The Arizona Senate’s audit of Maricopa County’s election results is still underway and a number of pro-Trump and conspiracy-minded groups are raising money for it, though it is unclear how much money has been raised, how much the audit will cost and who will receive that money. Trump, as she understood it, was claiming “that the server that was used to hack the DNC was somehow in Ukraine or moved to Ukraine, controlled by the Ukrainians,” she said during a deposition for the House impeachment inquiry. Ukraine told Congress that she was “surprised and dismayed” by a series of requests President Donald Trump made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that included mentions of a conspiracy theory involving CrowdStrike and a server in Ukraine, according to testimony released Monday. For five years starting in 2014, DHS told the tribes that they were eligible for the payments, only to reverse course in May. That disparity will seed only more doubts and questions about the result-and the audit’s sloppy handling of ballots means that the evidence may be irreversibly tainted ahead of any future count.
Reality: Ballot handling procedures protect against intentional or unintentional ballot destruction. Hobbs in her letter also took aim at a number of procedures that she said “appear better suited for chasing conspiracy theories than as a part of a professional audit,” which included using UV lights to search for watermarks, measuring the thickness of ballots, searching for folds in ballots, and looking at ballots under a microscope. “I’m not sure what compelled you to oversee this audit, but I’d like to assume you took this role with the best of intentions,” she told Bennett in the letter. It is odd indeed that the left, which is so convinced that Joe Biden won in a fair and fraud-free election does not want to embrace a forensic audit, the work product of which will also be available for all to scrutinize, that might prove to the opposition that Joe won. The pattern indicates that these precincts were manipulated and votes were removed from President Trump and allocated to Joe Biden. The Arizona Senate said that its “broad and detailed” audit “will validate every area of the voting process” and includes, but is not limited to, scanning all the ballots, a full hand recount, auditing the voter registration and votes cast, the vote counts, and the electronic voting system.
The November 12 hand recount produced a 300-vote increase for all 4 Republican candidates and a 99-vote decrease for her. Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who was elected in 2020 and now leads the elections department, responded to Fann’s claims at a Board of Supervisors’ special meeting on Monday. The firm that was hired by the Arizona Senate to oversee the count, Cyber Ninjas, which has no evident qualifications and is run by a “stop the steal” activist, touts “the systemic, transparent method we have created to ensure Arizonan and American confidence in the election process and results.” In Wisconsin, where Republican legislators are launching an Arizona-style investigation, as well as in other states that have moved to restrict voting, such as Texas, Georgia, and Florida, leaders have similarly argued that such efforts are necessary to guarantee faith in elections. “Whether implementing controls like multifactor authentication and intrusion detection systems or exercising incident response, the progress in securing elections is real.” He added that “we are also working with government and industry partners to build resilience among the public in the face of our adversaries’ use of false and misleading information to sow division and undermine confidence in the election.” Today, Krebs will visit Pennsylvania – home of a splashy, freshly signed election law – to tout Election Audit security efforts with state officials.
As the Arizona Senate forensic audit progresses with their mission to prove or disprove that there was either fraud or incompetence in the election just passed, promotors of propaganda like Joe Scarborough and Vanity Fair’s Eric Lutz recite the same threadbare narrative hoping that someone will believe the tripe that they serve up. As seen in the clipping below, the Verified Department of Homeland Security’s Account in the Associated Press’s “OneWire” content accumulation service speaks about the DHS’s Election Audit and how it determined sharp inaccuracies in the election in favor of Joe Biden. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. In broad brushstrokes, the idea was that Democrats would soon be exposed in a massive voter-fraud sting operation orchestrated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The tribes have warned of grave consequences for their own budgets if they’re forced to repay, and have threatened to take legal action against DHS. Tribal medical providers gave opioid treatments to patients to take at home, but the state paid the tribes an “encounter rate” as if the patients had taken the medications at a clinic. For several years, the state Department of Human Services paid the Leech Lake and White Earth tribes for medical services that never happened as the agency claimed.