This Arizona "Audit" become more a joke day after day.... The "auditors" in Arizona are using UV lights to examine the ballots. Do the ballots have COVID or something? Auditors hide donors, look for secret watermarks on ballots https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/202...donors-look-for-secret-watermarks-on-ballots/ What the Senate election audit lacks in transparency, it makes up for in QAnon conspiracy theories. From the Arizona Senate to the cybersecurity company overseeing the audit of nearly 2.1 million ballots from the November election, everyone involved has said one way or another that they want and hope to be transparent about the process, but to date, there is little evidence to support those claims. While media outlets across the state had to fight and threaten legal action to receive limited access to the Madhouse on McDowell – dubbed so decades ago for raucous Phoenix Suns games – unanswered, important questions still hang in the air. TRANSPARENCY Former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, the Senate liaison for the audit, hasn’t disclosed any private contributors helping to fund the audit. The Senate and Cyber Ninjas, the firm overseeing the process, agreed on a $150,000 contract that will come from taxpayers, but it is known that there is a lot of money pouring in from outside sources, including One America News Network, which pushes the far-right agenda. Bennett has stated his intention for transparency on the private funding, but has yet to accomplish that. Bennett said April 27 he will try to have the money go through the state Senate so it can be tracked as a public record. Currently, the private money is going directly to Cyber Ninjas, whose CEO Doug Logan has repeatedly refused to disclose any information. “I am going to fight with every ounce of breath I have to make sure that all of that money goes through the Arizona Senate, and is publicly disclosed,” Bennett said. If any money does go to the Senate, it would go through the Legislative Council, not directly to senators. However, according to Legislative Council, the body that would actually accept any “gifts” the Senate receives, no one has asked about the possibility of setting up a mechanism to receive these donations. Mike Braun, Legislative Council executive director, said Arizona Capitol Times reporters were the only ones who have even broached the topic to him. He said that this isn’t one of those times where “the answer is no, but the check will be here by two o’clock.” “Nobody’s ever talked to us about setting it up or doing it, or what the requirements would be,” Braun said. Bennett declined to say whether former President Trump was sending money to back the audit, but he said MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has not donated money. While simultaneously claiming the money would become public, Bennett plugged the Trump-friendly One America New Network-backed501(c)(4) organizations fundraising for the audit, directing people to its website to donate during the brief press conference. He said the source of those nonprofits’ funding will “get disclosed … when all the 501(c)(4) contributors get disclosed.” That might be a while, considering 501(c)(4) organizations are “dark money” nonprofits that aren’t required to disclose donors. Bennett also urged people to visit a website if they wanted to give money to the audit. The site – also a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization – is hoping to raise $2.8 million. The nonprofit, The America Project, is run by former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who has close ties to Trump, Lindell and others in that inner circle. Meanwhile, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled on April 28 that policies and procedures for the audit conducted by Cyber Ninjas and its subcontractors is considered a public record, but the ruling is likely pending appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court. To date, a coalition of media publications had to fight with the Senate, Bennett and Cyber Ninjas over allowing members of the press to be in the room as the audit is being conducted. It took until the fourth day of counting ballots before media got inside Veterans Memorial Coliseum to report. From day one of the auditing process, media outlets could only gain access to the venue if they volunteered to participate as an observer without being able to report, but attorneys for media organizations struck a deal to allow one pool reporter at a time in. Before that, only one reporter, Jen Fifield from The Arizona Republic, was granted access (a Capitol Times reporter was denied after signing up) and became a key part of the story when she noticed blue pens were about to be used and urged Logan to remedy it. Now, there’s a rotation of media outlets who can observe from the bleachers inside the coliseum during several shifts in a day. CONSPIRACY While Arizona media fights for access, journalists and election officials are also fighting to debunk persisting conspiracy theories Bennett and others involved with the audit are pushing. The 2020 election gave rise to many conspiracy theories of a stolen