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17 Sep, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Last winter, Fulton County, Penn., carried out “audits” of its election results, becoming a testing ground for an effort that spread to other states. This week, county officials were ordered to begin releasing "audit" records in response to our records requests. #FoiaFriday
Fulton’s “audits” in Dec. 2020 and Feb. 2021, backed by pro-Trump Sen. Doug Mastriano and others, were conducted by the company Wake TSI — which worked as a contractor to a nonprofit operated by Sidney Powell, who represented Trump in election challenges.
azmirror.com/2021/05/24/gro…
A few months later, Wake TSI joined the “audit” team in Arizona led by Cyber Ninjas, where it was in charge of counting ballots cast in Maricopa County.
azmirror.com/blog/wake-tsi-…
In July, Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state decertified voting machines in Fulton County after Wake TSI conducted the partisan ballot review.
washingtonpost.com/politics/penns…
That month, we sent public records requests to Fulton County to shed light on the review process.

We asked Fulton County’s technology director for communications regarding the county’s inspection of election equipment.
americanoversight.org/document/recor…
We asked the Fulton County elections director and the Board of Commissioners for communications with external entities, including Powell, Mastriano, and figures linked to audit efforts or election challenges in Arizona and across the country.
americanoversight.org/document/recor…
After Fulton County refused to release the records, we filed an administrative appeal. This week, the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records completely rejected the county’s arguments and ordered the county to release the records to us within 30 days.
americanoversight.org/pennsylvania-c…
We have been investigating efforts in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, & other states to promote false claims of election fraud, advance new voting restrictions, & undermine faith in democratic institutions. Read more here:
americanoversight.org/from-voter-fra…

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18 Sep
ARIZONA “AUDIT” LAWSUIT UPDATE: Cyber Ninjas — the lead contractor in the Arizona Senate’s “audit” — indicated it does not intend to release the bulk of its “audit” records until after its much-delayed report is completed.
americanoversight.org/cyber-ninjas-t…
We’ve been fighting for the release of key documents related to the “audit,” and multiple courts have ruled that files in the possession of Cyber Ninjas are public records and must be released to the public.
On Tuesday, after the Arizona Supreme Court effectively upheld those rulings, the Senate wrote to Cyber Ninjas and requested that the company turn over the documents in question to the Senate.
americanoversight.org/arizona-suprem…
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17 Sep
This week, we’re breaking down the Big Lie. So far, we’ve covered the years of voter-fraud activism that laid its foundation, attempts to stop the certification of the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 attack, & new voting-restriction bills. Today, let’s talk about sham election reviews.
While state legislators have worked to make it harder to access the ballot box, Trump and his supporters have been finding new ways to relitigate the results of the 2020 election, most notably with a sham “audit” of the results in Arizona.
americanoversight.org/from-voter-fra…
I: Arizona. Soon after the election, the Arizona Senate, led by Senate President Karen Fann, subpoenaed Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county, for images of mail-in ballots, voting equipment, and other documents.
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17 Sep
Arizona isn’t the only state conducting an unnecessary, partisan ballot review.

In Wisconsin, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos hired retired state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to oversee an investigation of the state’s election results.
americanoversight.org/investigation/…
In late August, the price tag for the investigation ballooned to nearly $680,000, and news reports indicated that Reince Priebus, who had led the state’s Republican Party before serving as RNC chair & then Trump’s chief of staff, was involved in conversations about its planning.
This taxpayer money is going toward investigation leader Michael Gableman’s travel, including his visit to the Arizona “audit.”
wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/09/03/tax…
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16 Sep
LEGAL UPDATE: In a court hearing in our public records lawsuit today, the attorney for the Arizona Senate revealed that Cyber Ninjas had not yet turned over documents to the Senate as of this morning, despite this week’s court ruling:
We’re suing for the public release of records related to Arizona’s “audit" of 2020 election ballots cast in Maricopa County. The Arizona Senate had argued that documents held by contractor Cyber Ninjas were not public records, but multiple courts have now ruled in our favor.
The judge ordered the Senate to provide a status report by 5pm AZ time Friday on:
-What documents it has received from Cyber Ninjas
-The timeframe for when it expects to receive all documents
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16 Sep
This week, we’re doing a deep dive on the “Big Lie.” We’ve already discussed the years of voter-fraud activism that laid its foundation, attempts to stop the certification of the 2020 election, and the Jan. 6 attack. Today, we’re talking about new voting-restriction bills.
President Trump’s consistent lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him through widespread fraud fueled a wave of restrictive voting laws across the country, aimed in part at turning back advances to voting access that had led to record turnout.
americanoversight.org/from-voter-fra…
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, during the 2021 legislative session state lawmakers in 49 states introduced 400 bills aimed at restricting voting access, and 30 such laws were enacted in 18 states.
brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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16 Sep
As Arizona’s “audit” has devolved into an embarrassing farce, many state and national Republicans have distanced themselves from it. Records we obtained, reported on by @andykroll at @RollingStone, show the involvement of senior GOP figures.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
The article uses the records we’ve obtained via public records requests and litigation to provide a detailed look at how top Republican officials pushed for the ballot review in Arizona’s Maricopa County and aided it once it was underway.
“That outreach from GOP high-ups, combined with angry constituents who’d bought into Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ about a stolen election, goaded Arizona Republican lawmakers into launching the ‘audit’ in early 2021,” Andy Kroll writes.
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