Watch here today, as I’m the pool reporter for the Arizona audit this morning!
Shift starts at 8 am but I’m late because I forgot to eat breakfast (mom probs) so stopped somewhere real quick! #azauditpool
I’m here, at what the New York Times called the ‘decrepit local coliseum’ #azauditpool
It's 8:30 am and counting has begun at 4 tables. Still getting up and running here. #azauditpool
George Nemah, of MAAP Real Talk Show, is here in the pool, along with @srl with The Guardian. #azauditpool
Who I've spotted so far:
- Two observers with @SecretaryHobbs office
- Gene Kern with Wake Technology giving advice to a ballot inspection table
- Bryan Blehm, Cyber Ninjas attorney (with shoes)
Ken Bennet has yet to stop by. I have a very long list of questions🙃 #azauditpool
I’m not sure if previous pool reporters noted this, but the observers (orange) now have notebooks/clipboards.
First day of audit, was told all observers would be given a comment form, but we never were. Looks like that’s in place now as their new plan described. #azauditpool
18 tables up and counting at this point. The additional staff that Bennett said would be here Monday are still not here.
One recruiter is a retired police officer who works as an investigator for an extremist right-wing group that warns of "the growing threat of the Marxist and the Islamic movement in America."
Another person involved in recruitment used her brief stint as the county Republican Party chairwoman to try to "get Trump back in office" by protesting the results of one of the county's prior audits. That's Linda, mentioned here.
Anthony Kern, a former state lawmaker who was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 when rioters disrupted Congress, is among the people helping to count and inspect Maricopa County ballots. azcentral.com/story/news/pol…@azcentral
He has served as a counter several days so far. I spotted him on the first day of the audit when I was serving as an observer.
I walked up and asked him to talk to me about why he wanted to serve as a counter. He agreed to talk until someone reminded him he signed an NDA.
Maria was kicked out of her approved shift early tonight. It looks like it was hopefully just a miscommunication. Well, several miscommunications, over and over and over again.