Yesterday, The Gateway Pundit ran an “article” saying some audit results were coming Monday. Shared widely. Then someone claiming to be involved in the audit repeated it in front of a crowd.
This is inaccurate. No results will be released until a final report, maybe in August.
This is why trusting credible sources is important. The Gateway Pundit is not a journalism outlet.
Now, I say this using Ken Bennett Senate liaison and Randy Pullen audit spokesperson as my sources.
But very possibly, people working inside the audit could leak some preliminary results. Remember the audit account tweeted about ‘spoliation of evidence’ already.
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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.