Morning! I’m your pool reporter today. I took some time away this weekend so I’m trying to get all caught up and will report back soon! #azauditpool
What questions do you have about the Arizona election audit? Ask here :)
There are 25 counting tables and 15 inspection tables going right now.
One of my first questions of course is how many ballots they have counted, and how many "inspected."

They have been going for 32.5 days as of end of day yesterday. This tweet indicates they were half way through 2.1 million as of sometime last week.

They have 26 days left in their lease, which ends June 30 (including today, and not including the last day for packing).

Next question I have is whether there is a third shift scheduled today.
I see 10 orange shirt observers on the floor right now. This is fewer than there were originally.

(What is an observer though if they aren’t making sure they are equally representing all political parties?)
I used to recognize many observers from that first day. Now, I recognize none.

I believe one of the former observers is serving as a ballot "inspector" now. Can't say for sure though.

"Inspector" in quotes because still no clear answer about what they are doing there.
Just overheard @christina_bobb next to me, doing @OANN live broadcast, say that state lawmakers from Pennsylvania are coming to the coliseum to watch the audit.

Speaking of other states replicating this...
#azauditpool need help remembering something. Weren’t there big screens added over the tally entry table, where count is being entered into computers, and multiple people watching in a huddle? Not anymore? @votinggeek @Garrett_Archer @JerodMacEvoy @jeremyduda
When @votinggeek observed in beginning, she called attention to the high chance of errors if there was no one watching over this process.

These tables enter in count from each tally sheet onto spreadsheet that serves as official count. One mistake here could change the count.

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2 Jun
The ballot hand count is getting so much attention but there's so much more to this audit like "copies of voting system data was sent to a lab in Montana"

what lab?
what data?
who has access?
what protections are there to secure that network?

azsos.gov/about-office/m…
Alright, here's my wormhole for tonight, Twitter. Montana. We know that CyFIR is one of Cyber Ninja's subcontractors and CEO Ben Cotton is the one that made the "deleted files" claim.

This lists Cotton as CEO of CyTech Services in Big Fork, Montana.
cytechservices.com/contact/
Bigfork is a vacationers hub of Kalispell, in northern Montana. Fairly remote, lots of cabins. I was there like 3 years ago for a reporting project talking about how lots of people are moving there because it's pretty.
pewtrusts.org/en/research-an…
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1 Jun
People of twitter to me: 📢📢📢 Stop calling this an audit! It's not an audit!

Me: Hey professional auditors, is this an audit?

Answer:
azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
MOST (but not all!) auditors I spoke to said this should not be called an audit. Here's their main points.

1. For professional auditors, objectivity is 'basis for the credibility'

This audit is not objective. It is partisan.
2. The auditors have what they need for a full and proper investigation.

The county has refused to give the Senate's contractors with information they themselves have said was crucial to the investigation.
Read 7 tweets
1 Jun
I'm the #azauditpool reporter this morning. I just got many updates from Ken Bennett and Randy Pullen. Here's the latest on the Arizona election audit:
As of Saturday, they say they counted half of the county's 2.1 million ballots.

There will be a third shift of counting for the first time tonight, from 8 p.m. to 1 p.m. There will be fewer volunteers for this shift than the others.
They say that yesterday, on Memorial Day, they counted the most number of ballots they have ever counted in a day.

When I asked how many, they said they wouldn't tell me ... That's "confidential information" for the contractors.

I pressed them on this...
Read 9 tweets
23 May
New: Being told this morning that Ken Bennett will no longer be handing media for Arizona election audit. Instead, Senators @FannKfann and @warrenpetersen, who have typically not been inside the coliseum and taking procedural questions. #azauditpool
...
This morning @KyungLahCNN and her team were given a phone number by the security lead we refer to as Cowboy Hat Andy because he won’t give us his name. Told that’s the new media number.

Yet in typical audit fashion when I called Ken Bennett about this...
Bennett answered his phone this morning and told me he had not heard about this new setup.

Then I called the number I was given and Randy Pullen, former AZ GOP chair who has been involved in the audit, answered. Pullen...
Read 20 tweets
23 May
Just got to my home away from home, which has now been described in national media as not just ‘decrepit’ but also ‘suburban’ ‘aging’ and a ‘basketball arena.’

I’ll tweet today as they move the ballots back in here from a storage building. Graduations are over. #azauditpool
Here’s the building that has stored the ballots and machines for the last nine days. Watch the inside of this building and the coliseum at a audit.org
The most important news today is that the CNN videographer just mistook me for a broadcast reporter. And to that I say
Read 9 tweets
18 May
ICYMI: Maricopa County's supervisors are officially angry. Calling the election audit a "grift" and a "circus" and telling @FannKfann to end it.

Here's my initial story & I'm going to thread the 😳 parts of the letter azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
"The Arizona Senate is held up to ridicule in every corner of the globe."
"We cannot give you a password that we do not possess any more than we can give you the formula for Coca Cola."
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