Arizona Senate on the verge of beginning major audit of Maricopa County ballots
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/arizona-senate-verge-beginning-major-audit-maricopa-county-ballots
"It's taken the Senate two and a half months to win in court to uphold our right to issue subpoenas for election materials," she said, "and another 6 weeks of researching to select the audit team to perform the full forensic audit."
Fann claimed that state Republicans have faced "sabotage" from Maricopa County's Board of Supervisors.
"The Maricopa BOS has refused to allow us to perform the audit at their facilities," she said, "and has gone so far as to refusing to even answer simple questions such as 'how are the ballots sequestered?'"
The Senate recently "secured a 20,000 + square foot facility known as the Coliseum at our state fair grounds to perform the audit," Fann said. Officials have "arranged for 24 hour physical and live streaming security," she added, and "the audit teams are assembling and transporting the equipment and personnel to Arizona with an expected start date of April 22nd."
Asked what the Senate hopes to find, Fann denied any presumptions on the part of legislators as to how the audit will go.
"The Arizona Senate and the auditors have no 'expectations' of findings," she said. "We are performing the full forensic audit to either dispel our voters concerns or, if a problem is uncovered, we must fix the problems before the next election."