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Posted May 11, 2022, 8:10 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Posted May 10, 2022, 11:28 pm
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
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»
Posted May 5, 2022, 8:56 am
Dillon Rosenblatt
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Posted Mar 24, 2022, 4:58 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Posted Feb 18, 2022, 10:51 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
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»
Posted Feb 18, 2022, 7:08 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
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»
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Posted Jan 6, 2022, 5:21 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Posted Dec 16, 2021, 6:10 am
Kira Lerner
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Posted Oct 21, 2021, 3:01 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Updated Oct 15, 2021, 5:04 pm
Dylan Smith & Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel.com
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»
Posted Oct 8, 2021, 11:41 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Posted Oct 8, 2021, 9:28 am
Laura Olson
/Arizona Mirror
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»
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Posted Oct 8, 2021, 8:16 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
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»
Posted Oct 6, 2021, 12:32 pm
Laura Olson
/Arizona Mirror
Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, was asked to testify about the Arizona 'audit' by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee. He is refusing to participate.... Read more»
Posted Oct 1, 2021, 2:06 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Shiva Ayyadurai appeared to have absolutely no knowledge of Maricopa County policies and procedures - a shortcoming that would be a consistent theme as he presented his findings as part of the so-called 'audit' of the election in Maricopa County.... Read more»
Posted Sep 27, 2021, 7:56 am
Diannie Chavez & Kimberly Silverio-Bautista/Cronkite News
The contractors investigating Maricopa County’s 2020 elections - after months of work and millions of dollars - spent several hours and more than 100 pages in their report to the Arizona Senate laying out questions they said they could not answer and calling for more investigation.... Read more»