(During an interview in November, Attorney General Mark Brnovich cast doubt on allegations of election fraud and affirmed his belief that Joe Biden would “win” the state.) Arizona’s AG Confirms It is Investigating Audit’s Election Fraud Claims, But Has Run Into a Problem https://trendingpolitics.com/arizon...fraud-claims-but-has-run-into-a-problem-knab/ Arizona’s Attorney General Mark Brnovich has confirmed in a letter to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann that his office is investigating election fraud claims related to the 2020 election, but it has run into a few obstacles. The state attorney general’s office is thus seeking more information from the Arizona Senate in order to proceed, as was detailed in a letter issued by Asst. Attorney General Jennifer Wright on Tuesday, which is provided below. Dear President Fann: The Elections Integrity Unit (“Unit”) of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office (“AGO”) is in receipt of your letter dated September 24, 2021 and related audit reports pertaining to the Senate’s forensic audit the 2020 General Election. In order for the Unit to conduct a thorough review of the information contained in those reports, we respectfully request the following: 1. Unredacted copies of all reports; 2. Appendices referenced in Cyber Ninjas Report, Vol. III; 3. Evidence supporting findings contained in Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai’s report entitled “Pattern Recognition Classification of Early Voting Ballot Return Envelope Images for Signature Presence Detection by Echomail”; 4. Evidence supporting findings contained in Ben Cotton’s presentation “Digital Findings”; and 5. An opportunity to meet individually with each of the contractors/subcontractors that prepared the report or presented findings to the Senate. Please note that the Unit sent a letter to Maricopa County directing them to preserve all potentially relevant materials related to the 2020 General Election, 2020 Presidential Preference Election and the 2020 Primary Election. The Unit will send a follow up letter asking Maricopa County to respond to the reports’ findings, as well as inviting them to provide rebuttal evidence. On Monday, the Attorney General’s Office of the Solicitor General sent a notice to Maricopa County regarding the Arizona audit. It states the following: As you are aware, the Arizona Senate released the findings of the forensic audit of the 2020 General Election on Friday, September 24, 2021. The Elections Integrity Unit (“Unit”) of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office (“Office”) has begun its review of the report and materials provided by the Arizona Senate. Based on the information contained within the report, the Unit expects the need to obtain documents, files, and related information during the course of review that is potentially relevant to the 2020 General Election and is currently under the direct or indirect custody and care of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, Maricopa County Elections Department, and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors ( combined referred to as “Maricopa County”). In light of our review, as well as the expectation the review may lead to further investigation or litigation, this letter is to provide notice to Maricopa County that a litigation hold should be in effect regarding all potentially relevant materials related to the 2020 General Election, as well as potentially relevant materials related to the 2020 Primary Election and 2020 Presidential Preference Election ( combined referred to as “2020 Statewide Elections”). All Maricopa County employees, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and assigns who were directly or indirectly involved in any aspect of managing the 2020 Statewide Elections should be made aware of this litigation hold and Maricopa County should take all actions necessary to ensure compliance. It also ordered that Maricopa County preserve the following in light of the forthcoming investigation: Hard copies of documents, tangible items, and electronically stored information; Electronic communications, including emails or instant messaging used by Maricopa County as well as county-owned or personal mobile devices and any other device that would contain potentially relevant data; Electronic data stored on computer systems, election systems, removable electronic media (including floppy discs, CDs, DVDs, and flash memory media, including USB drives and memory cards), word processing documents, spreadsheets, databases, calendars, digital photographs or other digital images, internet usage files (including router information and splunk logs), telephone logs, and network access information; Election equipment used to administer the 2020 Statewide Election, including systems used to verify ballot affidavit signatures, tabulators, computer equipment, and all election management equipment; Any and all physical records including, but not limited to, all ballots (whether counted or not), returned early ballot envelopes (including undeliverable, unopened/rejected, opened), chain of custody documentation for all election-related materials, tracking logs (including electronic adjudication logs, duplicated ballot logs, and any election-related logs), internal documents related to election administration (including Maricopa County election procedures effective during the 2020 election), internal memos, voter registration forms (including documents to update or change voter registration records), and tally sheets; All electronic files and footage captured by video monitoring equipment used on behalf of Maricopa County that contains still images, moving images and/ or any audio recordings of the inside and outside of the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (“MCTEC”) the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, and any satellite offices, facilities, or locations used in conjunction with the 2020 Statewide Elections; and Building access records maintained by Maricopa County for all offices related to 2020 Statewide Election.
