Thread by @ben_giles

Not sure if this link will work for everyone, but it appears the @AZSenateGOP's media event is up and running. Follow here:
azleg.gov/videoplayer/?c…

@AZSenateGOP No one was allowed to attend in person, so sorry to those who can't watch the feed reliably (me included -- it's cut in and out several times already.)

.@AZSenateDems weren't allowed in either. This isn't your usual "hearing" at the #azleg. There's no specific committee hosting this, just Senate President @FannKfann and Judiciary Chair @votewarren.

https://twitter.com/SenQuezada29/status/1394744621855436804

.@votewarren asks why this new election review is so important, so DIFFERENT from the many checks and balances already in following the election.

Logan says the other audits were focused on "software," as well as a logic and accuracy testing.

Logan then says @AZSenateGOP's audit is focused on results -- were the results accurate?

That's exactly what the logic and accuracy test does. It determines: Did the system count votes accurately? A partial hand count helped confirm that.

Ken Bennett, @FannKfann's liaison, says there's a misunderstanding about what "chain of custody" docs the Senate has demanded from the county.

Bennett says they want a record of what happened to the ballots between Nov. 3, election day, and April 22.

This hits different knowing that the bipartisan Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and other county officials, Republicans and Democrats alike, unanimously blasted the @AZSenateGOP audit yesterday.

Today's event features just two GOP state senators.

https://twitter.com/Rios_Rebecca/status/1394749743121661952

A big part of this @AZSenateGOP event has been framing Maricopa County officials as reneging on promises -- for example, to turn over routers.

Bennett has said multiple times the county assured him in April the routers would be turned over. The county has not...

...The county has said it'd be a dramatic security risk, since those routers direct traffic across dozens of county agencies, including @maricopacounty sheriff's department.

.@maricopacounty is addressing some questions from the @AZSenateGOP event in real time. I'll try to post their updates.

First answer on chain of custody from Election Day to April 22, when the ballots were delivered to the Coliseum.

https://twitter.com/maricopacounty/status/1394751323954769923

@maricopacounty @AZSenateGOP Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, says @maricopacounty is overstating security concerns about handing over routers to the @AZSenateGOP's private firms.

The Senate's firms say they need the routers to ensure election equipment wasn't hooked to the internet.

I did not understand this, so I defer to @Garrett_Archer:

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1394752955870449669

.@FannKfann and others expressing frustration because @maricopacounty officials 'won't help.' The county took the position that they'd comply with the subpoena, but wouldn't participate in the Senate's election review.

And @maricopacounty officials now say that some of the questions raised by @AZSenateGOP's private firms -- being aired at this quasi-public hearing -- just show that those firms lack election experience. For example:

https://twitter.com/maricopacounty/status/1394753807045693442

This sums up well the general vibe/divide of the last two days... Two groups of elected officials, some from @maricopacounty, some from @AZSenateGOP, talking past one another and pushing competing narratives about this controversial election review.

https://twitter.com/JenAFifield/status/1394753473883766785

Co-sign, this is a much more reliable feed.

https://twitter.com/jeremyduda/status/1394755611707854848

The CyFIR founder is now referring to information the county "did not provide us" that could satisfy certain questions they have. I'm fairly certain the county would say, 'you didn't subpoena that.'

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1394757240318357505

.@AZSenateGOP's private firms walking back claims of 'deleted' databases.

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1394758857461682176

This did not go unnoticed by @maricopacounty:

https://twitter.com/maricopacounty/status/1394758285165613057

.@FannKfann now asking why this isn't done yet. The contract she signed with Cyber Ninjas expected it would be finished last week. When can we "button this up," Fann asks?

"By the end of June," according to Cyber Ninjas' Doug Logan.

Ending with a plea from Cyber Ninjas Doug Logan and CyFIR's Ben Cotton for admin passwords to Dominion Voting machines.

Only Dominion's contractors have those, and the company has already told the firms/@AZSenateGOP to go pound sand.

Closing comments from @votewarren, who praises this as the first "fully forensic" audit. Petersen says this will set a precedent and suggests it'll be replicated elsewhere.

@FannKfann, too, says she's been contacted from other states who say @AZSenateGOP is laying the groundwork for similar election reviews elsewhere throughout the country.

.@FannKfann laments all the extra costs for security at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. If the Senate's paying more then the $150K contract signed with Cyber Ninjas, I know a bunch of Arizona reporters who'd love to know how much...

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1394762427909033988

That's a wrap, y'all.