The Arizona Senate will hold a hearing on July 15 on the progress of the election audit in Maricopa county, according to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann. The hearing, announced on short notice, will feature updates from Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and CyFIR CEO Ben Cotton, the heads of the companies conducting the audit. “It’s an update and briefing not the appropriate time for any testifying,” Fann wrote on Twitter in response to a message from a reporter who pointed out that the public will not be given an opportunity to testify. Fann said on July 13 that the number of ballots counted in the audit of the 2020 general election differs from the tally by Maricopa County officials, and that the discrepancy has prompted the election review team to acquire new machines to recount the ballots. “They haven’t released a number yet,” Fann, a Republican, told KTAR Radio. …