election, and some are still alive as auditors count the ballots. The most prevalent conspiracy theory is that the auditors are using ultraviolet light to scan ballots to look for secret watermarks the Trump administration placed on “official ballots.” That repeatedly-debunked theory began from the QAnon community. QAnon emerged after Trump’s election, claiming that Trump is fighting an elite cabal of business leaders, celebrities, media professionals and politicians engaged in Satanic worship and child sex trafficking. One of its rumored leaders, who might be “Q” himself, according to a recent HBO documentary series is Ron Watkins, who does not live in the United States. He has gotten heavily involved with the Maricopa County audit through the instant-messaging app Telegram. Watkins, on the social media channels he has not been banned from, goes by the moniker CodeMonkeyZ. He has posted more than a dozen times about the audit, claiming he has seen wrongdoing on the livestream cameras. Bennett would not answer questions about Watkins’ possible involvement. It’s unclear how involved Watkins is in the audit, but there is a host of connections between him and the auditors, including that Watkins and Cyber Ninja CEO Doug Logan retweeted each other after the election. Watkins claimed Trump actually received 200,000 more votes in Arizona than he did, which Logan shared on his now-deleted account. On the message board, Watkins commented that he has been talking with Bobby Piton, a mathematician and investment manager who has theorized that the election was stolen. Piton attended the unofficial legislative hearing in November at the Hyatt in Phoenix as an expert witness and posted on social media that he spent “12 hours working on AZ Data” over the weekend. The two agree that UV light will expose all the fake votes. “Called [Piton] earlier and had a chat about the potential use of the UV light station,” Watkins wrote. “Since UV is able to detect oil from fingerprints, if there are no fingerprints on the ballot then the likelihood of the ballot being marked through a non-human process is high.” Watkins also complained that volunteers weren’t doing the UV process properly. In an interview with Newsmax, another right-wing channel, Bennett confirmed they were looking for watermarks. Maricopa County Elections Department recently said their ballots do not have watermarks on them. Bennett said auditors “are looking for a lot of things” with the UV light.
They would find 'missing ballots' if they send in Tree Frog and smallfil and Fortune Teller and Jem to do the counting. BUSTED: Capitol insurrectionist is counting ballots at controversial Arizona election audit An Arizona Republican who traveled to Washington, D.C. for the January 6th insurrection is now counting ballots at the controversial Arizona audit. Former Arizona state Rep. Anthony Kern posted a photo of the insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Kinematic scanner and door to door canvassing will expose the fraud. They are narrowing the target areas to canvass.
Let's see who is terrified of ANTIFA.... while ANTIFA is not the least bit interested in their audit. The Cyber Ninjas Still Trying to Steal Arizona for Trump Are Terrified of ‘Antifa’ The “Stop the Steal”-linked group accidentally published a top-secret security brief outlining their concerns. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgx...izonas-election-audit-are-terrified-of-antifa
UV lights, cars with Trump bumper stickers and a lack of transparency illustrate ongoing GOP-driven ballot review in Arizona https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/arizona-ballot-audit-republicans/index.html At the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, workers line up in their cars to check in with uniformed security. As each car files into the fairgrounds, they park next to the "Crazy Times Carnival," complete with the familiar sights of summer — a Ferris wheel, funnel cake and balloon games. But these workers are not headed to the carnival. They're going inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum to engage in a different sort of spectacle. They're ballot counters, working on yet another tally of the nearly 2.1 million ballots in Arizona's most populous county, Maricopa. But the agency directly overseeing these workers is not a governmental one, unlike the two previous audits directed by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. This audit is instead being driven by Republicans in the state Senate, perpetuating the falsehood that the 2020 election was filled with widespread voter fraud -- and thus stolen from former President Donald Trump. The audit, which began last week, has continued amid court hearings and questions over procedures and transparency. