Oh forfvckssake you've got to be a professional troll. That's exactly what the Cyber Ninnies did - jumped up on a stump to say anything that would cast doubt, even though they knew they were lying or don't know what the fvck they are doing. It's one or the other and yes you are stupid. They conflated the early in-person ballots with the number of mail in ballots to come up with that 74,000 number and were immediately called out on it. They had no response because they knew they were wrong but they had already put it into the ether, where rubes like you gobble it up like MAGA moon pies. Here's the entire official statement.
NEW: AZ Senate leadership hired unqualified auditors with a lack of election knowledge and a wealth of political bias. The claims these contractors made in yesterday’s briefing to senators were not based in fact. We stand by our elections professionals and refute these claims below.
CLAIM: 74,000 more mail-in ballots were counted in Nov. 2020 than were sent.
FACTS: The
Maricopa County Elections Department calculated the true number of requests and returns:
REQUESTS = 2,364,426
RETURNS = 1,918,024
The claim is completely wrong. We don't know where Cyber Ninjas came up with that idea or number. Maricopa County provided additional details in this tweet:
https://twitter.com/maricop.../status/1415834656528764932...
CLAIM: More than 11,000 names were added to the voter rolls after Election Day but were recorded as casting a ballot in the Nov. election.
FACTS: This is likely referring to people who cast provisional ballots. 18,310 provisional ballots were cast in the 2020 General Election.
These go through a rigorous verification process to make sure that the provisional ballots cast are only counted if the voter is eligible to vote in the election. This happens after Election Day. Only eligible voters are added to the voter rolls.
Of note: 7,605 provisional ballots were rejected in the General Election due to the individual not being registered to vote.
Since the Senate contractors are unqualified and untrained for this work, it's tough to know exactly what data they're using to come up with numbers.
CLAIM: Maricopa County relaxed signature verification requirements.
FACTS: This is simply not true. Maricopa County follows rigorous state signature verification guidelines. Staff receives training prior to elections to ensure compliance.
In June 2020 prior to the Primary Election, all full-time staff members that perform signature verification in Maricopa County completed a statewide signature verification certification course offered by the Associated Forensic Laboratory, LLC.
CLAIM: Maricopa County’s Duplication process allowed illegitimate ballots to be counted.
FACTS: When ballots are delivered to Maricopa County from military voters, overseas voters, large print ballots, braille ballots, or when they are too damaged to be read by a tabulator, Maricopa County duplicates these ballots to ensure the votes can still be counted. The Elections Department assigns a matching serial number to both the original and duplicated ballot. This number can be used to compare the ballots.
The accuracy of Maricopa County’s duplication process was confirmed in court (CV2020-015282 Ward v. Jackson) where the plaintiffs randomly sampled 1,626 duplicated ballots.
Read the statement from Board of Supervisors Chairman, Jack Sellers:
https://content.govdelivery.com/.../AZM.../bulletins/2e852d0
Were over 74,000 more mail-in ballots received and counted than were mailed out for the 2020 election in Maricopa County,...
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