All of my dear friends on twitter that are claiming that the #azaudit has already found 250,000 votes and using lots of words in caps and exclamation points. This picture shows how many boxes they have gotten through. That's...not 250,000.
I forgot to put the word fraud in there. But...well they haven't found 250,000 votes either so the tweet stands.
There are also boxes in the other half of the intake cage that appear to be done. It is my understanding that ballot boxes are supposed to move from one side of the room (intake cage) to the other. This might have changed. Hopefully this will clear up when processes are released.
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.