Arizona Election Audit 'Ramping Up' Despite Democrats' Attempts to Derail It

Raymond Wolfe : May 4, 2021
LifeSiteNews.com

The livestreamed audit includes an examination and recount of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Arizona's Maricopa County last year, in addition to a forensic investigation of voting machines and interviews with voters.

(Phoenix, AZ) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The 2020 election audit ordered by the Arizona state senate is moving forward despite Democrats' attempts to obstruct it, said former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett. (Screengrab image)

Bennett, audit liaison for the senate, told local news on Monday that the review is "ramping up" as the second week of counting begins. The livestreamed audit includes an examination and recount of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Arizona's Maricopa County last year, in addition to a forensic investigation of voting machines and interviews with voters.

Bennett said that between 150,000–175,000 ballots have been tallied so far, although the pace is expected to accelerate in the coming days. "They're ramping up the personnel needed," the former secretary of state said, noting that counting tables at the Veteran Memorial Coliseum, the venue for the audit, doubled this week from 20 to 46.

"The first two days were very low counts, but the count is picking up significantly every day," Bennett said. "We're doing things that will get us to a number of ballots per day that will allow us to be done with the counting by May 14."

The coliseum is scheduled to host graduation ceremonies in mid-May, which would require a temporary halt of ballot counting if the election audit is not finished by then. The audit could resume a week later, however, and fair officials have granted access to the site "for as long as we need it," Bennett said.

The ballot review process, led by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based IT firm hired by the senate, involves dozens of volunteer teams, sometimes checking ink or creases or examining ballots with UV lights. Nearly all data from the six truckloads of Maricopa voting machines delivered for inspection have been collected, Bennett reported last week. He told the Gateway Pundit that "now they'll move into phase two, which is analyzing that data."

The Arizona senate has pledged $150,000 for the effort, with other funding coming from FundTheAudit.com, which says that it has raised more than $1.2 million of its $2.8 million goal. The group was founded by election integrity advocate and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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