Yep... Trumper Mark Brnovich who is Arizona’s Attorney General is still pushing the MAGA election fraud nonsense. At this point he needs to collect all the information he is requesting from Cyber Ninjas who is holding all of it -- he should sent the letter to Cyber Ninjas (but that won't help his political career). Arizona attorney general continues election investigation after audit flop https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...inues-election-investigation-after-audit-flop Of course Mark Brnovich is merely doing this to set-up his run for higher office. His investigation has nothing to do with facts -- it is just about getting the GOP base in his corner for the U.S. Senate primary. Impending release of election audit results puts Arizona AG on the spot https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/23/arizona-election-audit-results-release-friday-puts/ Of all the eyes watching Friday’s release of results from the election audit in Maricopa County, arguably nobody has more on the line than Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who will face intense pressure to take action. Former President Donald Trump has been urging Mr. Brnovich to lean into the so-far unproven allegations that the 2020 election was “stolen” by Democrats, and Mr. Trump expects “incredible information” to come out of the audit. Prevailing wisdom holds that the final report will reveal little but won’t stop fervent Trump backers from seeing guns that are smoking — or at least warm to the touch — inside the findings. That is the tangle gripping Mr. Brnovich, the state’s chief prosecutor who’s also running for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. (More at above url)
“Arizona audit” shows 86,391 voters “don’t appear to exist.” The distorted claim that 86,391 voters in Maricopa ‘don’t appear to exist’ https://www.politifact.com/factchec...ted-claim-86391-voters-maricopa-dont-appear-/ The GOP-orchestrated review of ballots in Maricopa County from the 2020 presidential election said that 86,391 voters were not found in a commercial database known as Melissa. Melissa compiles records of people’s identities from credit cards, news reports and death records. Not being in Melissa doesn’t mean the people don’t exist. The database is not comprehensive. An official for the Melissa database estimated that their system covers 80% of adults.
The GOP circus continues in Arizona. Arizona Republican state senator who opposed Trump's 'audit' abruptly resigns as chair of key committee https://www.rawstory.com/michelle-ugenti-rita-resigns/
'Made up the numbers': Experts find Arizona's 'hoax' audit was even worse than it looked https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/arizona-audit/
Cyber Ninja's CEO admits that once of his own employees created and circulated the counterfeit audit report. 'Logan said that someone on his “audit" team wrote the counterfeit draft report, but did not say who it was. Oltmann, the show's host, admitted that he released that version of the report online.' Cyber Ninjas CEO went on a right-wing podcast instead of testifying before Congress https://www.rawstory.com/doug-logan/ Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan refused to testify before the U.S. House Oversight Committee Thursday morning about the self-styled “audit" he led for the Arizona Senate, choosing instead to spend two hours as a guest on a right-wing podcast hosted by a fellow election conspiracy theorist who is being sued for defamation. “I mean, the current question is how many times was I thrown under the bus?" Logan joked about the congressional hearing he skipped to the hosts of Conservative Daily. As Logan spoke to podcast hosts Joe Oltmann and Max McGuire, Senate “audit" liaison and former Secretary of State Ken Bennett was testifying to the congressional committee to defend the controversial election review. The committee also heard from Maricopa County supervisors and election experts. Oltmann gained notoriety for a baseless allegation he previously made against a Dominion Voting Systems executive that the company's ballot-counting machines were rigged to ensure Trump lost the election. That executive, Eric Coomer, has filed several defamation lawsuits over Oltmann's unfounded claims that he was a member of “antifa" and conspired to change election results. Both Oltmann and Logan also appeared in the conspiracy theory film “The Deep Rig" which was riddled with falsehoods about the 2020 election and was directed by a man whose previous work claimed aliens were behind 9/11. Logan was heavily involved in efforts to overturn election results in Michigan and he provided information to U.S. senators that they could ostensibly use to reject presidential electors from battleground states that Biden won. And he spread election disinformation on social media in the weeks after the election. In that conspiracy theory film, which was produced by the primary funder of the “audit," Logan declared that the Central Intelligence Agency was behind claims that the 2020 election was fair. I can't tell you if this is fraud' The two-hour discussion, titled “Cyberninja's (sic) CEO Tells Congress to Fork Off and Joins US Instead," focused on a range of topics, including Logan's faith, the audit, a fake version of the audit report and calls from right-wing extremists to decertify the election because of what the “audit" concluded. Logan spoke openly about