No legitimate reason for Arizona audit: Maricopa County s GOP recorder No legitimate reason for audit: Arizona recorder
Replay Video UP NEXT Arizona s partisan audit of Maricopa County s 2.1 million ballots restarted on Monday, as county officials seek litigation over ballot handling and potential defamation. Stephen Richer, the Republican recorder in charge of administering Maricopa County s elections, has started speaking out against the process, and said Monday on ABC News Live s The Breakdown, that there was no legitimate reason that would have prompted this audit. It s happening, not because the evidence merits it, Richer told ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran. All the tests came back clean. The parties themselves oversaw the hand-count auditing of 47,000 plus votes. MORE: Election audits let GOP replay 2020 grievances: The Note