Thread by @JenAFifield

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.

3. Professional auditors NEVER release findings before concluding their investigation.

Need I mention, The Tweet?

https://twitter.com/ArizonaAudit/status/1392656033496006656?s=20

4. Many professional auditors have professional certificates. Election auditors have experience in their field.

Other than Cyber Ninjas' involvement in the 2020 Michigan court case audit, we haven't able to find any professional auditing experience among the companies involved.

Through reporting on this story, I learned that former AZ GOP Chairman Randy Pullen, the new audit spokesman, is a professional auditor by trade.

He believes this is absolutely an audit. And a forensic one, at that.

So what will I call it in future stories?

Since the word "audit" may be a bit in the eye of the beholder, I still feel comfortable using the word.

Also got some good synonyms to use: review, examination, investigation.

No, I won't be calling it #fraudit.