Category: audit

Arizona Senate Issues Fresh Subpoenas for 2020 Election Audit

Arizona senators issued a new subpoena to the state’s largest county on July 26 for materials related to the 2020 election. Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Arizona Senate Judiciary Chairman Warren Petersen have ordered Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors to turn over ballot envelopes or ballot envelope images, voter records, and routers or router…


Arizona Senate Audit Liaison Considers Stepping Down After Being Barred From Review

The Arizona Senate’s liaison for the 2020 election audit taking place in the state’s largest county is considering resigning after being barred from the audit on July 23. Ken Bennett, the liaison and a former Republican Arizona secretary of state, said Monday he was blocked from entering the audit last week because people there were…


Texas Rep. Introduces Bill to Audit 13 Most-Populous Counties’ Election Results

A Texas House representative announced Monday he’s introducing a bill for a forensic audit of the most populous counties’ election results. According to the text of House Bill 241, introduced by Republican state Rep. Steve Toth, forensic reviews of counties with more than 415,000 population should be carried out before Nov. 1, 2021, and they…


Arizona Senate Leader: State’s 11 Electors Cannot Be Recalled After Maricopa Audit

Arizona Senate Majority Leader Karen Fann, a Republican, said the state Senate doesn’t have the ability to recall electors for the Nov. 3 election, after a fellow Republican lawmaker called for new elections. Fann told One America News Network (OANN), which has been covering the audit of Maricopa County, that the upper chamber has the…


Arizona Senate President: State’s 11 Electors Cannot Be Recalled After Maricopa Audit

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the state Senate doesn’t have the ability to recall electors for the Nov. 3 election, after a fellow Republican lawmaker called for new elections. Fann told One America News Network (OANN), which has been covering the audit of Maricopa County, that the upper chamber has the ability…


Arizona Senate President: Maricopa County Being ‘Coy’ on Auditing Certification

Officials in Arizona’s largest county have repeatedly described firms conducting a forensic election audit there as uncertified, even promoting the idea that they lacked certification from an agency that does not certify auditors. In response to the audit teams seeking more items from Maricopa County to complete the state Senate-ordered audit, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors…


Maricopa County Auditors Seek Ballot Envelope Images, Splunk Logs After Discovering Discrepancies

Teams conducting a forensic audit in Arizona’s largest county on Thursday said they want more items to complete their review, which has turned up several major discrepancies. The auditors, led by Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, want ballot envelope images, router images, splunk logs, hard drives that contain information about the 2020 election in Maricopa County, and…


Facts Matter (July 14): Forensic Audit Finds That Ballot Totals Don’t Match Maricopa County’s Numbers

Just yesterday, the Arizona Senate President announced that there is a discrepancy in the number of ballots counted for the 2020 election. She said that the number of ballots tallied during the forensic audit does not match the official total that was given by Maricopa County. Meanwhile, over in Texas, House Democrats wanted to derail voting…


Arizona Senate President Says 2020 Election Audit’s Ballot Count Doesn’t Match Maricopa Tally

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann on Tuesday said that the 2020 presidential election audit’s ballot count led by Cyber Ninjas differed from the Maricopa County tally, and that the discrepancy prompted the election review team to acquire new machines to recount the ballots. “They haven’t released a number yet,” Fann, a Republican, said during in…


Arizona Senate Conducting New Count of Maricopa County Ballots

The ballots cast in Arizona’s largest county in the 2020 election will be counted for a third time on orders from the state’s Senate. Nearly 2.1 million ballots submitted in Maricopa County for the presidential contest were tabulated, as normal, by election officials. They were recounted by hand by audit teams hired by the Arizona…