Arizona's sham 'audit' report due to GOP-led state Senate on Monday https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/22/politics/arizona-audit-report/index.html he company that conducted Arizona's sham review of the 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election is set Monday to deliver a report detailing their findings to the Republican state senators who ordered it up. Elections experts in both parties have said for months that results of the so-called "audit" -- conducted by the Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas, which had no experience auditing election results and is led by a man who has repeated wild conspiracy theories about election fraud -- will not be credible. The company and its volunteers and subcontractors did not follow standard auditing procedures. Observers from Democratic secretary of state Katie Hobbs' office have repeatedly noted instances in which those conducting the audit have broken their own rules. And the partisan nature of the audit and its funders -- $5.7 million came from outside, conservative sources, compared to just $150,000 from the Arizona state Senate, which ordered the audit -- has long cast serious doubt on its credibility. No matter the results of the audit, the reality that Joe Biden is president and won Arizona's 11 electoral votes last year will not change. But that hasn't stopped former President Donald Trump and his allies -- particularly far-right, pro-Trump propaganda outlets -- from claiming otherwise and saying that other states should follow Arizona's lead in conducting audits. Trump issued a raft of false statements ahead of a campaign-style rally in the state last month, and used the rally to repeat those lies. "Does everybody here understand that the 2020 election was a total disgrace?" Trump said. Trump's allies have tried to export Arizona's audit to other states -- including Pennsylvania, where a state senator has sought to conduct his own review of individual counties' results but has been rebuffed by those counties, and Wisconsin, where Republican lawmakers are pursuing several approaches but have butted heads over which avenues to pursue. The report's delivery to state senators Monday does not mean it will be immediately released to the public. Instead, Senate Republicans and their representatives plan to review it. Ken Bennett, the Senate's liaison with the audit team, said last week that a group will spend the following "days or weeks" verifying and "checking for accuracy" the report. Bennett told CNN he wanted to "spread fact, not rumor" that this would only be a draft report and it would not be made public. The Senate team, will review the report and could ask Cyber Ninjas for further clarifications of its findings. "Senate team will then review for accuracy and clarity for final report which will be released publicly," state Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, tweeted last week. Warnings about 'unreliable' conclusions The finalization of the audit -- and the potential for the report detailing its results to soon become public -- has led Republican and Democratic elections officials in Arizona, including GOP officials in Maricopa County, to warn that it should not be taken seriously. Hobbs, the Arizona secretary of state and a 2022 Democratic candidate for governor, issued a 46-page report pre-butting the audit's results, too. "It is clear that any 'outcomes' or 'conclusions' that are reported from the Senate's review, by the Cyber Ninjas or any of their subcontractors or partners, are unreliable," Hobbs' report says. The report calls the Senate-run recount "secretive and disorganized." It reiterates most of the issues Hobbs has cited for months; lack of security, shifting processes for screening and counting ballots, chain of custody and transparency problems. Over and over the report notes there were no consistent procedures in reading ballots, tallying ballots and storing the ballots. One person working to examine the paper in the ballots complained that the process changed "every day, every day!" In one example, a Senate contractor told observers that after one week, the scanning of the paper ballots "had been abandoned because contractors performed a software update which resulted in the loss of all the ballot images." Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder -- a Republican whose 2020 victory was one of the GOP's few gains in the state, as they lost the presidential race and a Senate seat -- released a 38-page letter titled "Dear Arizona Republicans" last week. In the letter, Richer, who has become an outspoken critic of the Cyber Ninjas audit, details his own political history as a loyal Republican who voted for Trump, and explains the missteps the auditors and Senate Republicans who hired them have taken that led him to respond forcefully -- including disproven allegations of criminal wrongdoing posted on a Twitter account run by the audit team. Richer notes that three post-election partial audits of Maricopa County's results found them to be accurate. He also said he would still be willing to conduct a review of the 2020 election to ease Republicans' worries, and would do so with Fann and GOP lawmakers -- if they ditched Cyber Ninjas. "What I'm not willing to do is further indulge the biased, inexperienced, incompetent, conspiracy-theory-driven, unscrupulous, partisan Cyber Ninjas," Richer said. He wrote that the audit "is an abomination that has so far eroded election confidence and defamed good people."
