How the Cyber Ninjas ended up delivering what Republicans really wanted in Arizona
By Steven Rosenfeld, Independent Media Institute
Published October 05, 2021
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The election audit contract that Arizona's state Senate leaders signed with the Cyber Ninjas in March 2021 never specified that the pro-Trump firm would produce a report that included a definitive recount of the votes in 2020's presidential race. And as revealed by a close examination of the most detailed data released from the Senate review so far, the Cyber Ninjas' recount is incomplete, inaccurate, and far from definitive.
The document containing the most detailed data, "Arizona Senate Maricopa County Election Audit: Machine Paper Ballot Count Report," was prepared by Randall Pullen, former Arizona Republican Party chair and a former partner with Deloitte & Touche, a nationwide accounting firm. But an October 1 analysis by a bipartisan team of retired election auditors found the data set in Pullen's report does not account for one-third of the ballots that were hand-counted. Moreover, a line-by-line comparison of the data in Pullen's report with Maricopa County's official records shows that nearly half of the figures are missing or wrong.
On September 24, the Cyber Ninjas-led team told the Arizona Senate that Joe Biden won the election in the state's most populous county and gained 99 votes, while Donald Trump lost 261 votes. But their most detailed data presented does not account for nearly 16,000 hand-counted ballots, which is the basis of its reported presidential election results.
https://www.rawstory.com/how-the-cyber-ninjas-ended-up-delivering-what-republicans-really-wanted-in-arizona/
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Mission accomplished.
The media is calling it an audit, like it was a real audit. 
This was a ploy to get the People used to the idea that a private entity can question election results and then demand to see our ballots. Next time they won't wait months after the election, they'll be there the next day. And of course, they'll cherry-pick blue precincts. And who's going to stop them? Not us, obviously, since it seems we're only armed with strongly worded guidance letters.
Here's a story from August 2 with some updated info on a second warning from the DOJ. 
Justice Department issues clearest warning yet on Arizona election audit
https://www.kold.com/2021/08/02/justice-department-issues-clearest-warning-yet-arizona-election-audit/
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In the second guidance issued Wednesday, the department reminded states that federal law protects the right to vote in a “range of different ways,” including voting early or voting by mail. Numerous states approved new voting restrictions this year, that did everything from reducing early voting hours to limiting ballot drop-offs and even making it a crime to provide food or water to people waiting in line to vote.
Arizona lawmakers, for example, changed the state’s Permanent Early Voting List to an Active Early Voting List, which means voters on the list will no longer be mailed an early ballot if they have not voted by mail for two elections.
Both documents from the Justice Department emphasized the “interaction of federal and state law when it comes to regulating the election,” and warned states that regardless of state law, they must comply with federal statutes.
With other states reportedly considering their own audits, Hobbs said she hopes officials will heed the guidance from Justice.
Yeah, right. like that's going to happen.
