In one section, Brnovich said he believes the county was not properly vetting voter signatures on early ballot affidavits, but detailed no evidence that the county failed to follow the law. Instead, he noted that on the day after the 2020 election, county workers spent an average of “only 4.6 seconds per signature.”
Lets' see how much money Arizona GOP legislators have spent attempting to illegally hide the fraudit information. The Arizona Senate has spent $500,000 to block access to election 'audit' public records https://www.rawstory.com/the-arizon...lock-access-to-election-audit-public-records/ The Arizona Senate has spent more than $500,000 in taxpayer money to fight the release of public records related to the partisan election review it conducted in 2021. Senate Republicans hired Phoenix-based law firm Statecraft to represent it on matters related to the so-called “audit” of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, including lawsuits centered on public records. The Senate has refused to release thousands of documents to watchdog organizations and journalists, including the Arizona Mirror, that have sought access to the materials under Arizona’s public records law. In each instance, courts have roundly rejected the Senate’s claims that the records aren’t public because they were created or retained by the contractors the Senate hired to do the election review. Instead, the courts have said that the Senate’s position would render the public records law meaningless. “Allowing the legislature to disregard the clear mandate of the (public records law) would undermine the integrity of the legislative process and discourage transparency,” which would run counter to the purpose of Arizona’s public records law, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled. Senate President Karen Fann appealed the case to the state Supreme Court, which declined to take it up, leaving the appellate court ruling in place. According to the latest invoices, Statecraft has now billed Fann and the Senate roughly $502,000 since April 2021, when the first court hearing happened to fight a public records request. (Payments to Statecraft go as far back as December 2020 over separate legal matters.) More than a year later, thousands of documents were turned over — but only those that were in the Senate’s possession. Cyber Ninjas, the now-defunct firm that Fann hired to oversee the election review, has not turned over any records, even in the face of $50,000 daily fines for failing to do so. The company and its CEO, Doug Logan, continue to fight turning over documents to the point a judge named Logan and his wife personally responsible for the records moving forward, even as the tally for the fines has risen to $4.1 million. Nearly every claim that Fann’s so-called audit team made about the 2020 general election was either inaccurate, misleading or patently false. The “audit” was spurred by President Donald Trump’s campaign in order to overturn the results, and was overseen by people with no election experience who helped form many of the bogus conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The most recent invoice requested $10,824 for the entire month of March. Attorneys at Statecraft are paid $350 per hour. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and even Cyber Ninjas’ report in September reaffirmed Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
The Arizona state Senate leader, Wendy Rogers, who led the fraudit is demonstrating her insanity again...
So someone explain where the money for this "fraudit" came from... Arizona Republican election audit contractor Cyber Ninjas spent $8.8m, documents show Some subcontractors may never be paid because the company that ran the partisan audit has filed for bankruptcy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...arizona-audit-cyber-ninjas-debt-b2077681.html Cyber Ninjas, the contractor run by an election conspiracy theorist that was tasked with running the partisan audit of Maricopa County, Arizona ballots, ended up spending $2.1m more than it had on hand to determine yet again that Joe Biden won Grand Canyon State’s most populous county in the 2020 election. According to records released by a watchdog group, American Oversight, the audit ordered by Republicans who control the Arizona state Senate cost approximately $8.8m — including $5.2m allocated to pay and labour costs — a number far higher than the relatively paltry sum of $150,000 the company had originally quoted in a “statement of work” prepared for the Arizona senate. Yet at the same time, Cyber Ninjas was promising comparatively exorbitant payments to subcontractors. One of them, inventor and conspiracy theorist Jovan Pulitzer, initially indicated he would charge $2.1m for use of what he described as a technology that could detect “kinematic artifacts,” or folds in paper ballots. Mr Hutton’s alleged technology was employed in hopes of proving that many of the postal ballots cast in majority-non-white Maricopa County were fraudulent because they were never folded to be mailed. Mr Pulitzer later discounted his fee to $210,000 — more than the original budget Cyber Ninjas quoted in their offer to senators — but it appears he was lucky to get paid as much as he was. Another Cyber Ninjas subcontractor was Shiva Ayyadurai, a conspiracy theorist and former Massachusetts Senate candidate who frequently (and falsely) claims to have invented email. In an August 2021 email to Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, Mr Ayyarudai said he was terminating his agreement with the company because he was never paid. Although the audit effort, which Republicans had hoped would validate outlandish conspiracy theories raised by former president Donald Trump and his allies in the wake of his loss to Mr Biden, raised more than $5m in donations from Trump supporters, Cyber Ninjas ended the process deep in debt, owing more than $1.9m to subcontractors in addition to $4.3m in contempt of court fines imposed after the company refused to turn over the documents as part of an open records lawsuit by the watchdog group. Those debts may never be paid because the company filed for bankruptcy last year.
Yep... this is the Arizona state Senate leader of the fraudit. Arizona GOP Legislator Wendy Rogers Suggests Buffalo Shooter Was a Fed in Deranged Conspiracy Theory https://www.mediaite.com/politics/a...oter-was-a-fed-in-deranged-conspiracy-theory/
More GOP legislators in Arizona sowed doubt about the 2020 election than any other state https://kjzz.org/content/1782088/mo...wed-doubt-about-2020-election-any-other-state Most Republican lawmakers in Arizona tried to discredit or overturn the 2020 presidential election results — more so than any other state in the country. According to an national analysis conducted by the New York Times, 81% of all GOP state lawmakers — that’s Arizona’s state representatives and senators — used the influence and authority of their office in attempts to cast doubt on the election results, or in some cases, tried to overturn the state’s election results, which clearly showed Democrat Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump. Arizona was one of only three states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, in which Republican lawmakers pushed investigations into the election that did little more than sow further doubt about the results. But even Arizona’s so-called audit confirmed Biden’s victory here.
'Anything but impartial': Arizona election 'auditors' emails ‘reveal a tangle of partisanship, irony and deceit’ https://www.rawstory.com/cyber-ninjas-arizona-gop/ Documents are shedding new light on the controversial "audit" of the 2020 vote that was authorized by Arizona state Senate Republicans and conducted by the company Cyber Ninjas. "Newly released documents reveal a tangle of partisanship, irony and deceit involving the people hired by the Senate to lead the election review, indicating it was anything but impartial," the Arizona Republic reported Tuesday. The newspaper has been engaged in a lengthy Freedom of Information Act battle with the company. In January, a judge imposed a fine of $50,000 each day the public records were not disclosed. Cyber Ninjas now owes more than $4 million in fines. "The few hundred documents released so far are only a fraction of the 60,000 or so the company estimated at one time were in its possession. Many of the emails are partial conversations, with perhaps two or three emails between people involved in the review, but not the entire conversation. Sometimes the partial information being provided creates more questions than answers about the proceedings last year," the newspaper reported. One email showed Christina Bobb of One American News Network presenting Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan was a draft non-disclosure agreement to silence journalists. "Bobb, a right-wing activist and ardent Trump supporter who regularly broadcast misinformation and bogus claims of election fraud, was no mere observer. She also helped bankroll the election review while reporting on it for the network," the newspaper reported. "Bobb, who is a lawyer and was an executive secretary in the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration, said in her email she modeled her draft NDA on one she signed when visiting a government facility." The newspaper also reported Bobb "served as a go-between for Giuliani and Arizona Senate President Karen Fann." Read the full report.