In August, a judge ruled that Cyber Ninjas must turn over audit-related documents by mid-September, following a pair of public records lawsuits from the Arizona Republic and the transparency group American Oversight.īut despite the judge upholding that ruling last week, Cyber Ninjas has not complied, stating that it might release some documents after its audit report this week-and in some cases, maybe never at all.
The months-long effort has been a fiasco both technically (auditors caused nearly $3 million in damage to voting machines and caught COVID en masse) and politically (Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan was revealed to be an election truther who collaborated with Trump attorney Sidney Powell on voter fraud theories). Khanna: Anyone, including the former president, who is saying that the audit somehow suggests that Donald Trump won the Arizona election, that would be a wrong and false interpretation of the audit, correct?īennett: I would say that he’s probably making that statement based on his opinions of other things in the audit.Days before the long-delayed conclusion of an Arizona vote “audit” of the 2020 election-one that conspiracy blogs trumpeted as the “MOST TRANSPARENT AUDIT EVER”-the conspiratorial group behind the effort is fighting a court order to turn over internal documents.Ĭyber Ninjas, an obscure Florida tech company with no prior elections experience, has been leading a chaotic review of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2020 presidential election since April. The Maricopa audit found that the results were very similar to what Maricopa County canvassed in the official results. I was asked by the Senate to be the liaison to the Maricopa audit. Khanna: So, when President Trump says, “We won the Arizona forensic audit yesterday at a level that you wouldn’t believe,” and said of President Biden, “He didn’t win Arizona, he lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit,” that is false, correct? … That is not a true statement, correct?īennett: I would not characterize it that way. Khanna: Do you think Joe Biden is the legitimately elected president? Bennett, given your statement, did Cyber Ninjas’ hand count show that Joe Biden won more votes than Donald Trump in Maricopa County? Ayyadurai, who has spread conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine and made false claims that 1 million ballots were destroyed in his own failed primary bid in Massachusetts, was replaced as a Republican witness at the last minute by Senate liaison to the partisan review Ken Bennett. Second, Shiva Ayyadurai, the former Republican electoral candidate who made multiple false claims as part of his “analysis” of signatures on Maricopa County ballot envelopes, did not show up as originally scheduled. The Only Way Lindsey Graham’s Abortion Ban Makes Political Sense
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