Presser starting with Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan. @BennettArizona says he’ll intervene if anyone tries to talk about Logan’s tweets. “We’re not here to audit Doug’s opinions.”
Teams of three will sit at these tables, with a camera recording (but not streaming) every table. Logan says this will result in total accountability. 
Counters are only looking at the presidential race and the Senate race - aka the ones @JoeBiden and @SenMarkKelly won. They’ll see scanned ballots and paper copies.
No guarantee that there are enough Dem or independent volunteers to have one at each table. The lawsuit filed by @azdemparty today alleges 70 percent of volunteers are registered Republicans.
Logan says he doesn’t know who is paying for the audit beyond the $150,000 the Senate agreed to pay. He says he would be operating at a loss without additional funds, but won’t share the actual cost.
Doug Logan is now just blinking in response to questions about committing to tell the public about every source of funding.
.@BennettArizona has now committed on tape to sharing all his communications with the audit team under state public records laws. The use of Gmail and proton mail had many concerned they were trying to subvert public record laws.
Re: visiting neighborhoods: Logan says it’s a “statistical analysis based on voting histories.” It sounds like they won’t share that analysis until after the audit is complete.
.@BennettArizona says he’ll do a daily press briefing. Otherwise, it sounds like he’s trying to stick with making press work shifts as volunteer observers for the audit.
.@jjcooper asks how the press can be observers without participating in the audit.
Bennett: “You can’t.”
Bennett: “You can’t.”
There will not be signature validation, but the Senate reserves the right to subpoena them, Bennett says.
He confirms that as of a week ago 70 percent of volunteers were Republican, and blames Democrats for not wanting to participate
That 70 percent figure is for the observers, not the volunteer counters. We don’t know that partisan breakdown
Logan said he definitely won’t release the names of the people who count these ballots.
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