Alaska lawmaker visits site of partisan Arizona audit
June 9, 2021
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) An Alaska lawmaker said he plans to use his legislative office account to pay for a trip to Arizona to visit a partisan audit of the 2020 election.
Rep. David Eastman, a Wasilla Republican, told the Anchorage Daily News the trip was on behalf of his constituents and said he wasn t aware of any other Alaska legislators attending. Some legislators from other states, including Pennsylvania, have recently attended.
The Alaska Legislature is in a special session, though floor and committee action has been limited as negotiators try to reach a budget deal.
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Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on May 24, 2021.
A controversial review of 2020 election results in Maricopa County resumed on Monday after a one-week hiatus.
Workers at color-coded tables in matching color-coded shirts began again the process of recounting, by hand, votes cast for president and U.S. Senate. Others took pictures of ballots using cameras suspended above tables inside Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the state fairground in Phoenix.
It was more of the same for the beleaguered audit, ordered by Republican state senators who say they’re responding to doubts about the recent election, and perhaps quell those concerns. Instead, the audit has captured the attention of Donald Trump’s supporters nationwide as well as the former president himself who’ve seized on the audit as evidence the election was stolen nearly six mo
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The company hired to audit the results of the Maricopa County elections in Arizona is walking back its charge that the county deleted a "directory full of databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit."