Enlarge / Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, who was employed by the Arizona State Senate, study and recount ballots from the 2020 normal election at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Could 1, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Maricopa County poll recount comes after two election audits discovered no proof of widespread fraud. (credit score: Courtney Pedroza/Getty Photographs)
In a improvement that’s positive to stir up a thousand conspiracy theories, a report from the presidential election “audit” in Arizona has been delayed as a result of COVID-19 has swept by means of the non-public firm working the present.
“The workforce anticipated to have the complete draft prepared for the Senate in the present day, however sadly, Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and two different members of the five-person audit workforce have examined optimistic for COVID-19 and are fairly sick,” Arizona Senate President Karen Fann stated in a press release. It’s not clear whether or not any of the folks have been vaccinated towards the virus.
Although state Republicans launched the spectacle, politicians from each events have panned the so-called audit. Election consultants have known as the train “deeply reprehensible,” saying that it extra carefully resembles a “clown present” than an audit. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, all however one in every of whom are Republicans, stated in a letter, “Your ‘auditors’ are in means over their heads.”
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