witnessing what he called “anomalies" after the 2020 election that he claimed the “mainstream media" was not covering, saying that this is what got him into “election integrity work." “It didn't make logical sense," Logan said of the “anomalies" of the 2020 election. Prior to being hired by the Arizona Senate to conduct the ballot review of the Maricopa County election, Arizona Mirror discovered Logan had been an advocate for “Stop the Steal" content on his now defunct Twitter account, retweeting known misinformation peddlers such as Ron Watkins and Bobby Piton. Logan has repeatedly refused to answer questions from the Mirror and other journalists about his Twitter account or his advocacy of lies about the election. But he told the podcast that, by Nov. 14, 2020, he was meeting with a group of people to work on “election anomalies" in South Carolina. This confirms earlier reporting by Talking Points Memo in which conspiracy theorist Lin Wood said Logan was at his property in South Carolina to discuss election fraud investigations. Wood's organization, Fight Back, donated $50,000 to the Arizona “audit" efforts. After that, Logan said he didn't come home until Christmas Eve and worked on election fraud investigations in Georgia. Logan was also involved in the failed attempt to prove election fraud in Antrim County, Mich., where he was listed as an expert witness. When the conversation turned to the findings that the “audit" made about the Maricopa County election, Logan claimed that there were over 23,000 “suspicious ballots," but demurred on the question of whether there was any fraud. “I can't tell you if this is fraud or if it is not fraud. What I can tell you is that it is highly suspicious," Logan said of the audit report's assessment of mail in ballots. Maricopa County in its response said they have been unable to substantiate any of the claims on the 23,000 mail in ballots Logan deems “suspicious," adding that Cyber Ninjas used a commercial database instead of the United States Postal Service or National Change of Address report to confirm a person's address, making Logan's analysis unreliable. A large portion of the discussion centered on the concept of decertifying the 2020 election, something Logan was not keen on. “Suggesting we should decertify is like launching a nuke," Logan said, drawing criticism from the hosts. The “audit" report explicitly did not conclude there was election fraud, and did little more than suggest possible changes to state laws governing how elections are conducted. But a fraudulent draft version of the report was published by Gateway Pundit, a right-wing clearinghouse of conspiracy theories and fabricated stories, that alleged Logan and the other auditors found fraud and called for the election to be decertified. Logan said that someone on his “audit" team wrote the counterfeit draft report, but did not say who it was. Oltmann, the show's host, admitted that he released that version of the report online. “Are you ready for the left or other people to use the same burden of proof to use it against you?" Logan said to Oltmann, adding that they must have “absolute proof" and that they are not there yet for decertification, something legislative attorneys have said is not possible. Logan pushed for Oltmann and his viewers to wait for Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate, and said that the Arizona Senate is in the process of sending more information to the AG. “Let's pray for the AG, let's pray that he does what is right," Logan said. “Send him letters, send him emails, encourage him to do what is right." Oltmann, who has a history of using violent rhetoric, had some different thoughts on the matter. “The backlash from the American people if (Brnovich) doesn't do the right thing is going to be a snowball, that I'm not sure rolling down that mountain will not turn into something that none of us want, and that is some sort of kinetic behavior by Americans saying enough is enough," Oltmann said, adding that it may result in “tar and feathering."
Misinformation abounds as House panel questions Arizona’s presidential election ‘audit’ https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-audit-update-2655253585/
He found no evidence of fraud in Arizona, found the ballots were counted correctly, and could not identify any systemic voting issues --- well the Trumper "voting fraud" extremists have not taken this very well and now they are threatening to kill him. But it is very hard to feel sorry for Cyber Ninja's, Doug Logan. He made his bed and now he needs to sleep in it. 'Cyber Ninjas' CEO swearing off doing more audits after death threats from Trump fans https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-cyber-ninjas/
Good. This Arizona audit is just the beginning and the auditors were denied by Maricopa county officials in examining the electronic devices used in the election on November 3, 2020. With this part of the Arizona audit, it leaves serious doubt to the results of the election for President of the United States. The questionable votes, including voters who voted more than once, is more than enough to wipe out the supposed winning margin by Joe Biden.
More nonsense again, eh. At this point the "voting fraud" nonsense has been proven to have no basis in fact. Even the Arizona "fraudit" could find no evidence of voting fraud. It is time to stop pushing these fabricated talking points which undermine democracy.