Arizona audit: More workers added but who s footing the bill is still unclear Staff Reports
Funding for the Arizona Senate-ordered audit of Maricopa County s general election ballots continues without transparency on who is footing the bill, or how much that bill is.
Ken Bennett, the Arizona Senate s liaison, said Wednesday that he doesn t know who is paying for the new workers or equipment being brought in to speed up the recount. He also said he doesn t know who is paying StratTech, the Scottsdale-based company that took over management of the recount this week after Pennsylvania-based Wake Technology Services, Inc. didn t renew its contract May 14.
A private Pennsylvania-based IT company hired to help conduct a partisan hand recount of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County last November has abandoned the effort.
Tech company running Arizona ballot recount backs out: They were done Jen Fifield and Andrew Oxford, Arizona Republic
The Pennsylvania-based IT company that was in charge of running the hand recount of Maricopa County ballots is no longer involved in the audit.
The contract with Wake Technology Services, Inc. ended May 14, the original completion date for the hand count, and the company chose not to renew its contract, according to Randy Pullen, an audit spokesperson and former state GOP chair. They were done, he said. They didn t want to come back.
Wake TSI was the subcontractor that developed and oversaw the procedures for recounting the county s nearly 2.1 million ballots, working under Cyber Ninjas, the state Senate s main contractor performing the overall audit of the county s general election results.