Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, references to to the Arizona audit drew much more enthusiastic applause than even immigration, normally the top hot-button issue on the right in the border state. Pulitzer had pushed unsuccessfully for a statewide audit of Georgia’s election results, even after two recounts by the Republican secretary of state confirmed that Biden won the state. Even judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans have rejected the allegations. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is hiring retired police officers to investigate aspects of the November election, joining with Republicans from around the country who have questioned President Joe Biden’s victory. At a public presentation last week, Logan cited as part of his qualifications that his firm “worked with some of the largest names in the financial services space.” Two of the companies he lists as former clients in his expert witness statement, Citibank and JP Morgan Chase, said through spokespeople that they have no record of hiring Cyber Ninjas. “The fact remains that Fulton County safely and securely carried out an Election Audit in the midst of a public health crisis.

Cris Dush and Doug Mastriano, say they want something similar carried out in Pennsylvania. “If I give you 20 M&Ms, and you want 30, you can keep counting it, but you did not get 30 M&Ms,” said David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, a former Department of Justice voting rights attorney and elections expert. 8. In order to more closely replicate the election day process of counting votes with the Ballot Counting Devices, each set of ballots will be shuffled to intermix the presorted ballots. Organizers say it will take weeks. Sterling would not say. Yesterday for example, a video was unearthed by the Trump team showing Democrat counters in Atlanta pulling out suitcases full of ballots and counting them after sending Republicans home due to a falsely reported water main break (um, this is against the law Mr. Sterling). “Thank you State Senators and others in Arizona for commencing this full forensic audit,” the former president said in a statement. But the Republican-controlled state Senate opened the audit after pressure from former President TrumpDonald TrumpMo Brooks served with Swalwell lawsuit Democratic congressional election review finds party lacked economic, pandemic recovery message in 2020 Courts drowning in backlog pose lingering immigration challenge MORE, who continues to spread unproven and disproven conspiracy theories about the election’s integrity.

A Fulton County, Georgia lawsuit claiming fraud in the 2020 presidential Election Audit has led the judge overseeing the case to heavily consider unsealing ballots, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This process examines folds and fibers in the ballots, as well as ink markings, and was sparked by unproven allegations that thousands of paper ballots were printed in Asia and smuggled into Maricopa County, according to other audit observers. The ballots, computers and other equipment will be stored at the state fairgrounds. Neither will have to disclose donors or account for how the money is spent, and Logan has declined to detail financial information. The man running the operation, Cyber Ninjas chief executive officer Doug Logan, declined through his spokesman to be interviewed. Biden on Wednesday quietly pushed forward with the business of preparing to become America’s next commander in chief. For example, after 2020’s Election Audit Day, Maricopa County was required to conduct a hand count of 52 batches of early ballots-which Bennett said was insufficient to attest to the county’s results, where Biden beat Trump by 45,109 votes. Biden narrowly defeated Trump in the county, a crucial battleground that helped the president win Arizona by around 10,000 votes.

Senate votes from Maricopa County will likely produce results that diverge from the county’s official 2020 results, where Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by 45,109 votes or 2.16 percent. State Senate President Karen Fann (R) will tell the DOJ that ballots are under guard 24 hours a day in the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Bennett added. The Senate and its contractors had rented the Veterans Memorial Coliseum through Friday but only got through a fraction of the 2.1 million ballots they are recounting. The Daily Signal sought comment Friday from the Justice Department about Karlan and the Arizona election audit. To be clear, Maricopa County’s election results have already been audited multiple times by companies with experience in the field, with no issues being uncovered. Fulton County Chair Robb Pitts said in a statement: “It is outrageous that Fulton County continues to be a target of those who cannot accept the results from last year’s election. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who has come under fire from many members of his own party after standing up to Trump’s attempts to overturn the election, offered a more sanguine response to the judge’s ruling.