Wait for results to come out. There is no way to comment correctly on an audit where we don't know the results yet. Let's let this play out.
And what do you have to say to the Arizona GOP officials -- many of whom are now saying they been scammed.
Arizona audit’s lengthy delay is allowing wild new conspiracies to take root https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-forensic-audit-2655054048/ Donald Trump's supporters are growing restless as the report on the Arizona election "audit" misses its deadline by more than four months, but the true believers remain hopeful the findings will overturn his election loss. The report was initially due in May, but a number of issues -- including a COVID-19 outbreak that hit the head of "Cyber Ninjas" and two of his employees conducting the "audit" -- have delayed the findings for so long that ballot counters even held a two-month reunion this week after their work concluded, but it's backers continue to promise eye-popping results, reported The Daily Beast. "YOU WILL LOVE THE ARIZONA SENATE SOON EVEN THOUGH SOME ARE MAD AT US NOW," posted state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff) on Telegram. Rogers, who disputes criticism that the process is "fake" and "not real," claims the final report will finally be delivered to the Arizona state Senate next week, but the lengthy delay has allowed new, even more outlandish conspiracy theories to fester in Trump supporters' imaginations. Right-wing activist Liz Harris issued "grassroots canvass report" last week that claims she has proof that 173,000 ballots weren't actually counted in Maricopa County, while another 96,389 "ghost votes" were created using vacant lots as home addresses, but county officials and voting experts say the report is filled with errors, and she's already had to change the front-page photo to cover one mistake. That didn't stop QAnon conspiracist and state Rep. Mark Finchem (R-Oro Valley), who Trump has endorsed in his race for Arizona secretary of state, from citing the Harris report in a recent appearance on the right-wing One America News. "It's pointed to more than election-systems fraud," Finchem claimed. "It's pointed to voter roll fraud." Harris also aired her claims on Steve Bannon's podcast, claiming that her photos of vacant lots proved voter fraud, although what little data she has released has been easily debunked. "I could write a book about many problems there are here," said Garrett Archer, a data analyst for KNXV-TV who previously worked as an elections analyst for Arizona's secretary of state. "They made a mistake on their cover sheet, so there's a chance that there's mistakes in the actual data."
The top funder of Arizona's 2020 election 'audit' is signaling a new report will admit Biden beat Trump https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/arizona-audit-trump/ The team of Arizona Republican state senators, legislative staff, and advisers finalizing the Cyber Ninjas' report on the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County are preparing to say that Joe Biden legitimately won the election, according to the largest funder of the Senate's mostly privatized election review, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. (More at above url)
Results might be coming sooner than later. After all the BS lawsuits, refusal to comply with subpoenas, lies in extreme liberal media. Maricopa officials, finally showed some signs of cooperation. We shall see if the audit is finally finished and the findings if any. Katie Hobbs, Democrat, Arizona Secretary of State wasted US tax dollars replacing election equipment, just because the auditors took possession of it, to examine. Again, what is she and Maricopa officials hiding? https://teamtuckercarlson.com/news/arizona-senate-maricopa-county-reach-agreement-in-audit-case/
Congratulations AZ taxpayers, not only was that 'audit' meaningless, but now you have to pay for the damages to the voting machines, thanks to the AZ GOP. Arizona taxpayers forced to pay for voting machines ruined by GOP 'audit' https://americanindependent.com/arizona-election-audit-voting-machines-taxpayers/ Karen Fann, president of the GOP-led state Senate, called the decision to place the burden on taxpayers a 'win.' Republicans in the Arizona state Senate are officially off the hook for the $2.8 million needed to replace hundreds of voting machines ruined during the GOP-led, scandal-ridden "audit" of the 2020 election results in the state, the Arizona Republic reported. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in August to force GOP state senators — who had signed an agreement saying that they would be responsible for any costs incurred from their "forensic audit" of the state's 2020 election — to pay the millions for the machines. The county had determined that the machines were no longer usable after audit workers compromised the tabulators and left them vulnerable to security risks. Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel informed the GOP senators in August: The County incurred costs as a result of its election equipment being compromised while in the control of the Senate. Specifically, and as explained more fully below, the Senate allowed unqualified persons to handle, examine, and manipulate the County’s election equipment in ways that compromised it and rendered it unfit to be used in future elections. As a result, the County has had to replace the subpoenaed election equipment at a cost to the County of $2,833,220.00. These costs are directly recoverable from the Senate pursuant to the Covenant of Indemnification. However, the Arizona Republic reported that Maricopa County reached a deal on Friday that would let the GOP lawmakers off the hook for the millions in damages. As part of the deal, Maricopa County will pay the costs of replacing the voting machines from its taxpayer-funded budget — despite the Senate's indemnification agreement that promised taxpayers wouldn't foot the bill for any costs stemming from the audit effort. In return for dropping the costs, Arizona's Republican attorney general backed off his own threat to withhold $700 million in annual state funding to the county — or nearly half of its operating budget — because Maricopa County had not complied with one of numerous subpoena demands. Republicans in the Arizona Senate had subpoenaed routers from the county as part of their audit, but the county refused to turn them over, saying it could pose a security risk, according to the Arizona Republic's report. Now, despite dropping its demand that the Senate pay for the ruined voting machines, Maricopa County will still have to answer questions about the routers, the Arizona Republic reported. But the Senate agreed to have the review done by former Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) rather than by Cyber Ninjas, the firm that conducted the audit and is run by an avid Donald Trump supporter who has promoted lies about election fraud. Republican Senate President Karen Fann called the compromise a "HUGE win" for the Senate. "Maricopa settlement gives us all the data needed to complete the review of the routers & splunk log to the most comprehensive election audit in history," Fann tweeted. "We got everything we need and more. Maricopa County goes home with its tail between its legs." She told the Associated Press that the compromise was "a victory for election integrity and the Arizona taxpayer." The GOP Senate has yet to release a report of its findings from the audit, which has been plagued by scandal and incompetence. Cyber Ninjas now says the report should be out Friday, blaming the delay on the fact that a number of its staff contracted serious cases of COVID-19. Election experts said auditors did not follow proper procedure in counting the more than 2 million ballots it was reviewing and accused Cyber Ninjas and the GOP-led Senate of trying to back up Trump's voter fraud lies instead of accurately recounting the vote. Even some GOP lawmakers in the state started to turn against the audit, saying it made Republicans look like "idiots." Polling also showed the audit is unpopular with voters and poses an electoral risk for the GOP in the 2022 midterm elections. Prior to this audit, multiple previous recounts had found that there were no irregularities in the results and that President Joe Biden had won the state. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who campaigned for Trump and for former Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), wrote a letter in August chastising his own party for the audit, saying, "I'm embarrassed listening to my party concoct the most outlandish theories (Chinese ballots!) to avoid accepting the reality: We lost the top two races in Arizona."