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For the past month, Arizonans have been tallying ballots from the 2020 presidential election — even though the ballots have been counted, verified, checked repeatedly, adjudicated nationwide and certified over and over again, for nearly seven months now. wapo.st/3oSDA4S
Last month, the Republican-led Arizona Senate took custody of all the nearly 2.1 million ballots from Maricopa County and then gave those ballots to a private company called Cyber Ninjas, a Florida cybersecurity firm that has never conducted an election audit.
Multiple checks have confirmed that Joseph R. Biden beat Donald J. Trump for the presidency. Every time, Trump die-hards have doubted the outcome, @MrDanZak writes. wapo.st/3oSDA4S "All you have left now is the crazies leading the crazi"It's unacceptable," said Grant Woods, a former Re"It's a clown-car farce," said Terry Goddard, a fo"We're in uncharted waters," said Tammy Patrick, a
Workers used UV light to check for watermarks that don’t exist. Cyber Ninjas anticipated an attack by left-wing militants that has not occurred. A former state representative who was on the ballot and at a Trump rally in D.C. on Jan. 6 was counting votes.
The audit was supposed to wrap May 14, but now it will end sometime in June, according to Cyber Ninjas, which is still operating under the $150,000 contract with the Senate. What will the audit really cost, though, and who’s paying for it? wapo.st/3oSDA4S

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