Arizona GOP audit delayed after Cyber Ninjas members contract COVID-19 https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...-after-cyber-ninjas-members-contract-covid-19 A dubious review of millions of ballots cast in Arizona’s largest county will be delayed after three members of the company involved in the effort contracted COVID-19, according to a top Republican state lawmaker. The firm, Cyber Ninjas, had been expected to hand over findings Monday from its chaotic and widely criticized review of 2020 presidential election ballots cast in Maricopa County, but that timeline will be pushed back after a majority of its team became “quite sick.” “The team expected to have the full draft ready for the Senate today, but unfortunately Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and two other members of the five-person audit team have tested positive for COVID-19 and are quite sick,” Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said in a statement. Fann said lawmakers had received “a portion of the draft report” and that members of the Arizona Senate’s legal team would meet Wednesday to begin the process of reviewing the draft “for accuracy, clarity and proof of documentation of findings.” The partisan “audit” has been dogged by questions over its competence and validity since March when the Senate, without a bid process, signed Cyber Ninjas, whose chief executive had spread misinformation about the 2020 election before his hiring. The Florida-based cybersecurity firm was selected despite the company having no prior experience in conducting election audits and after an experienced election audit firm had offered its services. Several of the Arizona Republicans who voted to authorize the audit have come to regret their votes and have publicly criticized the process. Additionally, a bipartisan duo of top election administrators in Arizona have issued scathing condemnations ahead of Cyber Ninjas’ forthcoming final report. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R) in separate reports castigated the inspection itself as deeply flawed — so much so that Hobbs argued it did not even merit the term “audit.” “Despite frequent references to this review as an audit, the exercise undertaken by the Arizona Senate’s Florida-based contractor, Cyber Ninjas, fails to meet industry standards for any credible audit, much less for an election audit,” Hobbs’s office wrote. “The Senate’s contractors demonstrated a lack of understanding of election processes and procedures both at a state and county level.” Biden, the first Democrat since former President Clinton to win Arizona’s electoral votes, carried the state by just under 11,000 votes, or about three-tenths of a percentage point. He won Maricopa County, home of Phoenix and about two-thirds of the state’s registered voters, by 45,000 votes.
@LacesOut @carrer @Buy1Sell2 Time to send your stock of horse dewormers so that Trump can be President again
Now Rick Perry wants to make money off them with a brand new product. Rick Perry pushes new product for Texas COVID crisis -- and gets snippy when asked about his financial stake in it Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who served as Secretary of Energy under former President Donald Trump, is pitching Texas schools on a new product to deal with the state's COVID-19 crisis. The Houston Chronicle reports that Perry held a lengthy press conference in which he pitched an air-filtration system called Integrated Viral Protection as an alternative to mask mandates in schools. However, the Chronicle reports that Perry has a financial interest in the company behind the product, and he got snippy when a reporter asked him about how much of a stake he had in seeing its products succeed. "Well, that's none of your business," he replied to a reporter. "I'm not a public official anymore."
If I had to bet in Vegas -- I would certainly win money betting the Cyber Ninjas didn't get vaccinated, didn't wear masks, and chugged horse wormer to stick it to the libs. "Letting it play out" at this point merely means planning where to sent the "thoughts & prayers" to as they one-by-one succumb to their preventable demise. We will probably never see any complete "audit" report.
This is what really happened to the audit report that Cyber Ninjas CEO is too embarrassed to talk about... wrbtrader
There are no offices , just a mailbox , no staff , no nothing.......it's all a scam. CNN tries to track down corporate HQ of Arizona 'auditors' Cyber Ninjas — and it doesn't go well On CNN Monday, reporter Kyung Lah revealed what happened when she attempted to track down the corporate headquarters of "Cyber Ninjas," the mysterious pro-Trump cybersecurity firm hired by the GOP-controlled Arizona Senate to conduct a controversial "audit" of ballots in Maricopa County. Lah ultimately did not find a great deal of substance behind the company, other than its founder, Doug Logan. "The Cyber Ninjas were hired with very little experience. In fact, zero experience when it comes to election auditing," said Lah. "So we went to Sarasota, Florida ... our first stop, Cyber Ninjas legal department." What she found was a rented mailbox inside a UPS store that had been described as a fourth-floor suite in an office building. "No one ever answers the official business phone number," said Lah, playing a recording of a woman saying, "Thank you for calling Cyber Ninjas. What's more, every single extension redirects callers to Doug Logan's voicemail. "I'm still waiting for Doug Logan to call me back," said Lah. "He never returned any of our inquiries. What we can tell you on paper that the Cyber Ninjas ... were paid $150,000 by Arizona taxpayers to conduct this audit in addition to millions that were funneled into this effort. We don't know if they got millions, but millions was funneled into this effort to conduct this so-called audit."
Why would they talk to CNN---Queen of Fake News? ---Let's let this play out and see what the results are. --Might be nothing but we don't know yet.