On January 29, the Arizona Senate President announced the hiring of an independent, qualified firm to conduct a full legal audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results. Pictured here are people holding signs at an anti-election theft rally last December 19, asking “County Commissioners, what are you hiding?”
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann announced on Friday, Jan. 29, that the state will select an independent, qualified audit firm to conduct a full legal audit of the questionable Maricopa County 2020 election results to stop the county from hiding any election injustices.
Fein said there are two main reasons the Senate needs to retain its own independent audit firm. “The Senate has been calling for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to certify an auditor to do this work, but we now understand that the EAC will not certify the auditor as such.”
Another major reason, she said, “The (actual) scope of the audit would have to be broader than the audit proposed by the firm selected by the county. The firm we (select) will perform everything we ask for in the subpoena. We must restore confidence that the reported election results were by legitimate voting methods. A Senate forensic audit will bring accuracy and detail to the election process, thereby restoring integrity to the process.”
Last Dec. 14, the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for a forensic audit of the county’s Dominion voting machine software and ballots after a six-hour hearing reached the preliminary conclusion that the Maricopa County election was fraudulent.
Facing huge challenges from the state to private citizens, Maricopa County’s county commissioners refused the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoena request and did not turn over the voting machines, and challenged the state’s authority to take the matter to court, resulting in a backlash from both the state Senate and the Electoral College.
It wasn’t until Wednesday (Jan. 27) that the Maricopa County Commission, under pressure to claim to allay some voters’ concerns about the integrity of the November 2020 election, voted at its meeting that day to conduct an audit of the county’s election system. But only if the two independent firms conducting the audit are hired by the county itself.
Such an audit, however, is unlikely to meet the state Senate’s requirements. Maricopa County has also rejected the state Senate’s previous request for an audit, arguing that the state’s request was too broad. Arizona State Senator Warren Peterson, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, believes that a Maricopa County audit would not eliminate the need for a Senate audit, and that the county’s audit would be limited to a superficial scope, and that nothing would ultimately be found because the scope is so limited.
Maricopa County chose two firms to audit their election results,” he said. Unfortunately, their limited scope did not meet the requirements of our subpoena, which called for an in-depth forensic audit. We needed to do more than just a basic check of the machines to make sure they were working properly; we needed to check the ballots and ballot scans for anomalies, see if the machines were rigged in any way, and make sure no one had changed the results by remote or local access.”
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