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin, in a victory for the Republican-controlled state Senate, ruled Thursday that this third ballot review could continue. In the ruling, the judge said he anticipated appeals to any of his decisions, raising expectations of more legal battles to come. "Craziness" is how Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, describes what he was witnessing at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. "... It's really bothersome." Sellers is talking about the little-known tech company called Cyber Ninjas, a Sarasota, Florida, contractor hired by the GOP-controlled Arizona Senate to conduct this tally. This so-called review, deeply disputed by bipartisan groups from the Republican-led Maricopa County Supervisors to the Arizona Democratic Party, is the third to examine the 2020 ballots cast in the county. President Joe Biden won the swing state by 10,457 votes, flipping the longtime Republican state blue for the first time since 1996, when Bill Clinton narrowly won Arizona. Since the election, Trump and his allies have been peddling lies and distrust in the 2020 results, and specifically in Maricopa County, which has a long history of bipartisan, public faith in its mail-in ballots and overall election security. There was little expression of election faith from the ballot counting workers CNN saw as they lined up heading into the Arizona State Fairgrounds. What they did display was openly partisan views. Their cars bore bumper stickers that read, "Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Trump," and other conservative insignias, like the "Don't Tread on Me" symbol. "Are you from OAN?" one of the ballot counters asked CNN. When reporters identified themselves, the woman rolled up her window and drove on. OAN, or the One America News Network, is a small, far-right wing outlet that has promoted false claims that Trump won the 2020 election. Trump had previously encouraged his supporters to turn to OAN, angered when Fox News, a longtime Trump favorite, was the first media outlet to call Arizona for Biden. OAN's hosts have publicly urged their followers on social media to donate to cover the costs of the Arizona audit. OAN is also the host of the live stream from the ballot counting floor in the coliseum, which Ken Bennett, the hired representative for the Arizona state senate, touted as proof of "transparency." The process has been far from transparent. No independent reporters were allowed inside the Coliseum until a group of Arizona news agencies and their lawyer won access inside for one pool reporter, one videographer and one photographer at any one time. Sellers, the Maricopa Board of Supervisors chairman, called such open bias among supposed election workers astonishing. "When you accept responsibility for an election, it can't be about a party," he said. "It can't be about a person. It has to be about representing all the voters." Maricopa's supervisors -- four out of five of whom are Republicans -- initially refused to release the 2020 ballots to the Arizona state Senate. The Senate, with broad subpoena powers, took the county board to court and a judge ordered the supervisors to comply. The state Senate and its contractor, Cyber Ninjas, now have a lease at the State Fair's Coliseum that expires on May 14. On the first day the independent pool reporter was allowed inside, a news camera caught the unusual process of ballots being scanned with UV lights. Bennett, the former Arizona secretary of state hired by Republicans to serve as an audit liaison, told reporters earlier in the week that "the UV lights are looking at the paper, and it's part of several teams that are involved in the paper evaluation." When CNN asked if he could specify the purpose the UV lights served, he said he did not know. Under order by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Martin, Cyber Ninjas on Thursday released some of their procedures, including acknowledging the use of UV lights. In the Cyber Ninjas document, however, it wasn't clearly explained why they were needed. Another Cyber Ninjas document revealed security plans for the coliseum where the audit is being performed. Called "The Arizona Audit Security Overview," it lays out potential security breaches, numbers of private security guards and singles out "Antifa" as a security threat. The document shows that Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey denied a request for members of the Department of Public Safety and National Guard members to provide security. (Trump has often attacked Ducey for his loss in Arizona, and the state Republican Party censured the governor earlier this year.) Instead, private security firms, including a volunteer organization known as the Arizona Rangers, have been hired to protect the ballots and election equipment. Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit attempting to stop the ballot review, called the entire exercise a "fishing expedition." She warned what was happening at the Arizona State Fair could be repeated elsewhere, believing this is the next page in the Trump playbook of the "Big Lie." "They cried and cried for an audit for months and they finally got it," said Hobbs. "And they're going to try to use this and get it to other places too."
LOL. Spikey Trader is so, so funny. Dems are classic cheaters. They learn it in high school in order to graduate.
When you're conducting an audit of your state's votes, maybe it's a good idea NOT to let someone who participated in the 1-6 riots have access to the ballots? Not very good optics, Arizona GOP.