30, 2020, Rudy Giuliani and several Arizona lawmakers - including state Rep. Records later obtained by American Oversight in June contained a report dated March 1 that indicated that a group called the Citizens’ Non-Partisan Grassroots project had canvassed more than 3,000 homes in Maricopa and Pima Counties in early May, the Justice Department warned that such canvassing could violate federal law.Īrizona supporters of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him had been stoking fears about voter fraud for months in an attempt to undermine a valid democratic election. Moreover, the statement of work signed by Cyber Ninjas indicated that the company planned to engage in direct contact with Arizona voters, the subject of a legal challenge from the group Protect Democracy.
The founder of Cyber Ninjas, Doug Logan, had repeatedly circulated lies that the 2020 election was rigged and vocally supported the “Stop the Steal” movement, including by attacking Dominion Voting Systems and retweeting conspiracy theories. On March 31, 2021, Fann announced that the audit team would be led by the firm Cyber Ninjas. County officials argued that turning over the ballots would violate state law, but in late February a judge ruled that the county must turn them over, leading to confusion when the Senate did not have a place lined up to safely store them. Warren Petersen, who replaced Farnsworth as chair of the Judiciary Committee. Those subpoenas were re-upped in January 2021 by Fann and state Sen. Eddie Farnsworth issued subpoenas to Maricopa County for the 2.1 million ballots as well as election machines and other materials. In fact, an independent audit in February 2021 confirmed that the ballots in the county had been tabulated accurately and that there were no irregularities with the election equipment or software.Īfter the 2020 election, Senate President Karen Fann and then-Arizona Sen. The audit was not based on any evidence of widespread voter fraud, in Maricopa County or elsewhere. These efforts to undermine the election have been especially conspicuous in Arizona, where voter fraud conspiracies are behind a state Senate–led push to conduct a partisan “audit” of votes cast in Maricopa County, which was won by President Joe Biden. “I did check those records and in many cases I found that the people had different political party registrations, they had different voting histories, they had different occupations, so my summary of that is that they were in fact different people,” White told me.Baseless lies about widespread voter fraud and false allegations of a “stolen” 2020 presidential election have inflamed mistrust in democracy and provided the political fuel for hundreds of proposals across the country to enact new barriers to voting. When White, the veteran election analyst, actually did the work of systematically cross-checking the “double voters” in multiple counties against those counties’ databases, he found that they were not “double voters” as Cyber Ninjas and Trump have claimed. The Uproar Over John Fetterman’s Outfits Is Really Missing the Forest for the Trees It’s a phenomenon called “the birthday problem,” Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said.Ĭlarence Thomas’ Latest Pay-to-Play Scandal Finally Connects All the Dotsīiden Is Taking a Step Toward Legalizing Pot In a dataset that large, there are statistically bound to be many, many people with the same name and the same birth year. The audit team didn’t actually compare birth days and months, just birth years.
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