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24 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The Senate Cyber Ninja audit resumed today. Maricopa County is not a part of this audit and does not support it. To ensure election integrity, Maricopa County relies on best practices in auditing and the expertise of experienced professionals.
Read more: maricopacountyaz.medium.com/auditing-elect…
We hired nonpartisan, accredited firms to conduct two forensic audits. We would never work with an unaccredited, partisan firm like the Cyber Ninjas. Maricopa.gov/forensicaudit #NotOurAudit
After each election, our hand count audit is done with bipartisan teams appointed by county political party chairs. They are trained to review each vote. The Cyber Ninjas are not requiring unanimous counts. #NotOurAudit
We only allow ballots to be handled by bipartisan teams, which is what the law requires. Observers are invited to watch every step of the process. The Senate Cyber Ninja audit isn’t insisting on that. #NotOurAudit

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27 May
Audits that build trust are transparent. We know who's involved, what they will do, how they will deliver results, and how they will be paid.
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Maricopa County disclosed the true costs of the two independent audits we conducted and did not take private donations. There was a public vote, involving all five board members, authorizing the audits. The firms hired were known, experienced, and certified to do this work.
Their processes were spelled out in detailed scopes of work & did not change over the course of the audits. The auditors produced capstone reports following their work and did not share what they found prior.

The Arizona Senate's approach has been, well, different. #NotOurAudit
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24 May
The Board of Supervisors and our election professionals take election integrity seriously. Before, during, and after the 2020 General Election, they took many steps to ensure free and fair elections in Maricopa County, including:
-Performing an election audit in 2018 following issues stemming from the primary election: maricopa.gov/4987/2019-Elec…
-Entering into a new election operations agreement with the Recorder in 2019, providing more oversight to county elections: maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter…
-Investing in new equipment and staffing ahead of the 2020 elections.
-Appointing an experienced auditor as co-elections director.
-Sharing extensive plans with the public before each election: BeBallotReady.Vote
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19 May
One reason we can say #RealAuditorsDont operate like Cyber Ninjas & other Senate contractors is because we have an auditing department at the County. We know what a good audit looks like because we conduct them all the time.
maricopa.gov/1524/Internal-…
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Real auditors maintain independence and objectivity. This means that auditors should be unbiased and free from conflicts of interest... like conspiracy theorist CEOs or close ties to biased news orgs.
Real auditors adopt and follow a set of industry auditing standards. The most common standards for independent auditing firms are the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
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17 May
Maricopa County refutes lies about election audit in letter to @fannkfann. Bottom line:
-NO deleted files
-NO chain of custody issues
-We provided what they asked for except for routers, for security reasons
-“Auditors” trouble locating info we provided is THEIR problem

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Files: @ArizonaAudit falsely claimed that files were deleted from a County server. Here’s the truth. When the server was shut down on 4/12/20 for delivery to the Senate, the metadata on the files updated to the dates of the shutdown. Nothing was deleted. maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter…
From the Board’s letter to Senator Fann: “The failure of the Senate’s so-called ‘auditors’ to locate files on a copy they made of the County’s server speaks more to their ineptitude than it does to the integrity of our dedicated employees…”
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14 May
The 2020 elections were run w/ integrity, the results certified by the county & state were accurate, & the 2 independent audits conducted by the County are the true final word on the subject. We know auditing. The Senate Cyber Ninja audit is not a real audit. #azsenateaudit
#RealAuditorsDont: Release false “conclusions” without understanding what they are looking at. @MaricopaVote did not delete tabulation data. Board will lay out facts in Monday meeting. Read Chairman @jacksellers statement here: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AZMAR… #AZSenateAudit Image
#RealAuditorsDont: Hire known conspiracy theorists: azcentral.com/story/news/pol… #AZSenateAudit Image
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