How the Arizona Election 'Audit' Has Already Been Compromised - American Oversight

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NEW: Officials involved in the sham “audit” in Arizona said recently that they expected to announce results in the next few weeks.

We already know enough about the operation’s biased origins to call into question any purported “findings.” THREAD

How the Arizona Election 'Audit' Has Already Been Compromised - American Oversight
Despite the Arizona Senate's secrecy, enough is already known about the sham ballot review's biased origins and the involvement of conspiracy theorists to know that any purported "findings" will be...
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9:29 AM · Jul 22, 2021

https://www.americanoversight.org/how-the-arizona-election-audit-has-already-been-compromised

Efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona have culminated in a partisan election “audit” of votes cast in Maricopa County, instigated by the state Senate’s Republican majority. Officials have indicated that results of this recount and review will be announced in late July or early August. Despite the Senate’s secrecy, enough is already known about the operation’s biased origins, the involvement of conspiracy theorists, and problematic voter outreach to call into question any purported “findings.”

On July 15, observers got a preview of what any final pronouncements of “audit” results will look like during a hearing that was heavy on insinuation and light on actual evidence. That dynamic has been in play from the beginning, from the earliest fear-mongering about voter fraud and the post-election attempts to cast doubt on the veracity of vote totals to officials’ ongoing and unconvincing promises of the audit’s credibility.

Besides the total lack of any evidence of widespread voter fraud in Arizona or elsewhere — an absence that, of course, continues to this day — an early signal of the audit’s untrustworthiness and bias was the hiring of the cybersecurity firm Cyber Ninjas to oversee the operation. Led by CEO Doug Logan, a vocal supporter of the “Stop the Steal” movement who repeatedly circulated lies that the 2020 election had been rigged, the firm has no experience conducting election audits. The months that have followed showed the consequences of this inexperience, with the process beset by embarrassing and alarming issues, such as serious security breaches, a deference to outlandish conspiracy theories, and error-prone methods.

These publicly reported issues are just what is known so far about the “audit,” thanks to the Arizona Senate’s secrecy and its refusal to turn over records that could provide important information, including about its funding. American Oversight has sued the Senate for records, with a Maricopa County Superior Court judge having ruled on July 15 that the case’s “compelling public interest demand[ed] public disclosure and public scrutiny.” 

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1. "expected to announce results in the next few weeks"

Would that be two weeks? This sounds so familiar. I just can't imagine where we've heard it before.