Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots

[Nevilledog]

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Daniel Dale
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The Arizona “audit” chief said it might be a 74,000-ballot clerical error. Trump seized on the claim to again claim mega-fraud.

It is neither an error nor fraud, as @Garrett_Archer has conclusively shown. Doug Logan fomented suspicion over nothing:

Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots
Arizona's Senate held a Thursday briefing on the ongoing Republican-initiated "audit" of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, where Joe Biden outperformed Donald Trump by enough of a margin to win...
cnn.com
6:20 AM · Jul 18, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/18/politics/fact-check-maricopa-audit-arizona-cyber-ninjas-74000/index.html

(CNN) — Arizona's Senate held a Thursday briefing on the ongoing Republican-initiated "audit" of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, where Joe Biden outperformed Donald Trump by enough of a margin to win the state.

The review is being conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a cybersecurity firm that has no experience in election auditing. And the company's chief executive officer, Doug Logan, made some Thursday claims that were immediately called into question by the county and independent experts.

Here's a brief look at two of them.

The 74,000 ballots

Logan said that door-to-door questioning of Maricopa County voters is the "one way" the auditors could determine whether what they are seeing in the elections data are "real problems" or "clerical errors of some sort."
"For example, we have 74,243 mail-in ballots where there is no clear record of them being sent," he said.

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[Takket]

1. So the ninjas got their chance to drop a steaming pile of billshit

When will the AZ senate let election officials testify under oath about the truth? Oh yeah. They won’t. Because the goal was never to tell the truth but to further undermine our free elections.

[Nevilledog]

2. It's only a couple of Republican senators.....it was never voted on by the whole Senate.

[uponit7771]

3. The recount must have gone really bad for them, they're just making crap up now

[Jim__]

4. So the facts show that either the auditors are completely incompetent or they're just lying.

Who hired these idiots to perform an audit?