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May 12, 2021 13 tweets 3 min read Read on X
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.
While they've counted between 350k-400k ballots, Bennett said not all of those have gone through paper evaluation. Bennett said there's a little bit of a lag in that department.
At the rate they're going, Bennett says the audit team is counting a pallet a day. The team is looking to hire more ballot counters and more people for the paper evaluation stations.
Bennett says the WiFi wasn't enabled on the router attached to a server that @SecretaryHobbs's observers noticed yesterday. He said he didn't know why the router was there in the first place.
Bennett didn't have a timeline for how much longer the audit is expected to take, though his pallet-a-day estimate provides at least a rough outline of how long the count might last.
The audit, of course, will go on hiatus next week during a bunch of graduations scheduled at the coliseum, then resume the week of May 24. Bennett said they'll keep counting as usual on Thursday, then start packing things up Thursday night and finish packing on Friday.
Though @FannKfann told DOJ that the audit indefinitely suspended plans to knock on voters' doors to confirm voter registration info, Bennett said the audit team will still do "spot checks" of some addresses, such as places where large numbers of votes were reported cast.
The Senate and audit team's settlement with the @azdemparty prohibits them from verifying voter signatures on early ballot envelopes, but Bennett said they'll still be checking images of the envelopes to confirm that they at least have signatures on them.
Bennett described the “spot checks” of addresses as in-person checks designed to ensure that an address where several dozen people are listed as voting isn’t a two-bedroom house or a vacant lot. Door-knocking is still suspended indefinitely by Fann.
Audit official @JohnBrakey said there are plans to break down ballot hand count results by precinct when they’re finished and allow skeptics of the results to download a program so they can check the final tally themselves.
Brakey said treasure hunter Jovan Pulitzer, whose tech is being used to search for counterfeit ballots by examining folds and ink marks, is a fake and a fraud. Brakey doesn’t know what Pulitzer is being paid for this, but said, “He found treasure here.”

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