court to take custody of the county's ballots and voting machines. They then turned the materials over to third-party contractors with little experience in elections, launching a first-of-its-kind review that Republican leaders said would restore trust in elections and help the lawmakers write new election laws. The so-called "audit" has been slammed by experts as a bungled, amateurish effort with results that cannot be trusted.
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Months behind schedule, Arizona election auditors extend lease again (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2021
OP
Graft can be a profitable racket, and you run the con as long as the mark(s) are amenable to paying
Hugh_Lebowski
Jul 2021
#1
"We hope all auditors finish their remedial arithmetic classes this fall"
struggle4progress
Jul 2021
#4
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Graft can be a profitable racket, and you run the con as long as the mark(s) are amenable to paying
Seems like a basic concept they'd teach at Trump University
Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)2. Exactly.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)3. As said above, as long as they have rubes willing to pay them,
This will go on.
And then they will say they think they found proof of fraud but need more information and funding.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)4. "We hope all auditors finish their remedial arithmetic classes this fall"