Arizona's Sham Election 'Audit': One Year of Evidence -- And Counting

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We’ve uncovered 90,000+ pages of records that show the political bias and conspiracy rooted-origins of the Arizona “audit.” Its widely discredited “findings” have been used to push anti-voting legislation that disproportionately harms people of color.

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Arizona’s Sham Election ‘Audit’: One Year of Evidence — And Counting - American Oversight
One year after filing its lawsuit for the release of records from the “audit,” American Oversight details the documents it has obtained that further expose the election review’s biased and partisan...
7:54 AM · Jun 2, 2022

https://www.americanoversight.org/arizonas-sham-election-audit-one-year-of-evidence-and-counting

It’s been one year since American Oversight filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Senate seeking the release of records related to the Senate’s partisan “audit” of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County. In the months that followed, documents released in response to our litigation revealed the politically biased and conspiracy-rooted origins of the “audit,” as detailed in a report we published in September. Since then, American Oversight has continued to uncover yet more evidence that this sham election review was an anti-democratic tactic to undermine faith in the 2020 election results.

BACKGROUND

In the weeks after Joe Biden won the presidential election in Arizona, and as supporters of former President Donald Trump promoted his lies about widespread voter fraud, the state Senate began to plan an “audit” of votes cast in the state’s most populous county. Despite several independent reviews by experienced election auditors that verified the results, Senate President Karen Fann later hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct the “audit,” a firm with no election experience and whose founder and CEO, Doug Logan, had previously touted election-denying conspiracies. person

On May 19, 2021, American Oversight filed suit against the Senate for failing to release “audit”-related documents in response to our open records requests. Since then, multiple court rulings have found that both the Senate and Cyber Ninjas must turn over public documents related to the election review. The Senate is still seeking to withhold certain records under a broad claim of legislative privilege, which in May 2022 brought part of the lawsuit before the Arizona Supreme Court. Meanwhile, American Oversight has obtained tens of thousands of pages of documents related to the sham “audit.”

This report outlines records obtained since last September’s report along with significant findings related to the “audit.” As we’ve previously reported, leaders of the election review had from the start set out to find evidence of fraud so as to cast doubt on the 2020 results. Moreover, the review had roots in a multi-state effort to overturn the election, and involved the encouragement and “expertise” of prominent Trump allies and election-denying conspiracy theorists. Along the way, the inexperience of those conducting the “audit” combined with the connections to election reviews in other states has demonstrated the operation’s dangerously anti-democratic consequences.

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[gab13by13]

1. Our DOJ allowed this to happen.

Federal election laws were broken in this fraudit and all that DOJ did was write a stern letter.

A citizen's group and local media outlet filed a FOIA request for the Cyber Ninja documents, DOJ has done nothing.

By not stopping the Cyber Ninjas these fraudits spread across the country and gave fuel to the Big Lie.

[BlueIdaho]

3. 👆🏻 X 1000

[Kid Berwyn]

4. And another gazillion.

Jan. 21, 2021 was the day to start holding the traitors to account.

[MissMillie]

2. I couldn't get the link to the article--the screen was darkened (paywall?)

here's a better link:

https://archive.ph/In9G6