New tonight: Here’s who Cyber Ninjas says is paying for the audit.
Stop the Steal groups - including Patrick Byrne, OAN’s Christina Bobb, Sidney Powell, Attorney Matt DePerno - have contributed $5.7 million, according to Ninjas
Just deleted a tweet about America's Future because we aren't yet sure which group we are talking about here - multiple with the same name.
Just to clarify my earlier mistake - I should have been looking at the website provided by Cyber Ninjas, americasfuture.net, board chairman Mike Flynn.
I'll tweet a story in the morning with a few takeaways...
The leaders of the nonprofits funding the AZ election audit...
AZ Senate liaison to the election review tells us all this morning he is considering resigning. Other than that, though, he used @JamesTHarris interview this morning to get a few things out he has been holding back about:
We've been hearing from audit insiders for a while now that Cyber Ninjas withholds information from Bennett. Bennett confirms that this AM, and reveals that him being kept from entering Friday was "the tip of the iceberg"...
Transcribed:
His two examples:
1. He was concerned the Cyber Ninjas had no way to get an accurate count of duplicated ballots. He said when he was asked for an update on that he was told the workers were told: “Don’t share anything with Secretary Bennett”
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.