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16 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Hey 👋 I’m back #azauditpool Image
I see 4-5 ballot counting tables still operating, so recount continues

~50 inspection tables

And 5 teams of two people each sorting ballots in some way. Not sure what they are doing there. ImageImageImage
They have changed their ballot storage system since last time I was here. Last week, this cage was almost empty, and it has always held the ballots that hadn’t been touched yet. Now, it has ballots that already have their colored tape on it indicating they have been counted. Image
Woman in red shirt/black vest has been taking boxes from that cage, looking through them and then bringing them back.

The guy to the left of her in the black shirt is flipping ballots over from a box, maybe counting them.

Will update you if I learn why they are doing this.

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16 Jun
Here's the latest on the Arizona election audit, from spokesperson Randy Pullen:

Pullen says that the official ballot hand count wrapped up Monday, other than braille ballots (fewer than 100).

The counting we are seeing still happening is one of two things ...

#azauditpool
1. They are going back and recounting some boxes as a sampling method, to compare to the original count.

2. They are reviewing boxes where discrepancies were noted in original count, such as duplicate ballots w/o matching originals, or boxes w/ unexpected number of ballots.
Arizona election audit ballot recount & inspection is estimated to be complete by Saturday, June 26, Pullen said. The coliseum lease ends June 30.

No estimate from Pullen on how many ballots left to inspect. 15-20 pallets still have boxes on them, out of 46 total. #azauditpool
Read 4 tweets
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16 Jun
Watermarks? Not anymore.
Bamboo? Maybe never.

So what exactly are Cyber Ninjas’ workers looking for on our ballots under at their microscopes as the AZ election review continues?

I was able to piece together a few things... azcentral.com/story/news/pol… (subscribers only)
Here’s the four parts of the ballot they are looking at:
🗳The filled-in oval in the presidential race
🎯 A bullseye symbol on the top-right hand corner.
‼️The top center of the ballot that shows directions to voters.
❌A crop mark on the very top left corner of the ballot.
A few things:

Can’t figure out why they are looking at the last two.

Bullseye alignment doesn’t dictate whether machine can read ballot, so no reason that I know to look at that.

Will be interested to see if they find that any ovals were not filled in by humans?
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9 Jun
A few more #azauditpool updates before I am kicked out at 1.

Randy Pullen says that more than 1.7M of 2.1M ballots have been counted.
Randy Pullen is giving a tour to:

Vernon Jones, candidate for Georgia governor

with him are his chief of staff Heather Wallace and Bernard Kerik, former NYC police commissioner during Giuliani’s term.
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones gave a press conference about an hour ago. He got confrontational with me when asked if he would support an audit that was being funded by Democrats and workers recruited by Democrats. I will share clips here
Read 6 tweets
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9 Jun
One more update for #azauditpool... I saw @AZKellyT in the press box giving an interview with @christina_bobb. I asked her to talk and she said she would only talk about federal-only voting, which she believes need to be changed in Arizona.
I will put the transcript of that interview in the press pool notes. Basically, she says that people who vote on the "federal only" ballot should have to provide more identification to prove that they can vote. Says current law makes it easy for them to vote under fake name.
Townsend said this audit is not separating federal-only ballots for inspection. She said she wasn't here to visit the audit but to give an interview with @christina_bobb about federal-only voting.
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9 Jun
Here's a few more updates for the #azauditpool, from Randy Pullen:

They are focused more on the ballot inspection now. They have 24 more empty ballot inspection tables with equipment and workers coming either later today or tomorrow. That would add to 32 going right now.
They are inspecting about 80,000 ballots a day. They have estimated they need to inspect about 60,000 a day to make it by the June 30 deadline.

I committed a cardinal sin & forgot to ask how many they had counted & inspected as of today. Will ask if Randy comes back, he might.
We talked a lot about what they are doing at the paper inspection tables. I know for sure:
- They are looking at the filled-in bubble for the presidential race to see whether it was filled in by a machine or human.
- They are looking at the edge of the ballot...
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9 Jun
I’m back at the coliseum as the pool reporter this morning. Very apparent that there has been a shift since last week from focusing on counting to focusing on ‘inspecting.’ #azauditpool
@JanPostmaUSA is here in the press box, too. He works for Dutch media orgs. Everybody send your welcome. This is definitely gaining international attention the last few weeks.
There are 20 counting tables up and running.

There are 29 inspecting tables up and running.

There are 9 orange shirt observers and I don't see anyone from the Secretary of State's office this morning. #azauditpool
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