Grand Canyon Times

A controversial third party audit of the Maricopa County 2020 presidential election results has created more questions in the minds of some observers. 

The audit has revealed that more information will be necessary in order to determine the results of the 2020 election in the county. The audit, which has drawn much criticism from both sides of the aisle, has been called hyper-partisan and unprofessional. Now the audit team is requesting more information in order to sufficiently conclude their investigation. 

AZCentral reports that, in a July 15 detailing the Maricopa County election audit, Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) argued that her colleagues in the legislature require more data from Maricopa County to conclude their 2021 audit. Fann also indicated that obtaining this data may have to be done in court. Senate contractors also suggested canvassers go door-to-door to determine who participated in the 2020 election.

The CEO of the company performing the audit has expressed a desire to go door-to-door to audit the vote and participation in the election, adding, “Based on the data we’re seeing, I highly recommend we do the canvassing because it’s the one way to know for sure whether the data we’re seeing are real problems.”

Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, which is directing the Arizona audit, recently told KAWC news there were 74,243 separate mail-in ballots received by Maricopa election offices "where there is no clear record of them being sent.” He also said that 11,326 individuals who did not show up on the voter rolls documents the day after the election but did so on Dec. 4. County voter rolls also showed that nearly 4,000 people were listed as having registered to vote after Oct. 15, which was the cutoff date, Logan said.

Election observer Kenneth Sampson appears to support the efforts to gain more insight into the election results.

“Hypothetically, an individual could replace/extract alternate ballots in storage," she said. "And as long as the totals equal the same amount upon arrival at the imager or the collective bin, there would be no way to demonstrate that the same ballots that were isolated by the tabulator were the same ballots that eventually were imaged and finalized.”

In a hotly contested presidential election, the Grand Canyon Times reported that Joe Biden was the first Democrat to win Maricopa County since Harry Truman in 1948. Biden was also the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Arizona since Bill Clinton in 1996.