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May 17, 2021 6:04 p.m.
The board of supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizona railed against a review of the county’s 2020 election results ordered by the state Senate during a fiery board meeting Monday.
“As chairman of this board, I just want to make it clear: I will not be responding to any more requests from this sham process,” board Chairman Jack Sellers (R) said at the end of the meeting. “Finish what you’re calling an audit and be ready to defend your report in a court of law. We all look forward to it.”
Sellers and the rest of the board which is comprised of four Republicans and one Democrat were responding to a letter from Senate President Karen Fann last week in which Fann wrote that auditors had discovered “apparent omissions, inconsistencies, and anomalies relating to Maricopa County’s handling, organization, and storage of ballots,” among other issues.
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The floor of Veterans Memorial Coliseum was largely empty Friday after three weeks of people recounting Maricopa County s general election ballots.
They made it through just less than a quarter of the 2.1 million ballots in that time, despite originally planning to wrap up the Arizona Senate-ordered audit today.
Instead, the ballots and equipment are being hauled to the Wesley Bolin Building on the south end of the state fairgrounds, west of the cattle barns. After a week of high school graduations at the coliseum, the recount is expected to pick back up there on May 24 and run through June.
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The Arizona Senate-ordered audit of Maricopa County s general election will take a one-week hiatus at the end of the week to make way for high school graduations at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.
The plan is to move the ballots and equipment to another area of the Arizona State Fairgrounds on Friday and move back in May 23 to pick back up on May 24.
“We’ll stand aside and secure all the ballots and equipment here on the property and be ready to go when they’re finished,” said the state Senate s audit liaison Ken Bennett.
Jen Yee, assistant executive director at the Arizona State Fair and Exposition, confirmed the plan, but said nothing had been signed as of Monday.
An attorney for the Arizona Senate’s audit of Maricopa County’s election results is threatening subpoenas against the county Board of Supervisors if they don’t provide passwords for routers and voting machines.
Supervisor Steve Gallardo says the board has until the end of the weekend to provide the information, or they will face a subpoena.
Gallardo says if those responsible for the audit were able to access the voting machines, the county’s entire data system could be exposed.
“This does not pertain to the audit at hand, this could lead to sensitive information like healthcare and criminal justice records, Social Security numbers, this is personal, sensitive information that should be protected,” said Gallardo.