CEO of Cyber Ninjas, firm running the audit. A little history. (He says his bias doesn't matter because he won't be touching the ballots)
2. John Brakey.
A Tucson guy who says he is trying to make this audit fair and transparent by getting a seat at the table.
3. Gene Kern.
Leader of Wake Technology, the firm running the hand count. We learned more about him.
(Including Anthony Kern says Gene is unrelated)
4. Bobby Piton.
A financial adviser who claimed in November he had found voter fraud in Arizona data says he is currently reviewing Arizona voter information. We tried to nail down his actual involvement.
This story outlines more about what we know about the players involved in the Arizona election audit.
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Final thought: As part of working on this story I reached out to @BarnettforAZ because an earlier tweet of his made me wonder if he was getting some insider info on the early results of the audit. He clarified that he is not.
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On Walter Ringfield Jr., arrested for stealing the election security key.
- He was not a Senate employee/was not interning for a certain Senator that he told a security guard he was there to see, according to Dem Senate spokesperson. That senator says he does not know him.
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- He WAS the same person who filed a statement of interest to run for Senate as a Democrat, even though he was not qualified and registered unaffiliated. Earlier info from Recorder was incorrect.
- He was registered Democrat for a week back in Sept. 2016, otherwise unaffiliated.
- DPS said yesterday to check back today about an update as to their investigation.
- He had a status conference at 8:30 today in Maricopa court. An evidentiary hearing is scheduled for tomorrow.
Still seeing claims that the main cause of Election Day problems in Maricopa County was shrunken ballot images (some claiming the county did this purposefully).
Once again, that is not possible..
Why? It takes a bit to explain so follow me. Ballot tabulators (the machines that scan your ballots to count your votes) are very sensitive. Even errant marks cause the tabulators to be rejected.
The image has to be perfect on the page for the tabulator to read it...
The solid rectangles on the sides of the ballot that tell the tabulators where the bubbles are for the contests so they can know what candidate you chose. If those marks are not in the precise location, straight on the paper, the tabulator rejects it.
There's a dispute that's been happening behind the scenes about Maricopa County's Election Day problems that I've been watching unfold for months.
Now that I have all sides of the story, I'm ready to tell it. 👇👇👇
Maricopa County has maintained that there was nothing that should have signaled some of its ballot printers would fail on Election Day in Nov, causing widespread problems.
But the company that made the printers say the risk was clear.
Lake's attorney is giving opening. He doubles down on claim that the county workers didn't verify voter signatures on mail-in ballots at all.
Showing a video he says shows worker moving too quickly to check sigs - but in doing that is acknowledging that this activity happened.
Lake's attorney is emphasizing that workers had in-depth training on how to verify signatures. But "simply clicking through the computer screen like a woodpecker" isn't verifying signatures.
But will judge consider HOW it was done? He asked them to prove they didn't do it AT ALL
Her claim, according to the judge, is that the higher-level employees reviewing voter signatures on mail-in ballots conducted no signature verification at all. He tells her to prove it with evidence & prove she lost because of it.
Her briefings so far have acknowledged that hundreds of ballots were rejected for bad signatures.
The number of early ballots rejected for “bad” voter signatures more than doubled for the midterm, my analysis here found: arizona.votebeat.org/2023/3/30/2366…