Maricopa County just made Karen Fann and her Senate ninja auditors look like fools Opinion: The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors proves that not all Republicans have lost their ever-living minds. They called for an end to the Senate audit that has made Arizona a 'laughingstock.' https://www.azcentral.com/story/opi...-fool-over-arizona-election-audit/5138310001/ Whoa. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors isn’t fooling around. This GOP-dominated board on Monday proved that not all Republicans have lost their ever-living minds since Nov. 3, when Donald Trump lost the election. The supervisors took the Arizona Senate’s Cyber Ninja auditors to school on how elections are run. And as for Senate President Karen Fann, the person who ordered this bizarre proctological exam of Maricopa County’s vote? They made her look like an absolute fool. Actually, they didn't make her look at like a fool. She did that all by herself. Senate audit was a disaster from the start This, by hiring conspiracy mongers to conduct what state GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward is calling "America's audit" and Supervisors’ Chairman Jack Sellers is calling “grift disguised as an audit.” “You have rented out the once good name of the Arizona State Senate to grifters and con-artists, who are fundraising hard-earned money from our fellow citizens even as your contractors parade around the Coliseum, hunting for bamboo and something they call ‘kinematic artifacts’ while shining purple lights for effect,” they wrote, in a letter to Fann that was signed by all five supervisors along with County Recorder Stephen Richer, Sheriff Paul Penzone, Treasurer John Allen, Assessor Eddie Cook and Superintendent Steve Watson. “None of these things are done in a serious audit. The result is that the Arizona Senate is held up to ridicule in every corner of the globe and our democracy is imperiled.” Bravo, amen and ain’t that the truth? Fann plans to livestream her response at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. This audit has had disaster written all over it from the moment Fann bowed to the conspiracy crowd and hired Trump’s ninjas to audit an already audited election. Fann, R-Prescott, has repeatedly said this exercise in embarrassment isn’t about overturning the state's election results. But that’s exactly what it’s always has been about, whether she knew it or not. County painstakingly refutes Fann's 'serious issues' Last week, she even called county officials on the carpet, demanding that they appear before her to explain “serious issues” her auditors have discovered: Things like why voter files were deleted before the servers were turned over to the Senate, which the Senate’s own audit Twitter account called “spoilation of evidence”. And why seals on bags of ballots were broken. And why the number of actual ballots in a batch is sometimes smaller than the number shown on the “pink report slip” accompanying each batch. On Monday, the county released a 14-page letter and 17 pages of accompanying documentation that shows, among other things: • That no voter files were deleted before the servers were turned over the Senate, as auditors claim. The county went into the sort of detail that only a computer geek could love about why the auditors might not be able to find the records, suggesting that they either lost the files or don’t how to locate the files. “Their stunning lack of a basic understanding for how their software works is egregious and only made worse by the false tweet sent defaming the hardworking employees of Maricopa County,” the county said, in its letter to Fann. • That the broken seals on ballot bags were standard operating procedure. Election day ballots are counted in polling places then sealed into black canvas bags and transported, along with a memory card showing the vote count, by bipartisan teams to the county’s elections headquarters. The bags (other than those used for sample audits) remain sealed until after the election is certified and the challenge period is over. Then, bipartisan teams break the seals and put them into newly sealed boxes for long-term storage. • The “pink slips” – called “Early Voting Transmittal Slips” – do not reflect missing ballots. “Because it is obvious that your contractors have no understanding of these matters,” the county wrote, “a brief tutorial is in order.” Cyber Ninjas have no idea what they're doing The county went into great detail explaining the process but basically, it boils down to this: Ballots that cannot be read by tabulation machines are removed from their batches and sent to a bipartisan Ballot Duplication Board where a duplicate ballot is created and counted, as required by law. What it also boils down to is this: Fann turned over our ballots, our voter information and the county’s tabulation machinery to a bunch of Trump zealots who don’t know what they are doing. So you’ll have to excuse the supervisors if they don’t show up Tuesday on Fann’s carpet or contribute in any way to the “spectacle” that is taking place at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in between high school graduations. "I just want to make it clear I will not be responding to any more requests from this sham process,” Sellers said. “Finish what you're calling an audit, and be ready to defend your report." County officials asked Fann to end the audit, which “has devolved into a circus.” “You are using purple lights and spinning tables,” they wrote. “You are hunting for bamboo. These are not things that serious auditors of elections do. “You are photographing ballots contrary to the laws that the Senate helped enact, and you are sending those images to unidentified places and people. You have repeatedly lost control of your twitter account, which has tweeted things that appear to be the rantings of a petulant child – not the serious statements of a serious audit. “None of this is inspiring confidence.” Mostly, it’s just inspiring late-night comics.
So when is the CyberNinjas going to follow the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)? You know... the required standards for auditing an election. While you are at it please tell us the organization that CyberNinjas is certified with to perform election audits.
Please just answer for us what the real reason is that you are against the audit continuing. By the way, you were against it before it even started. What is your agenda?----I would use the mirror provided.
Why are you calling that farce an audit? When have these clowns audited anything before? What's your agenda when you call some random grifters auditors?
If I ask you, "have you heard of bullshit posts?" Does that mean your posts are bullshit? Is my question evidence that your posts are bullshit? Stop your garbage posting and, 1) Link us to your source evidencing that Mueller was a "never-Trumper." And, 2) Explain to us why Mueller never initiated charges against Trump, if he is a "never-Trumper."
Assuming this, arguendo, how does not finding anything against Trump, by investigators, mean that they are "never-Trumpers?" That's one of the silliest things you've suggested, ever. And that's saying a lot. You do realize Trump had support from Reps. and Dems. And if you want to discuss his Rep. supporters individually, we can. Stop your garbage posting. They did find shit on Trump and others. Mueller didn't proceed against Trump due to an old DOJ memo regarding indicting Presidents. Many others were, in fact, indicted. And if Mueller were a never-Trumper, he would have proceeded against Trump despite the memo. I will continue to illustrate how horribly you lie on this website. Do you ever worry that users of this site will forward your bullshit to the subjects of your false statements? Hope it catches up to you one day. What came out of the Mueller report? Here’s what you need to know in 6 minutes https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/w...port-heres-what-you-need-to-know-in-6-minutes