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.
Arizona audit: Recount of Maricopa County election restarts at coliseum Staff Reports
Ballot counting has resumed at Veterans Memorial Coliseum after a week-plus-long hiatus due to high school graduation ceremonies.
Before they paused, the effort had made it through about 500,000 of the 2.1 million ballots cast by Maricopa County voters. The counters now have about six weeks to finish the rest before their lease expires at the end of June.
The floor of the coliseum now has 44 tables set up for counting and 32 for ballot inspection, though just half of those were in use Monday morning. The effort will have to pick up considerable steam to complete the work over the next month.
Arizona audit: Recount of Maricopa County election packs up shop for now Staff Reports
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.