Arizona Senator: State Lawmakers Prepared to Act on Findings From Election Audit

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Arizona Senator: State Lawmakers Prepared to Act on Findings From Election Audit

June 15, 2021



The Arizona legislature is ready to take action if the election audit taking place in the state's largest county uncovers irregularities, a state senator said.

"It'll be our duty to act in whatever way is appropriate," Arizona  Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican who has been closely tracking the audit  in Maricopa County... Auditors, led by Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, started reviewing  ballots from the 2020 election at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix  last month, along with machines used in the contest and other election  materials. Auditors expect to finish their work by the end of this  month. They will then produce a report outlining what they found. Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican who authorized the audit, said last month that she thinks some irregularities will be uncovered. Alexander Kolodin, who formerly represented Cyber Ninjas and remains a  lawyer for the Arizona GOP, said in a recent interview that the audit  "is going to show that something went wrong, because something goes  wrong in every election." "I think even Maricopa County would probably admit that the question  is, to what degree did it go wrong? Okay, that's question one. It went wrong, and someone caused it to  go wrong...

If the audit reveals fraud, then there would be a referral to law enforcement authorities, according to Fann. The Arizona Senate would focus on closing any loopholes in the election system.  Speaking just hours after spokespersons for the audit shot down rumors that hundreds of thousands of ballots were found missing, Rogers said she's not sure what auditors will uncover. "As of now we do not know what the results will be," she said.The first-term state senator, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot, has  been keeping close tabs on the audit. She has been a regular presence at  the coliseum, consulting with Cyber Ninjas... Delegations from over a dozen states, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, have visited the audit in recent weeks.

"They want to come in to see what a gold standard forensic audit is  and this is a real deep dive into not only counting the ballots, but  looking at the machines and interestingly, examining very closely, microscopically if you will, the ballots themselves," she said. "They have been blown away." Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Republican who toured the  coliseum, told The Epoch Times last week that he was impressed by what  he saw. He recommended lawmakers from battleground states go to Arizona  to tour the facility.... Read more ...

Arizona Senator: State Lawmakers Prepared to Act on Findings From Election Audit
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