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»
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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»
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»
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»
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»
Since the Arizona Senate’s self-styled “audit” of the Maricopa County 2020 election began in April, it has been cheered on by right-wing media entities personalities, and documents released by the Senate show just how deep the relationship they have with the auditors goes.... Read more»
A federal judge in Washington D.C. ruled that defamation lawsuits against Trump attorneys Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell can move forward — denying each of the three parties’ motions to dismiss the $1.3 billion Dominion Voting Systems lawsuits.
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Dominion Voting Systems, the company that provides Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation machines, filed several new defamation lawsuits against people and organizations that have promoted false claims of election fraud, including leading fundraisers of Arizona’s election review. ... Read more»
The five pro-Trump organizations that have paid a combined almost $5.7 million to fund the Arizona Senate’s 'audit' are hardly household names, though several have been at the forefront of former President Donald Trump’s false narrative that fraud marred the 2020 election.... Read more»
The leader of the Arizona Senate’s election review released a list of financial contributors, showing the 'audit' has been funded by organizations that have aggressively promoted baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election — and in some cases sought to overturn results.... Read more»2
The official Twitter account of Arizona's 'audit' and a semi-official account dubbed the “Audit War Room” were permanently suspended Tuesday - as were multiple other accounts related to election reviews in other states - for violating rules on platform manipulation and spam. ... Read more»
Though Doug Logan, the leader of Arizona’s 'audit' team and the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, never said that 74,000 votes were illegally cast or improperly counted, people are falsely claiming the 'audit' showed that tens of thousands of illegitimate votes were counted in Maricopa County.... Read more»
A new group linked to conspiracy theorist and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, who vowed to “release the Kraken” in a series of lawsuits that alleged massive and coordinated fraud in the election, says it is raising money to fund the Arizona Senate’s so-called election 'audit'.... Read more»
Randomized controlled trials — the highest standard of evidence — have found that hydroxychloroquine isn’t beneficial in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients, yet social media posts are claiming the drug works, and conservative outlets have touted an unpublished, and much-criticized, observational study as evidence of the drug’s effectiveness.... Read more»
Observers of a Legislature-sponsored review of election results in Arizona’s largest county alleged that “copies of voting system data” were sent to an unnamed lab in Montana with little explanation.... Read more»
A filmmaker known for a film that claims 9/11 was an alien conspiracy is directing a documentary promoting baseless election fraud claims — a movie that features people working for the Arizona Senate’s election 'audit', that was filmed at the 'audit' site and is based on a book written by a man who is raising money from Trump supporters to fund the 'audit'. ... Read more»
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