Over and over the report notes there were no consistent procedures in reading ballots, tallying ballots and storing the ballots. The report calls the Senate-run recount "secretive and disorganized." It reiterates most of the issues Hobbs has cited for months lack of security, shifting processes for screening and counting ballots, chain of custody and transparency problems. "It is clear that any 'outcomes' or 'conclusions' that are reported from the Senate's review, by the Cyber Ninjas or any of their subcontractors or partners, are unreliable," Hobbs' report says. Hobbs, the Arizona secretary of state and a 2022 Democratic candidate for governor, issued a 46-page report pre-butting the audit's results, too. The finalization of the audit - and the potential for the report detailing its results to soon become public - has led Republican and Democratic elections officials in Arizona, including GOP officials in Maricopa County, to warn that it should not be taken seriously.
"Senate team will then review for accuracy and clarity for final report which will be released publicly," state Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, tweeted last week. The Senate team, will review the report and could ask Cyber Ninjas for further clarifications of its findings. Trump issued a raft of false statements ahead of a campaign-style rally in the state last month, and used the rally to repeat those lies.īennett told CNN he wanted to "spread fact, not rumor" that this would only be a draft report and it would not be made public. But that hasn't stopped former President Donald Trump and his allies - particularly far-right, pro-Trump propaganda outlets - from claiming otherwise and saying that other states should follow Arizona's lead in conducting audits. No matter the results of the audit, the reality that Joe Biden is president and won Arizona's 11 electoral votes last year will not change. Observers from Democratic secretary of state Katie Hobbs' office have repeatedly noted instances in which those conducting the audit have broken their own rules.Īnd the partisan nature of the audit and its funders - $5.7 million came from outside, conservative sources, compared to just $150,000 from the Arizona state Senate, which ordered the audit - has long cast serious doubt on its credibility.
The company and its volunteers and subcontractors did not follow standard auditing procedures.
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