Arizona’s Senate president on Friday told the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that the 2020 election audit taking place in Phoenix is protected by “thorough protocols.” “After some early and well publicized challenges, the security protocols at the audit site have been made very strong,” Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, told Pamela Karlan, a DOJ official, in a letter. The roughly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the presidential election, along with tabulators and other equipment used last year, are subject to continuous video surveillance, which is live streamed to the general public online, and being watched by armed personnel 24 hours a day. Additionally, every entrance to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where the audit is taking place, is locked and manned by guards, with an additional guard posted adjacent to the area in which the ballots are stored. “All ballot review and processing occurs within …