Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, spoke about the progress of the contentious review in a Memorial Day video posted to Twitter and addressed a report that the GOP-led legislature is reviewing yet another recount that goes beyond the current probe of ballots especially for the Senate and presidential election.
"As for 'America's Audit,' counting continues today, and the latest total has hit 1 million ballots evaluated and hand-counted. That's in large part due to more volunteer counters in place, and that gets us to nearly 50% of the 2.1 million 2020 ballots cast in Maricopa County," Ward said.
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The audit, which is being driven by the firm Cyber Ninjas and has been taking place in Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix since April with a one-week break for high school graduations, is still supposed to end in late June, she added.
"We also know there has been additional discussion among the Arizona Senate and the auditors regarding the possibility of hiring a California-based election transparency group called Citizens Oversight to run an entirely electronic recount of digital images of ballots to count all votes cast for every single race on the county's ballots. These totals could be used in every race to compare totals with official totals for Maricopa County and from the audit itself," she said.
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The decision will ultimately fall to Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann and her team continued Ward, who also said that Fann and Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Warren Petersen would take the lead on writing progress about the audit, excluding that responsibility from Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state who was picked to be the Senate's audit liaison.
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Maricopa County officials and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, have taken the lead in increasing concerns about the process and security of the audit. Experts say that the results from two previous election machine audits, conducted for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, showed no abnormalities in the county's 2020 election. There was also a recount of a unit of ballots that did not turn up any puzzles. The audit began only after the Arizona Senate got a favorable decision from a judge that found its warrants to be "legal and enforceable."
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Ward said that "attacks on the audit have never waned" and "we can only expect them to continue and ramp up considerably as we get closer to the end of ballot counting."
The audit is being "undermined by the distorted lens of the Democrats and their partners on the far Left and in the mainstream media," she continued, listing out monikers such as "the bogus audit, the Republican audit, the fake audit, the fraudit, the right-wing inquisition."
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