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Mark Finchem has built a national profile as a key proponent of misinformation about the 2020 elections.

The testimony of Oro Valley Republican Mark Finchem to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection sheds gives new insight into a man who has been instrumental in misinformation around Arizona’s electoral process.  Read more»

Screenshot from 'The Deep Rig' of Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan.

Michigan AG Dana Nessel has petitioned to name a special prosecutor to investigate Doug Logan, Ben Cotton and others who falsely believed the election was stolen from Donald Trump and then set out to gather evidence by gaining access to ballot tabulators. Read more»

The Senate audit began April 23, 2021, in Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

Newly released documents by the watchdog group American Oversight show that the Arizona Senate’s partisan review of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County went over its proposed budget and spent more money than it had available to it. Read more»

Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan (left) testifies to the Senate on July 15, 2021.

The Arizona Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over whether the Arizona Senate has the authority to conceal records from an "audit" of the 2020 presidential election that found President Joe Biden was lawfully elected. Read more»

The Senate’s 'audit' team presented its report on Sept. 24, 2021. L to R: Ben Cotton of CyFIR, Doug Logan of Cyber Ninjas, Randy Pullen.

The Arizona Senate has spent more than $500,000 in taxpayer money related to the partisan election review it conducted in 2021, including on legal battles over public records and access to the audit facility. Read more»

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are being examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona State Senate at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. In doing so, they are using unproven technology that claims it can identify counterfeit ballots. There have been no credible claims that any ballots in Arizona or elsewhere were counterfeited.

Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation system was never connected to the internet during the 2020 election and there were no routers to inspect, concluded a team of experts assembled by former Congressman John Shadegg as part of the so-called “audit” of the last presidential election. Read more»

Voting would return to 19th Century methods — with their glacial pace and flawed accuracy -– and reduce voter access under legislation Republicans approved in a legislative committee that would ban machines from counting votes, critics said. Read more»

Mike Lindell introduces Shiva Ayyadurai at his Cyber Symposium in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Aug. 11, 2021. Lindell promoted the event as when he would provide proof that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, but no such evidence was presented.

Shiva Ayyadurai, the subcontractor who conducted a botched analysis of Maricopa County’s ballot affidavits as part of the Senate’s review of the 2020 election, slammed the “audit” leaders as “self-serving grifters” in a new report. Read more»

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Jack Sellers (left) and Thomas Galvin (right) listen to Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer during a hearing at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Maricopa County Elections Department officials were responding to claims about the 2020 General Election made by Senate contractors Cyber Ninjas, CyFIR, and EchoMail.

Nearly every claim that Senate President Karen Fann’s so-called audit team made about the 2020 general election was either inaccurate, misleading or patently false, according to a long-awaited rebuttal by Maricopa County. Read more»

Phil Waldron at a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing on Dec. 2, 2020.

Phil Waldron, the suddenly famous election denier behind the circulation of a PowerPoint filled with plans to overturn the 2020 election and one of the proponents of the "audit" in Maricopa County, has a long history of election subversion attempts in multiple states. Read more»

Watkins announced his candidacy five days after registering to vote in Maricopa County.

Ron Watkins, the notorious MAGA conspiracy theorist who helped spread the violent far-right QAnon conspiracy and who is widely believed to have been behind QAnon’s master account, is attempting to unseat Democratic Congressman Tom O’Halleran. Read more»

Trump during a re-election campaign rally in Tucson, October 2020.

Donald Trump continued his election grievance campaign Friday with a new claim that the 2020 election in Pima County was "rigged and stolen" from him, emailing supporters about supposed "staggering anomalies and fictitious votes." Read more» 2

The Senate’s 'audit' team presented its report on Sept. 24, 2021. L to R: Ben Cotton of CyFIR, Doug Logan of Cyber Ninjas, Randy Pullen.

Findings of the “audit” of the 2020 election regarding voters allegedly casting ballots from the wrong address, deleted files, improper internet connections and improperly verified early ballot envelopes are false or misleading, according to a rebuttal that Maricopa County issued. Read more»

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Oct. 7, 2021. The hearing was held to examine a Republican-led Arizona 'audit' of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County. Photo by

It didn’t take long for Thursday’s congressional hearing about a controversial ballot review in Arizona to demonstrate the persistent misinformation about the validity of last year’s presidential election as Arizona Republican Andy Biggs incorrectly claimed "we don't know" who won. Read more»

Doug Logan spoke to podcast hosts Joe Oltmann and Max McGuire, choosing not to testify before the congressional committee to defend the controversial election review.

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. Read more»

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