By Mimi Nguyen Ly. Arizona's top elections officer Katie Hobbs on Wednesday alleged multiple points of concern regarding the forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election currently underway in Maricopa County.
This included seven points of concern over counting procedures that the state Senate and audit contractor Cyber Ninjas disclosed, as well as six points of concern over what her observers saw at the audit site.
The audit began on April 23 and continues at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, a venue the auditors have booked and secured until May 14.
The Arizona Democratic Party filed a last-minute lawsuit against state Senate leadership to try to stop the audit from going ahead but their bid to immediately halt it was rebuffed by a judge.
The official Twitter account for the audit, run by Bennet's team, said late on Wednesday that Hobbs "Continues to make baseless claimes [sic] about this forensic audit but has never led an election audit in her entire career." The message declared, "The audit continues!".
Another statement released later on Wednesday reads, "Democrat who does not support election audits or transparency now wants the Federal Government to get involved in the Arizona Senate forensic audit. Arizona has the authority to conduct this audit without interference from the Feds!".
In addition to concerns over the disclosed procedures, Hobbs alleged in her letter that observers from her office have seen a number of problems, which include inadequate physical security of ballots, unattended computers at the forensic analysis tables, constantly changing rules in the audit procedures since the beginning of the audit, and "Frequent violations" of the procedures that do exist.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Arizona Elections Chief Alleges Problems in Maricopa County Audit of 2020 Election
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