Arizona Official Says Voting Machines Are Now Unusable Because Of Recount Firm's Control

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The partisan firm Cyber Ninjas auditing the November votes broke the “chain of custody” for machine possession, raising tampering concerns, the secretary of state said. 😂😂😂

NOBODY SAW THAT COMING!!


The machines should not be used again because there is no way of knowing whether they were tampered with while out of the county’s custody and under the control of Senate Republicans and the controversial Cyber Ninjas company conducting the recount, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, she said in a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.

New machines reportedly could cost the state millions of dollars.

It’s the latest astonishing snafu in a circus recount of 2.1 million Maricopa County votes by a company that has no experience with ballots or elections and that is run by a right-wing conspiracy theorist who was convinced months ago that any audit would turn up hundreds of thousands of votes for The Orange Moron.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-cyber-ninja-recounters_n_60a7227be4b0313547951ee7

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Trust NOTHING from under Republican control.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Just as well. The scanners are probably clogged with bamboo slivers by now. nt

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3. No problem, the Arizona taxpayer is good for it

You really can't ask the Cyber Ninjas or the Republicans in the Arizona State Senate to pay for new machines, can you? How unfair would that be???

[ScratchCat]

4. Just watch now

The Arizona Legislature will call an emergency session to write legislation requiring the State to use those machines in the 2022 and 2024 elections.

[GregariousGroundhog]

5. The FEC has rules around certification of election equipment

In particular, I'm looking at 52 U.S. Code § 20971:

(a)Certification and testing
(1)In general
The Commission shall provide for the testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting system hardware and software by accredited laboratories.

(2)Optional use by States
At the option of a State, the State may provide for the testing, certification, decertification, or recertification of its voting system hardware and software by the laboratories accredited by the Commission under this section.

I'm curious what administrative rules the FEC has derived from the quoted statute and if it will end up causing headaches due to Arizona's chain of custody failures.