Good morning. I’m on pool duty this morning at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and I’ll be providing audit updates for the next few hours. #azauditpool
Looks like everyone is still mostly getting prepared for the day. Of the 44 counting tables that are set up, only 13 appear to have people at them. It doesn’t look like anyone has started counting yet. #azauditpool
6 of the 13 ballot analysis tables are occupied. They look like they’re examining images at some of them. Others are waiting for things to get started.
Counting has begun at a few of the tables. The rest are still waiting for things to get started.
They’re checking out fresh boxes of uncounted ballots. Some are going to the counting tables, some are going to the evaluation tables.
We’re holding steady at 17 counting tables with people at them, but it looks like only 7 are doing any counting right now.
Things have picked up a little, but not too much. 23 of 44 counting tables are fully or partially staffed, only 9 appear to be counting. 12 of 13 evaluation tables are staffed. #azauditpool
There’s activity at a few more tables. I’ve seen as many as 13 tables counting ballots.
The audit has to clear out of the coliseum on Friday for a slew of graduations scheduled for next week, then they’ll resume the week after that. I’m not seeing any signs that they’re packing things up yet though.
We’ve got upwards of 16-18 tables counting now
They just picked up a couple of Lazy Susans from blue tables and swapped them between the two tables. Not sure what the purpose of that was.
From my vantage point, I can’t see all of what they’re looking at on the laptops at the evaluation tables, but I can see that they’re looking at close-ups of the bubbles that people filled in on their ballots.
That’s something that treasure hunter Jovan Pulitzer claimed his technology uses to detect counterfeit ballots that may have been printed out pre-filled and inserted into the count.

No, there’s no evidence to speak of that such a thing ever happened.
Audit liaison @BennettArizona tells me that he is again in control of the @ArizonaAudit Twitter account. He wouldn’t say exactly who is running it now or who he gave control to when the account went rogue, but he’s in control now, he said.

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12 May
A few audit updates unrelated to Ken Bennett regaining control of the audit's Twitter account ...
Bennett said the audit team has counted between 350k to 400k ballots. They've counted all or part of 16 of the 46 pallets of ballots they received from the county, and broke into the first of the remaining 30 pallets yesterday.
The latest pallet they opened included duplicated ballots -- ballots that couldn't be read because they're damaged, large print, overseas format, Braille or other reasons, and had to be copied onto new ballots.
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11 May
Today's meeting of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is about to begin. You can watch here:
Today is the IRC's first meeting without Yasmin Ramos from ADOA, who's been staffing the commission while it worked on hiring its own staff. "It feels very different without Yasmin," Chairwoman Neuberg says.
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28 Apr
There’s 20 tables where 3-person teams are examining ballots. Each table has a turntable with 2 stands where they put the ballots. Each ballot spends 11-15 seconds on the stand as counters examine them and mark down their findings. #azauditpool
One of the tables has a bracket with a camera they’re using to take images of both sides of the ballots, which appear on a laptop screen. Every counting table had a laptop, but it looks like only one is being used to examine images of the ballots. #azauditpool
At 6 other tables, workers take photos of one side of the ballots with cameras mounted on brackets, and the images go to a laptop. Then another person shines a UV light on it. Then the ballot goes into the cardboard box it was originally stored in. #azauditpool
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27 Apr
The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is about to begin today's meeting. You can watch here:
Here's today's agenda. We'll hear a discussion of the 3 mapping consultants and a possible decision on which firm they'll hire. publicmeetings.az.gov/sites/default/…
While the commissioners were shooting the breeze before the start of the meeting, we learned that Commissioner Mehl's father was a basketball star at the University of Cincinnati.
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26 Apr
BREAKING: Arizona will not gain a 10th congressional seat
Texas will gain 2 new House seats, while Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain one seat.
Arizona has gained at least one seat in every census since the 1960 census. This is the first time since the 1950 census that we won't gain a seat.
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23 Feb
Senate Approps now debating @WendyRogersAZ's SB1653. The bill would create a study committee to examine the possibility of creating a new county out of the northern, predominantly tribal regions of northern Apache and Navajo counties.
This idea has been around for a long time. I covered a similar proposal in 2013. It had some tribal support, most notably from the Navajo Nation president. The new Sitgreaves County would be eligible for state-shared revenue, which tribes aren't.
Gov. Bruce Babbitt vetoed a similar proposal in 1982, saying, "it purports to divide territory. But, what it really divides is people" by drawing county boundaries along racial lines.
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