They are having technical difficulties. The judge cannot hear any of the lawyers but they (and we) can hear them.
Now there is just a screeching feedback sound. Someone send in an AV person stat!
They are talking to the judge. Technical difficulties seem to be solved.
Judge preliminary assessment
-Gallardo has standing
-Legislature does not have immunity
-Senate has authority to audit
-authority to audit must be balanced by protection of voters constitutional rights.
-Some EPM procedures apply to post-election audit.
Kolodin wants everything under seal for security reasons and because of the bad actors that may try to manipulate the floor count.
Trying to juggle to much. Watch @arizonaslaw live tweet. They will do a much better job of this than I anyway.
Senate Republicans closing in on an audit team, name not released yet. As mentioned yesterday, they have reached out to some recorders to lead a bipartisan hand recount.
One thing to remember: Recorders don't count ballots. Election departments do.
Coconino county is the only remaining jurisdictions that is joint recorder/elections department. The prudent thing to do would be to ask election directors to lead a hand recount. They are direct reports to the county BOS.
I have spoken to a few of my friends in the election world out here. Anecdotally, there was unanimous agreement that hand counting 2.1 million ballots and expecting 100% would be a logistical nightmare.